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by Don » Tue Nov 23, 2010 4:26 pm
I would suspect that in New England the vast majority of pheasant's are game farm birds. If they didn't shoot the hen's, what would they do with them? Many of the preserves out here offer roosters only, wonder what they do with the hens? Seem's to me that hatcching out 10,000 egg's and then destroying all the hens would make the cost of the rooster skyrocket. In fact the cheapest place I know of here to shoot rooster's they cost $28 per birdd and you can't get hens! Another place will put down rooster's for $34 or hens for $28.
So if, I don't know, the pheasant hunting in New England exist's by put and take only, shooting hens keeps the cost of birds way down and provides much more opertunity for the hunter, pretty smart move!
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