Feeding 100 to 200 pheasants

[Dave1087]

Hi I am putting 100 to 200 pheasants down next year where I go dog training the woman who dose the gun dog training is wanting to have live birds to hunt the dogs to

My question is how much feed approximately will 100 to 200 birds need per year as she will be feeding them all year

Thanks Dave

[scotslad]

Very roughly about 1 tonne per 100ish poults possibly a bit more or a bit less, depends on loads of things how much other stuff eating it from ur hoppers how many birds u hold etc.

 

If ur ex=layers possibly a bit more wheat but u don't need any pellets.

[CharlieT]

To make the calculation easy work on 1lb of wheat per bird per week ( about 2oz/bird per day).

[Dave1087]

Thank you

[spanielman]

Have you thought about how your going to hold them, have you got a lot of woods, they do like to wander,

Still you will be doing a lot of dogging in or dogging out hope it's not the latter.

[Dave1087]

Have you thought about how your going to hold them, have you got a lot of woods, they do like to wander,

Still you will be doing a lot of dogging in or dogging out hope it's not the latter.

I have done some game keeping in the past for 5 years and reared pheasants from the egg but when it came to feeding them I just got the corn from the farmer so didn't keep a track of the food I was giving them that's why I have asked the question the land they will be going on is fine thanks