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Will game shooting go ahead this autumn?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hampton" data-source="post: 6852608" data-attributes="member: 6937"><p>Oh please!</p><p>Just because cattle and sheep are going to die, doesn’t mean their welfare is lower than a pheasants.</p><p>anyone who has been near a game farm knows that they can’t touch a well run beef or sheep farm in terms of medication used.</p><p>It’s true that many sheep and cattle are wormed, but fec tests has reduced this dramatically. Vaccines are used, but antibiotics are now much more rare. I would estimate less than 1% of my spring lambs will require antibiotics or wormers.</p><p></p><p>with regards to not high percentages of pheasants getting shot, this is true, but at the end of the season on big shoots, the keeper will go around shooting the cock birds with rifles (This is very common, mainly whilst roosting) and the hen birds are largely rounded up and used as layers.</p><p>Again, your knowledge of game farming and livestock farming has many holes in.</p><p>Your argument on welfare standards of pheasants appears to be based on them being free range. It tends to ignore that they are chased by dogs, shot at repeatedly over 3-4 months, herded around to the drives, then at the end of the season when the sport finishes, males are rifled and hens are caught, oh and the feeding stops for those left out.</p><p>Doesn’t seem quite so rose tinted now does it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hampton, post: 6852608, member: 6937"] Oh please! Just because cattle and sheep are going to die, doesn’t mean their welfare is lower than a pheasants. anyone who has been near a game farm knows that they can’t touch a well run beef or sheep farm in terms of medication used. It’s true that many sheep and cattle are wormed, but fec tests has reduced this dramatically. Vaccines are used, but antibiotics are now much more rare. I would estimate less than 1% of my spring lambs will require antibiotics or wormers. with regards to not high percentages of pheasants getting shot, this is true, but at the end of the season on big shoots, the keeper will go around shooting the cock birds with rifles (This is very common, mainly whilst roosting) and the hen birds are largely rounded up and used as layers. Again, your knowledge of game farming and livestock farming has many holes in. Your argument on welfare standards of pheasants appears to be based on them being free range. It tends to ignore that they are chased by dogs, shot at repeatedly over 3-4 months, herded around to the drives, then at the end of the season when the sport finishes, males are rifled and hens are caught, oh and the feeding stops for those left out. Doesn’t seem quite so rose tinted now does it? [/QUOTE]
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