pheasan advert

Alchemist2

Anyone seen Aidan Wogans advert on done deal.. its like watchin the crows and gulls on the local landfill site except its all pheasants... a field of dreams:D

landkeeper

disgusting and imoral imho

bazza888

why?the dogs chasing them?im asking as i dont pheasant shoot,itought all the clubs brought up and realeased pheasants!driving down the road the other day there was 5-10 female pheasants ithink very small birds at side of the road some body must be rearing them nearby.

landkeeper

it'll be abused is why ,its fine releasing birds onto ground in july and august , looking after them and making sure they are fed watered etc for shooting to start in november but advertising them for release in october when the season starts in nov is going to be abused by lazy lads who want a quick return for the few quid they spend
the take up for poults must have been slow this year is what i think
but that's just my opinion

bazza888

as in they should be sold before season starts and are smaller?the birds i saw the other day were very small females would these be shot or left to grow?

landkeeper

well hen pheasants arn't normally shot
no i just think there should be a minimum time lenth between release and the start of the shooting season and a month is not enough in my book
in some countries it's illegal to move live game birds within so many days of the season

bazza888

ok cool!i didnt know that!will released pheasants reproduce naturally in the wild with any sucess?

Dusty87

Didnt see the add but i got birds off aidan last year or year before and they were great birds. Flew like i dont know wat. Got birds of a fella here, closer to home this year and they are great birds but may give him a buzz for a few more.

landkeeper

im not disputing the quality of the birds the bloke has a great reputation and the birds will fly and be well feathered and strong but it will be abused by some and released within a few days of the start of the season

mallards

bazza888 wrote: »

as in they should be sold before season starts and are smaller?the birds i saw the other day were very small females would these be shot or left to grow?

They might not have been females. Young poults are a similar colour to hen birds so are often confused as being hens. All game should be shot when they are in their adult plumage. I came across a wild brood of 13 young last weekend. They were only a week or two old and won't be ready for shooting until mid December if the foxes, crows, stoats, bad weather doesn't get them before then!

Mallards

Dusty87

landkeeper wrote: »

im not disputing the quality of the birds the bloke has a great reputation and the birds will fly and be well feathered and strong

no landkeeper i didnt mean to attack your post. I was just sayin his birds are good is all. I released 15 the other day. Such an amount what?

bazza888

about a mile away everyevening there would be 7 or 8 big males just picking round the fresh cut grass at side of the road aswell,i dont see them anymore now.they were very nice looking birds.They might be poults allright they were very small.

landkeeper

no offence taken dusty he is actually taking quite a big gamble letting them out and hoping he can catch up again to sell

Dusty87

landkeeper wrote: »

no offence taken dusty he is actually taking quite a big gamble letting them out and hoping he can catch up again to sell

oh thats what its about. I didn check add. Feckin mobile internet. He has pens the whole way down his shed, more out the back. Seen the 'released to wild, caught to order' adds. I got mine from the pens. Once released, is it not dodgy ground catchin them again??

mairtd

bazza888 wrote: »

ok cool!i didnt know that!will released pheasants reproduce naturally in the wild with any sucess?

Pheasants hatched from any incubator and such don't tend to be as good at bringing out their own clutch of chicks. They don't have the instinct to sit on the eggs and hatch them out or brood the chicks that they would have learned from their mother. We try and hatch out as many under clocking hens as possible and use the incubator as only a back-up, the chicks tend to be better to.

bazza888

ok thanks love learning stuff here