Thread: eastern f&g pass some wierd shit

Originally Posted by EeeBees

This is an interesting matter re the hen pheasants...a rooster can tend to a maximum of say six or so hens (in the wild)...then there are the 'barren' hens (which tend to be of a lighter colour than the nesting ones)...these will put nesting hens off their nests...so if the population warrants it, why not have a bag for them...the way I see is that when there is an imbalance of the sexes, by natural attrition you are not going to get a greater population...vis a vis, it is pretty much a fallacy and as @gsp follower mentions, the concept of the hens being sacrosanct is so positively Victorian in its relevance.

see your comparing the poms with us the poms have always shot hens cos thier birds are stocked.
in a wild situation not one country in the worlds wildlife managers allow the taking of hen pheasants.
toby if your the young fella that aint been out much i,l forgive your lack of forethought.
if not i think i,l stick with the thinking of every american canadian and other countries wildlife managers who say the shooting of wild hen pheasants is bordering on wild pheasant hunting suicide.