The perfect pheasant pen
Rightly or wrongly, we sometimes assume that everyone who shoots pheasants knows what a release pen is, what it should look like and, crucially, for the ever-growing number of amateur keepers out there, how to get it ready for the birds and manage it once they are in.
I therefore make no apology for going through the basics.
A release pen is simply a halfway house for birds that have been artificially reared, which helps them acclimatise to living in the wild.
The birds are released into it at six to eight weeks old, and typically stay there for
