Get your pheasants off my land!

[HolzKopf]

Walking back from the barns tonight I met a woman on the footpath that runs along one of our tracks who told me she has written to the local estate and the parish council to complain about pheasants (from the estate) trespassing in her field and garden. She has a couple of acres that she tops off which is basically a refuge now for 'wildlife' no thistles or ragwort but she's keen on barn owls, hedgehogs, songbirds etc. She is slightly eccentric in the nicest possible way but means well and is a country widowed woman.

Luckily my walk along that path is fairly short, buts she is serious. She dislikes shooting, abhors the fact that they are bred for 'slaughter' (I didn't tell her we've got pheasant casserole and sauté potatoes for supper tonight ) and says that they are eating the seed she puts out for the songbirds. She's firmly of the belief that her fencing is fit for purpose but the birds fly over it and it's the responsibility of those who reared them to control them (they do but miss a lot )

I don't subscribe to her train of thought, we have plenty in our own fields and part and parcel of our life but it's an interesting viewpoint.....

 

[Exfarmer]

Pheasants are wildbirds and if she is p*****d off with them she has the answer in her hands. Just like the f******* pigeons in my garden. The odd pheasant relaxing here , after a hard day's work teasing the guns is welcome here

 

[Lincs Lass]

She should be thankful it's only a few pheasants,,we get these dam things all day

 

[powerontheland]

She should be thankful it's only a few pheasants,,we get these dam things all day

Horrible screechy barsteward things.............

 

[jonnieboy]

Hmm I wonder how long the wild birds argument would last if she was shooting every bird that flew over the fence

 

[steveR]

She should be thankful it's only a few pheasants,,we get these dam things all day

Now those are a fahkin' PITA.... make a few pheasants look like sparrows as regards nuisance value!

 

[steveR]

Walking back from the barns tonight I met a woman on the footpath that runs along one of our tracks who told me she has written to the local estate and the parish council to complain about pheasants (from the estate) trespassing in her field and garden. She has a couple of acres that she tops off which is basically a refuge now for 'wildlife' no thistles or ragwort but she's keen on barn owls, hedgehogs, songbirds etc. She is slightly eccentric in the nicest possible way but means well and is a country widowed woman.

Luckily my walk along that path is fairly short, buts she is serious. She dislikes shooting, abhors the fact that they are bred for 'slaughter' (I didn't tell her we've got pheasant casserole and sauté potatoes for supper tonight ) and says that they are eating the seed she puts out for the songbirds. She's firmly of the belief that her fencing is fit for purpose but the birds fly over it and it's the responsibility of those who reared them to control them (they do but miss a lot )

I don't subscribe to her train of thought, we have plenty in our own fields and part and parcel of our life but it's an interesting viewpoint.....

She needs a spaniel who can go out and clear the pheasants off....

New one on me mind, pheasants trespassing!!

 

[Av Gorritt]

She should be thankful it's only a few pheasants,,we get these dam things all day

Yes , and so do we . Thankfully though , it's only a breeding trio of pea fowl , and as long as they stay away from the cars , they aren't too much of a problem .

 

[Al R]

She should be thankful it's only a few pheasants,,we get these dam things all day

What’s the rules on peacocks?

 

[Doing it for the kids]

She should be thankful it's only a few pheasants,,we get these dam things all day

Horrible screechy barsteward things.............

Yes , and so do we . Thankfully though , it's only a breeding trio of pea fowl , and as long as they stay away from the cars , they aren't too much of a problem .

and to think you lot all tried to persuade me to get some!

I went for guinea fowl who are a lot more chilled out, if a bit dense

 

[Lincs Lass]

What’s the rules on peacocks?

20 minutes per pound I think ,,,ooops sorry ,thought you ment cooking them ,,,These have got parish council protection ,,any harm comes to them would result in a witch hunt .

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Horrible screechy barsteward things.............

But they taste bloody lovely!!

 

[hendrebc]

I can see her point. I have a friend who regularly loses a significant amount of his forage crops to pheasants and any time I put a creep feeder out I end up with a million pheasants stealing the lamb pellets out of them. They used to follow me around with the snacker feeding ewes as well eating ewe nuts.
If your not the one that shoots them then pheasants are a bloody pest. The odd one is fine but you can get hundreds of the barstewards if your near a commercial shoot. Luckily our neighbouring gamekeeper is pretty good at getting them back as best he can.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

and to think you lot all tried to persuade me to get some!

I went for guinea fowl who are a lot more chilled out, if a bit dense

Guinea fowl are just hilarious. Every few years I have a moment and throw a few out with the pheasants. By the following spring they are firmly moved into the cattle sheds. Nothing like checking a calving cow at stupid o clock and the torch spooking 6 G-Fowl. Jesus! I near shat myself the first time they went off on me!!

 

[czechmate]

Walking back from the barns tonight I met a woman on the footpath that runs along one of our tracks who told me she has written to the local estate and the parish council to complain about pheasants (from the estate) trespassing in her field and garden. She has a couple of acres that she tops off which is basically a refuge now for 'wildlife' no thistles or ragwort but she's keen on barn owls, hedgehogs, songbirds etc. She is slightly eccentric in the nicest possible way but means well and is a country widowed woman.

Luckily my walk along that path is fairly short, buts she is serious. She dislikes shooting, abhors the fact that they are bred for 'slaughter' (I didn't tell her we've got pheasant casserole and sauté potatoes for supper tonight ) and says that they are eating the seed she puts out for the songbirds. She's firmly of the belief that her fencing is fit for purpose but the birds fly over it and it's the responsibility of those who reared them to control them (they do but miss a lot )

I don't subscribe to her train of thought, we have plenty in our own fields and part and parcel of our life but it's an interesting viewpoint.....

I’ve never met her but; I love this woman

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Someone needs to tell her that once a pheasant comes onto your property they become yours so she needs to go out and get some food to feed them ......or face a prosecution from the RSPCA for not looking after her livestock

 

[Danllan]

When I was a child on our old place we had hundreds of pheasants from a neighbouring estate doing pretty much everything they could that wasn't wanted. After asking the estate to move its feeders and pens, and getting no response other than that he could shoot some if he liked, my father shot every one he could, and allowed others to shoot them as well; the estate complained to him about this... ,

But it still didn't move its feeders or pens; so he began leaving grain at strategic points, coincidentally the number of pheasants on our place increased enormously, almost all of which were shot. Coincidentally, after that, the estate moved its pens and feeders.


Why anyone would want or tolerate peafowl, on / near their own place, is very hard to understand.

I’ve never met her but; I love this woman

 

[Treg]

Brilliant! She's on your land walking on a footpath complaining about birds on her land

 

[Bald Rick]

As a point of interest, the RSPB have now finished their membership consultation on Grouse & large scale reared pheasants and are in the process of coming off the wall. The goal is to have shoots licensed & controlled.

An update on the RSPB’s review of its policy on gamebird shooting (4): results of consultations

At the RSPB’s AGM in 2019 , our Chair of Council, Kevin Cox, announced that the RSPB was reviewing its policy on the most intensive forms of gamebird shooting especially

community.rspb.org.uk

 

[uztrac]

Not a million miles from me are guinea fowl in the wild along with peacock & peahens.They eat from the pheasant feeders ,all part of lifes sweet tapestry.