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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Ben94 on February 25, 2016, 08:12:11 pm

Title: Hens near dead pheasant
Post by: Ben94 on February 25, 2016, 08:12:11 pm: I came home to the hens near a fresh dead pheasant should I be worried?
Title: Re: Hens near dead pheasant
Post by: Sbom on February 25, 2016, 08:15:08 pm: Are you worried that now your hens have a taste for killing they may turn their attentions to you? ;D

If so then an extra scoop of corn should sway them....
Title: Re: Hens near dead pheasant
Post by: dr241000 on February 25, 2016, 08:28:58 pm: If the pheasant has got some sort of disease then it is a concern as it could pass the disease onto the chickens. I would not know of any advice to give though on how to treat diseases though.
Title: Re: Hens near dead pheasant
Post by: Steph Hen on February 25, 2016, 09:35:56 pm: How did the pheasant look? Thin, injuries, discharges, flown into a wall..? Where was it? - tucked away under a hedge (because it was feeling ill) or in middle of lawn (dropped by fox?) Pile of feathers?

Basically no, I wouldn't be worried, but keep a eye for any symptoms in your birds and any more birdie bodies. (Although it's the sort of thing that if you start looking, you'll start seeing dead birds everywhere!)
Title: Re: Hens near dead pheasant
Post by: Penninehillbilly on February 25, 2016, 10:53:47 pm: Quote from: Sbom on February 25, 2016, 08:15:08 pm
Are you worried that now your hens have a taste for killing they may turn their attentions to you? ;D

If so then an extra scoop of corn should sway them....
Which way?