pheasant shelter

patakadarragh

i am trying to come up with a design for a shelter for pheasants and thought id ask ye lads what materials ye used,dimensions etc.

thanks:)

EPointer=Birdss

My laying pen. Old atificial xmas tree branches entwined together makes a roost under the green mesh. Other then that few sheets of galvanize on it's side here & there & they have survived the finest...

patakadarragh

thanks i see what u mean what way did u wind the xmas tree branches together coz ive got a few artificial trees ...might give it a try
thanks

EPointer=Birdss

patakadarragh wrote: »

thanks i see what u mean what way did u wind the xmas tree branches together coz ive got a few artificial trees ...might give it a try
thanks

I changed it this year & made a triangle frame of tree branches as you look from above say (plan view)
Ran horizontals close enough that one artificial branch would reach at an angle to another side & just started knitting em together.
In the end I made 2 levels of this & they often roost beween the 2 or between the top one & the roof mesh.
No rocket science in it tbh. You'll need actual tree branches for the perches themselves. The xmas tree ones are only for shelter really...

mallards

I made a few of these shelters inside my release pens. When the birds first go in they shelter under the tin during the day if it rains. The wooden rails then fixed to the posts is to start them roosting as they develop there wings. Within a week of that they are roosting in the lower branches of trees and hawthorns out of shot on the left of the second picture.





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jap gt

im very new the keeping pheasants, how do ye release them, do ye leave them leave and return to the encloser when they want. are they the bars for a green house in the first picture

patakadarragh

thanks mallards and epointer i will start building next weekend.Ill see how it goes.

moan 77

Hey nice photo's make my set up look like the poor relation must make some improvments soon, so good idea's here, i was in the same boat 4 years ago when i started found what i needed on the net and made up my mind what they ment.

EPointer=Birdss

jap gt wrote: »

im very new the keeping pheasants, how do ye release them, do ye leave them leave and return to the encloser when they want. are they the bars for a green house in the first picture

I use an open top run for release. (Have to keep an eye on the arial predators)

It has trees in it & this way they roost in it like Mallards said.
Once they're old enough they start to move off but come back for weeks to roost. Slowly this number decreases until they roost in the wild.
Great thing is I found they don't venture a huge distance from the release site. Was some site this season gone when 40-50 cocks would get up crowing as they flew up the roost within 10 minutes of each other! Could see the ones eyeing a branch - crouching & off they'd go, half the time missing the branch & falling back down! They got better with practice!

Fact less & less came back also coincided with fact half em are shot I suppose & the other half are the one's clever enough not to get shot & these ones become wild wild birds & avoid people!;)

Oh & a tip - If feeding pellets mesh the runs with smallest mesh you can get. I lose a bag a week to starlings & sparrows! Have to sort that out this year. 40 quid or so a month last year to feed a flock of em! :mad:

Double Barrel

As can be seen by the other posters, necessity is the mother of invention.
The OWHTBO is forever wondering why we stop for stuff in the oddest places.
Sorry about the quality of some of these, taken with an old phone.

mallards

That last roosters a beauty!
They are magnificent birds.




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corco2000

This is one thing I plan on doing n the future, rearing pheasantsto release. I think they a re the most beutiful looking bird. That last pic explains what I mean, I have a paddock put aside for them for next year, gona get my chickenwire/ mesh sorted. Must be annoying though when You rear and release and then you hear a BANG BANG in the distance and say ' there goes another one'?? great pix, thanks