ostrea Posted February 1, 2013 Report Share Posted February 1, 2013 Well the season is over, we put down 350 pheasant and had a return of 38% considering the weather this year not to bad I think. 10 of us in the syndicate costing £260.00 each plenty of woodcock pigeons and crows and a good laugh on Saturdays. How did the other small shoots get on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted February 1, 2013 Report Share Posted February 1, 2013 37%. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul223 Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 Bang on 40% to the bird which I am well chuffed with, lots of problems this year with vermin of the two legged variety, poor feed and rain early on, one missed day at the start of jan (not our fault) and continual disturbance at one of the pens / woods, with out that I recon we would be up into the 50% bracket easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmos05 Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 54% on the pheasants, partridge a very disappointing 25% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 Another 4 pheasants in the larder and we would have had 40%, but had to settle for 39%. Our best ever return. But this year we were supplying just ourselves with pheasants and not the neighbouring shoot as well . We shot a few more at a wood a few miles away but as we do not release there they are not included in the statastics. First time at partridges, put down 100, shot 15, most are still alive and living happily on the hundreds of acres of stubble which surrounded the farm this year . Difficult to 'do' partridge on a small spot but they added interest and created a drive out of nothing. Also had a record 16 woodcock, and the usual various, hares, rabbits, pigeons etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark@mbb Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 (edited) We are just setting up a small shoot in cheshire has any one got any idea which is the best place for pheasant eggs we plan to incubate our own so any advice would be helpful Mark Edited February 2, 2013 by mark@mbb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 yeah, get poults !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 54% on the pheasants, partridge a very disappointing 25% If you shoot your partridges when you shoot your pheasants from November onwards then 25% is a good return. I tried for many years to do them releasing 500+ for several seasons for returns of 10% in a good year. I spoke to Malcome Brockless the GC partridge keeper, he advises that to get good returns from partridges you must have dedicate partridge days from early September onwards. Otherwise they get hammered by sparrow hawks/ kestrels etc and/or walk off the shoot. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 We are just setting up a small shoot in cheshire has any one got any idea which is the best place for pheasant eggs we plan to incubate our own so any advice would be helpful Mark That is a HUGE amount of work and stress for someone, unless you are retired or have a lot of time on your hands its not the way to go. You need to know exactly what you are doing or have someone in charge that does. It is a pretty well full time job looking after your birds in the first few weeks. I would suggest at least to start with that you buy in poults at 6-8 weeks and put them straight into pens. A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happychappy246 Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 29% on my partridges 49% on my pheasants and 62% on my ducks shame the river flooded for a few weeks otherwise I reckon I'd of got a few more ducks but oh well not a bad season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malantone Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 Put 700 down, hand fed every day , got a 47.5% best ever in six years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millomite Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 45% for us in the end. One wood didn't perform as normal but pretty happy with that given the weather we had. Malantone, we got one of your green tagged birds on the last day of the season. That one of this years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinP Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 Not a good season for us, put down 800 pheasants and 50 partridge, got 17% pheasant and 8% partridge, worst than last year, the birds just dissappeared despite keeping the feeders topped up, adding grit into the pens and new water drinkers. Our problem is the wood we have permission on is open access and this year seems to have had more dog walkers tramping through the wood than last. Some people seemed to have not heard of the country code or understand what dogs under close control means. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeper23 Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 45% on pheasants 35% partridge. very happy could of had few more days with the amount of birds still around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiny tim Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 38% best year for a while ..with cover crops failing and a wet summer i,m pleased with that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millomite Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 This is our five year return info (from when I started collating it properly). Last year we really struggled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiny tim Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 millomite is that just for pheasants or do you put anything else down? how did you do that graph as well, it looks good ,could do with producing something like that for the agm.....cheers tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millomite Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 Thats just for the pheasants mate. We did release partirdge this year but as we haven't done it before we have no data to compare it to. I just use Microsoft Excel mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millomite Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 I've got loads of sad statistics haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimfire4969 Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 We got 31% which is good for us on pheasants, more woodcock than last season and a few duck make our return fairly good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave C Posted February 24, 2013 Report Share Posted February 24, 2013 42% on Pheasants, its only our second season on the land so we are very happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopper Bopper Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 48% overall from 800 birds released. HB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 We were well over 60% but it wasn't from a huge number, poor covers etched have made some people struggle one locally did 10% on partridges which with a put down of a fair few thousand must hurt the pocket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otherwayup Posted February 27, 2013 Report Share Posted February 27, 2013 We've had our ups and downs over the years, but I think you'll agree, things are on the up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highseas Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 39% of pheasants from 14,000...14% of partriges from 1400 (very poor bosses fault) and 96% from ducks from 2000 put down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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