Making it a moveable feast
DR MIKE SWAN IS HEAD OF EDUCATION AND THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL ADVISER FOR THE GAME & WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST
In 1982, when I started as a trainee game adviser with the GWCT, we had a rule of thumb that it took about eight tons of food per 1,000 pheasant poults to feed through release, shooting and into late winter for those left.
Today, for most shoots, that figure has risen to about 10 tons. If you subtract the two tons of grower pellets that are needed to make sure the poults develop properly, there has been a 33% increase in wheat used.
I have no doubt that a
