As gamebirds Common pheasant

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for sale @ borough market, london



a field-bred english cocker spaniel has brought in quarry



collisions between pheasants , road vehicles common in uk


common pheasants bred hunted , shot in great numbers in europe, uk, shot on traditional formal driven shoot principles, whereby paying guns have birds driven on them beaters, , on smaller rough shoots . open season in uk 1 october – 1 february, under game act 1831. shot hunters employing gun dogs find, flush, , retrieve shot birds. retrievers, spaniels, , pointing breeds used hunt pheasants.


the doggerel gets guinea, bang goes penny-halfpenny, , down comes half crown reflects expensive sport of nineteenth century driven shoots in britain, when pheasants shot sport rather food. popular royal pastime in britain shoot common pheasants. king george v shot on thousand pheasants out of total bag of 3,937 on six-day period in december 1913 during competition friend, did not enough beat him.


common pheasants traditionally target of small game poachers in uk, due low value of pheasants in modern day have resorted stealing chicks or poults pens. roald dahl novel danny champion of world dealt poacher (and son) lived in united kingdom , illegally hunted common pheasants.


pheasant farming common practice, , done intensively. birds supplied both hunting preserves/estates , restaurants, smaller numbers being available home cooks. pheasant farms have 10 million birds in u.s. , 35 million in united kingdom.


the carcasses hung time improve meat slight decomposition, other game. modern cookery uses moist roasting , farm-raised female birds. in uk , u.s., game making of comeback in popular cooking, , more pheasants ever being sold in supermarkets there. major reason consumer attitude shift consumption of red meat white meat.








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