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What pheasants eat?
« on: December 14, 2012, 07:11:39 AM »
Well i guess they like praying mantis cacoons!

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Re: What pheasants eat?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2012, 07:14:49 AM »
Like most birds I think they will eat about any thing.
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Re: What pheasants eat?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2012, 07:16:00 AM »
Interesting

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Re: What pheasants eat?
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2012, 07:30:27 AM »
what was wierd was how big a pheasant can open its mouth.... i have killed hundreds of em and never opened there beaks....

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Re: What pheasants eat?
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2012, 07:55:18 AM »
Well thats better than them eating dog crap. I've cleaned 2 or 3 release site birds now with dog waste in their crop :puke:. Sorry no pics. :chuckle:  I guess they have to survive somehow when there is no available grain.
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Re: What pheasants eat?
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2012, 08:04:11 AM »
Well thats better than them eating dog crap. I've cleaned 2 or 3 release site birds now with dog waste in their crop :puke:. Sorry no pics. :chuckle:  I guess they have to survive somehow when there is no available grain.

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Re: What pheasants eat?
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2012, 08:40:52 AM »
Well thats better than them eating dog crap. I've cleaned 2 or 3 release site birds now with dog waste in their crop :puke:. Sorry no pics. :chuckle:  I guess they have to survive somehow when there is no available grain.

That is just nasty!

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Re: What pheasants eat?
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2012, 07:18:31 PM »
I've known them to pick corn from cow piles, but dog crap.........yuk!
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Re: What pheasants eat?
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2012, 07:17:25 AM »
They can swallow a decent sized mouse whole.

 


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