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Location: East Midlands, UK
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Originally Posted by
Jet&Copper
I shall ask this again, anti hunt people - if we raised pheasants here and dispatched them without actually hunting them, would that be ok with you?
Good point, good question. No, I don't think I would be happy with that because pheasants are reasonably good flyers and their natural behaviour is to roam fairly freely. It would be cruel to keep them in an enclosure, because to make such an enclosure large enough and high enough (to prevent them flying away) would be prohibitively expensive.
With chickens (jungle fowl) they were never very good flyers. They can fly, but stay mainly on the ground, only roosting in trees to keep away from ground predators. Although I am absolutely totally against anything other than free range chickens, they do not need a huge area of ground to be kept happy and healthy, and they have adapted very well to "cultivation".