Author Topic: You know the pheasants are out of hand.... (Read 12307 times)

oor wullie · « **Reply #15 on:** January 17, 2016, 08:47:58 am »

Pheasants are the worst kind of vermin around us.
They make it nearly impossible to grow anything, this year they dug up about 80% of my tatties and ate at least half of the field of turnips that was supposed to be feeding the sheep.
No amount of shooting them seems to make a difference to their numbers so I think releasing them should be made illegal.

Backinwellies · « **Reply #16 on:** January 17, 2016, 03:02:32 pm »

Quote from: Bionic on January 17, 2016, 07:26:47 am

Oh, send some my way. I would love them

Plenty on this hill Sally ... shoot down by the river.

Bionic · « **Reply #17 on:** January 17, 2016, 03:15:19 pm »

Quote from: Backinwellies on January 17, 2016, 03:02:32 pm

Quote from: Bionic on January 17, 2016, 07:26:47 am
Oh, send some my way. I would love them
Plenty on this hill Sally ... shoot down by the river.

I've only ever seen one here

pgkevet · « **Reply #18 on:** February 13, 2016, 08:07:01 am »

..never a camera handy when you want one. 31 pheasants came for breakfast by the barn this am..

Yes they do devastate my sweetcorn.. but then so do the hares. I got half a dozen cobs out of 100 plants last year. Year before when grown nearer the house i had 100 cobs to myself. You can guess where the sweetcorn patch will be this year...

waterbuffalofarmer · « **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2016, 09:01:13 am »

There is a guy who lives up the road and he breeds them for shooting. We have some wander onto the farm, but they soon clear off, they're ringnecked males. I always found them fascinating, but I suppose even the most fascinating animals can be huge pests. The only thing I consider as being vermin are rats and mice. We have huge rabbit populations, we get someone out to shoot em, but I never see them as being vermin.

devonlady · « **Reply #20 on:** February 13, 2016, 12:01:26 pm »

Somehow I can never bring myself to shoot a pheasant (though I'll happily eat those others have shot) but rabbits are a damned nuisance, fouling the grass, eating my ewes grass and undermining the hedges and banks. I have no trouble shooting them!!