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Some pen-raised birds make it. Maybe encounters with wild birds helps. However, I worry about the long-term impacts of the mixture of pen-raised DNA with wild. "Wild" mallards on the east coast are virtually all hybrids of wild and surviving pen-raised. The genes of these surviving pen-raised mallards are producing observable changes in wild populations that might be impacting survival. I don't think this has been studied much in pheasants, but there are sure a lot of them released.
 
Tomahawker said:
My theory is pen raised have a chance IF they can link up with and kinda follow along with wild ones. Eat what they eat, run when they run etc.
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You’re right… Twenty five years ago I would go out north of Salina Kansas and hunt with this old drunkard of a siding salesman that worked for the company I did. He only had one working arm as he was shot several times and left in the trunk of his car for a couple days after sexing up the wife of some guy that was crazier than him. ( that is a story all on it’s own). Anyway this farmer friend had a Gucci hunting operation out there where he would put out hundreds of birds for these oil guys from Texas. There were literally hundreds of liberated birds on his property and they would bunch up and act pretty much like wild birds at some point. I think we paid 100 bucks to hunt a couple days and stay in one of his houses. Unfortunately old AL finally succumbed to the jug and the farmer wasn’t interested in us coming out and shooting all his birds. It was a lot of fun for both me and my dogs
 
matto said:
Some pen-raised birds make it. Maybe encounters with wild birds helps. However, I worry about the long-term impacts of the mixture of pen-raised DNA with wild. "Wild" mallards on the east coast are virtually all hybrids of wild and surviving pen-raised. The genes of these surviving pen-raised mallards are producing observable changes in wild populations that might be impacting survival. I don't think this has been studied much in pheasants, but there are sure a lot of them released.
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I don't like it at all. It isn't right.
 
LC Smith said:
Goose,

I was recently at one of those lodges in Gregory about a month ago. The surrounding area has lots of birds off the road, etc. but I would bet most are from one of the lodge lands. That WPA you speak about was not super full of water at that time. The river itself was really low. I would for sure go east and north if looking for public areas with birds.
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That's right, it didn't have much water,but lots of Russian olives.
 
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