Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Wildlife Management Raising/releasing upland game birds

TJ:

It depends on what state you are in whether it's legal or not.

A friend of mine was the Head Upland Game Biologist for Region 5 in CA. They tried releasing pen raised Pheasants for a number of years and they didn't last more than a couple of weeks in the wild. They ended up doing a trade with North or South Dakota for wild birds that knew how to avoid predators.

Now if you're talking put-n-take, that's a different story. When we get together I can walk you thru it. I raised between 50 and 100 Pheasants/year for a few years to help reduce the bird bill for training my Springers. Same with Quail. You won't believe how small day old Bobwhite chicks are!!!