Thread: Pheasant release

Went for a drive up a local forestry road today actually looking for a pig. Young cock pheasants everywhere, would have come across 20-30 over a couple of k/m. Were bloody tame, most couldn't fly proper. wish who ever did the release had enough energy to have taken them a few k/m up a road with a locked gate.

Those little buggers can cover some ground. You don't lock them in when you release them, once there out there out.
Not everyone has the luxury of having a release pen that is away from the road. Our one is within 300meters.
We do all we can to try and hold them with food and cover for as long as we can, but sooner our later they want to play on the zebra crossing you just have to give them plenty of CLEAN water food and cover and roosting sights and most will come home for the night. You can only try

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Those little buggers can cover some ground. You don't lock them in when you release them, once there out there out.
Not everyone has the luxury of having a release pen that is away from the road. Our one is within 300meters.
We do all we can to try and hold them with food and cover for as long as we can, but sooner our later they want to play on the zebra crossing you just have to give them plenty of CLEAN water food and cover and roosting sights and most will come home for the night. You can only try

was back there yesterday, still tame, just squat on the track when their approached. Don't know if their getting fed or having to fend for themselves. It's an area that I've never seen a gamebird hunter in even though there is plenty of mature birds there.

Good place for a release then