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If they dont have a good food source, I think it helps them quite a bit. Our chapter has taken a 55 gallon drum, put a cone in the bottom and either drilled 3/4" holes in the bottom or cut a rectangular hole and used a wire mesh screen over it. I also spread some around by hand to get them to find it.

We have also used a chicken wire fence to make a circle and filled it with cob corn....that is susceptible to deer however. But it works well and in my experience pheasants like cob corn better than shell corn.

One last way to do it is to plow a "road" in the field next to good winter cover and hand throw out cob corn. be sure to do this often and especially after snow. If you arent committed, dont even start any feeding method or as Ryan said, you hang them out to dry. I like the plow/hand throw method the best if you can keep at it as it is the closest to their natural feeding method.