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Gamekeeper

We have seen our first broods of pheasant chicks. They weren’t particularly early and they weren’t particularly large, but they were, nevertheless, broods of strong wild chicks that have now disappeared into the corn to hopefully reappear at harvest time as poults. Everything seems to have done fairly well to date, no doubt helped by one of the driest and warmest springs that I can remember.

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