Pen-Reared Pseudo Roosters

gimruis said:
They have no natural instinct to evade hunters or predators.

I will say that they are wonderful for training young dogs though. They're slow, dumb, and they guarantee success.
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I have a story that maybe supports that idea. We don’t have any wild Pheasants to speak of here in SW Utah. Each year they release pen raised birds into various BLM and WMA areas during the season. In an area nearby that’s about 150 acres or so of Juniper and Sage Brush they put out about 50 or 75 birds on Friday after shooting hours. You can imagine Saturday morning!

I avoid that madness and take the dog out during the week for exercise and hunt “leftovers” that may have survived the weekend blitz. Mostly it's just exercise but it set up Phin’s first unassisted Pheasant score. He got insanely birdie , circling a big chunk of sagebrush then just dove in and came out with a live Rooster. Brought it over to me proud as he could be.

Since it was his, I froze the whole bird and still use it occasionally during training.
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