Released Birds

[SuicidJky]

I was hoping someone who has released birds can help me out here. Today out deer hunting we seen a Pheasant, he had covering his eyes what I would call "blinders" he couldn't see straight ahead of him. We almost caught him, by sneaking straight at him but he flew away, and piled into the ground pretty good when he landed. Why do they do this to them? The poor bugger has no chance at surviving now with them things on.

[popplecop]

These are placed on the birds while in the pens. The object is so they don't peck at the other birds, otherwise you wind up with tailless roosters. These nasal blinders are supposed to be removed before the bird is released. Hard for them to fly with on, but can forage for food ok.

[Nulle]

I am guessing this was a bird that escaped from a Game Farm and this does happen from time to time. They are not released on purpose with these on. Pheasants are very canabilistic and the blinders help some when pen raising them. I prefer the debeaking method and have better luck with that and a lot less work.