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Coming over to the thought that If you breed and rear an animal/bird it should be your responsibility to retain it on land that is under your control/ownership
a low light oven for several hoursWhat’s the rules on peacocks?
same then applies to those that releaseComing over to the thought that If you breed and rear an animal/bird it should be your responsibility to retain it on land that is under your control/ownership
Difference is commercial gains rely on getting the pheasant backsame then applies to those that release
red kites and buzzards that attack the hares
beaver
wild ,boor
red deer
once they are released there is not a lot that any one can do to keep them confined they go where they like
What’s the rules on peacocks?
I was talking to a local chap who runs a thriving little shoot amongst many other enterprises.
I asked where he gets his birds, as they always look incredibly healthy and plentiful even with no keeper on his land, and he just said "Next door".
Which has a large commercial shoot.....
Coming over to the thought that If you breed and rear an animal/bird it should be your responsibility to retain it on land that is under your control/ownership
She is slightly eccentric in the nicest possible way but means well and is a country widowed woman.
... and says that they are eating the seed she puts out for the songbirds.
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 sounds like a decent sort, and her patch and the wildlife obviously mean a lot to her.
In the interests of good neighbourly relations, would it be worth taking a sack of wheat over to her "to compensate for the feed taken by the pheasants"?
I am also in this boat. Our neighbouring farm breeds and shoots. They are a bloody pest. They eat the sheep feed, sh*t on everything, eat the corn in the fields and paddle the feeding areas making them that special kind of slick muddy that only chickens, ducks, pheasants, etc can.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.
Goodness man that sounds and is jolly reasonable - totally against the caricature of estate shoots!!!
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
Wild birds? Not where I see em they're not, they're ornamental fowl, reared on trucked feed.
The phrase "Dogging In" springs to mind !!I was talking to a local chap who runs a thriving little shoot amongst many other enterprises.
I asked where he gets his birds, as they always look incredibly healthy and plentiful even with no keeper on his land, and he just said "Next door".
Which has a large commercial shoot.....