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
Ridiculous birds and their laying habits are a wonder....
Get your pheasants off my land!
- Thread starter HolzKopf
- Start date
Ridiculous birds and their laying habits are a wonder....
- Location
- Darlington
Didn't you know that giving someone shooting rights automatically promotes them to Lord of the Manor?We have a self-keepered shoot here, who think they own the place despite only having 'the right to take pheasants from the woods'. They are being very generous with their wheat, putting it in a few feeders to spread the pheasants around the place. I checked in one of the feeders the other day, as I moved it out of the way on 'my' track, to find they were being very generous with all manner of weed seeds too. About the dirtiest sample I've ever seen, and likely off the cleaner.
Davey
Member
- Location
- Derbyshire
Reminds me of my favorite book as a child
- Location
- Limousin, France
Wonderful film as well. Well worth watching for young and old.
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
if a Peacock lays an egg on your own land, you can legally keep it and it's yours
Also if a peacock lands in your yard you have the right to shoot the noisy ruddy things ! (I have a phobia about peacocks ever since as a 4 year old one stole a bit of fudge off me at castle Howard ! Will never forgive it even tho it's almost 40 years ago !)
dudders
Member
- Location
- East Sussex
Just think of them same as your lambs - food on the hoof. It's just up to you to do the killing, but that's more humane than a trip to the slaughterhouse and the subsequent procedure the lambs have to go through.
All the ones I shoot here find a grateful market at £1 apiece, unplucked and undrawn. For ourselves, we don't bother plucking & gutting, just hack off the breast meat, same as with pigeons.
- Location
- North Norfolk
If a peacock lays anything, it would be a miracle. You need a Peahen for eggs
Y Fan Wen
Member
- Location
- N W Snowdonia
The little one had this book as an audiotape when he was about 5. Number of times I've listened to it I could probably recite chunks of it verbatim!
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
We did just that, found a peahens nest and put the eggs under a banty. only one hatched a male, it was very funny watching him follow his mum round the yard, when he was three times the size. Sadly just as he was becoming a proud male he found some rat bait which had come out of the combine as we were getting ready for the start of harvest. There was very little of it and I was not worried, but next day he put his toes up.
Funny eggs nearly triangular
Funny eggs nearly triangular
- Location
- 200 miles N,NW of New York
Spoil sport,
- Location
- Huntingdon
Catch them up I’ll re home them
Seriously need a Peacock for parents place after the last one croaked leaving a lonely Peahen.
C B
Exfarmer
Member
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
There’s one running about our village, if I catch it I will give you a shoutCatch them up I’ll re home them
Seriously need a Peacock for parents place after the last one croaked leaving a lonely Peahen.
C B
- Location
- fakenham-norfolk
Can forum members from Wales advise if you can still meet up for a shoot or not under their new restrictions ?
No.
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- Location
- somerset
only if you meet up in england, and cross over to wales, to shoot, the serious answer, by the time you find out, it will probably have changed again.
Except you cannot enter us ... we are virginal
- Location
- somerset
really don't believe the last bit.
No nookie until turkey cookie