A central Australian cattle station has decided to start trucking camels off the property to manage numbers, selling the animals to contractors.

Aileron Station, about 135 kilometres north of Alice Springs, recently trapped about 35 camels, which were then trucked to a multi-species abattoir in South Australia.

Feral camels are a common sight on many stations in the red centre, and pastoralists are required to control the populations, which often results in culling.

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But for Aileron Pastoral holdings, the business decided it made more sense to sell the animals.

Aileron Station trucks about 35 feral camels off the property, to be sent to a southern abattoir. ( Supplied: Aileron Pastoral Holdings )

Leading hand Carlene Robertson said when she was not mustering she did the bore runs on the station, and often had to repair damage from the camels.

"I see it all the time. They just completely wreck the fences," she said.

"They don't see the fences, so they break three or four barbs at a time, bend all the pickets, which makes our job a lot longer."

Although the money made from the camels was not a lot, according to Ms Robertson mustering the animals was worth it because it saved time and labour down the track.

"For the time fixing fences and other damages, it's well worth the effort," she said.

Lessons in loading camels

Ms Robertson said the camels had been easy enough to trap because it was dry at the moment and they came into the yards looking for water.

However, handling the camels to then be trucked out was another story.

"They trapped with our other cattle, then we put our cattle off and we had the camels in the back yards, [but] it was very difficult trying to move them into the front yards," she said.

"We did try to split the bulls from the cows and the calves, and that was very difficult, but we did eventually get them on the truck some four hours later.

"I guess because they're so much higher than us, they just walk straight over the top of you [and] they don't even see you.

"We did find that having a couple of rags on the end of our waddys [long sticks] at their head height worked lot better, but they still just walked straight over the top of you."

Feral camels were trapped along with the cattle on Aileron Station during the recent muster. ( ABC Rural: Katrina Beavan )

Ms Roberston estimated there would be hundreds of camels on the property, and numbers would be increasing all the time as the animals bred.

As for tips for other stations looking to truck camels out, she said there were some things to keep in mind.

"Only put two or three up into the force yard at once, and then try and push them up the loading ramp from there.

"You can't push a mob into the force yard like cattle and then try and push them all up because it just doesn't work. They just go around and around in circles."

Ms Robertson said in the time she had been on Aileron, this was only the second lot of camels to be moved off the property.

She said if interest for the camels continued, the property would look at trucking out camels three times a year or when mustering was happening.