Pheasant rebound…

[Iowa]

Wonder how well stocking efforts would do? They are from China anyway?

It’d be cheaper to “un stock “ the nest predators. I tried raising pheasants and quail when I was a kid and they would pretty much vanish within a week of being released.
Good friend of mine has a farm in the Dakotas that they have guided pheasant hunts on. Best pheasant cover you could ask for and lots of it, stocks a few hundred extra roosters every fall and says he has very little confidence any of them have ever lived to see spring.
I’m guessing adult pheasants would cost> $10 a bird ??? I could find out, but for the cost of 100 birds at that price I can buy 1500 rounds of .556 and shoot 750 coons assuming I miss 50% of the time.

 

[newfarmer]

It’d be cheaper to “un stock “ the nest predators. I tried raising pheasants and quail when I was a kid and they would pretty much vanish within a week of being released.
Good friend of mine has a farm in the Dakotas that they have guided pheasant hunts on. Best pheasant cover you could ask for and lots of it, stocks a few hundred extra roosters every fall and says he has very little confidence any of them have ever lived to see spring.
I’m guessing adult pheasants would cost> $10 a bird ??? I could find out, but for the cost of 100 birds at that price I can buy 1500 rounds of .556 and shoot 750 coons assuming I miss 50% of the time.

We have done both pheasant and quail- best thing to do is raise them with hen chickens so they at least get some sort of instincts. Otherwise- dumbest birds ever and all dead pretty quick.

 

[Hardwood11]

In Minnesota we have created a lot of habitat for winter survival…shelterbelts near the edges of cattail swamps .

L shaped tree lines with a mix of spruce, cedar, plum, chokecherry, crab apple etc… with a food plot that borders it . Willow, dogwood, it all spreads and gets thick !

It’s worked very well. If they don’t survive the winter they can’t lay eggs !!