sdviking
Active member
We raised 250 pheasant chicks and released all of them this past summer. With the poor pheasant hatch that took place last year, I have been talking with many of my neighbors about raising and releasing pheasants in 2018. The local pheasant chapter is considering helping us out with our pheasant raising cost. Sounds like 3 additional farms plan on raising and releasing pheasants now. I know that the survival rate is low on released pheasants but at least the locals are trying to do something to help pheasant numbers recover. Our habitat was pretty good last year. I haven't heard much on what is being done to promote more habitat in our area. But we have pretty good public shooting areas along with ok CRP enrollment.
I also requested that the local chapter come up with some way to band the released birds with the intent to possibly put an ad in the local paper with a facebook site so hunters can post if they harvested one of the banded birds. Just to gather some data on our success rate, so we can figure out if it's worth the time and effort.
Just wanted to provide an update on our efforts to increase pheasants in our area. Anyone else have any efforts being done that they want to share?
SDViking
I also requested that the local chapter come up with some way to band the released birds with the intent to possibly put an ad in the local paper with a facebook site so hunters can post if they harvested one of the banded birds. Just to gather some data on our success rate, so we can figure out if it's worth the time and effort.
Just wanted to provide an update on our efforts to increase pheasants in our area. Anyone else have any efforts being done that they want to share?
SDViking