Originally Posted by battue
Mixing genetically inferior pen raised Birds, with the truly wild, imo is not all that wise. However, again money talks....

http://www.startribune.com/debate-i...sed-pheasants-in-south-dakota/500758651/


Originally Posted by nighthawk
PAYWALLED! the greedy bastards. But I suspect winter and predators are the great equalizers. At least in SD & ND


This is one of those cases where opening an Incognito window in Chrome or a Private window in Safari gets you past their paywall. Doesn't work every where but 50%-ish of the time it does.

From the article

Last year, 214 private shooting preserves licensed by the state released at least 468,386 pheasants, up 21 percent from 2011. The total 2017 harvest of those birds — 283,254 — compares significantly to the 828,700 wild pheasants harvested in South Dakota last year.

Interesting article that neither endorses nor condemns. One of the things discussed is how raisers are getting pen-raised bird to behave more like wild but survival rates are still really low in the field.

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