Pheasant taken up residency at the allotment....Advice ?

[no_akira]

Well I noticed him a few weeks back walking around the site.

Then the overwintered brassica's started getting totally munched, like every single one.

Saw him tonight "bold as brass"... "I like it here, got it cousty" he was saying

What do we do about him, any ideas ?

[flynch]

Pheasant stew? Lol in all seriousness I'd try get all the plot holders to Chase it off when they see it in the hope it would decide to move on.

[snakeshack]

Pastry overcoat ,he could share it with a rabbit to keep warm

[no_akira]

Might have to do a Roald Dahl - "Danny, champion of the world"

[Guest]

Is it definitely a him? They will roam for miles and I am surprised he is that much of an issue. Just net your veg. I would have thought pigeons would have done your brassicas in first Where abouts are you? just wondering if the poor chap has limited food source.

If it is a girl she may be looking for some tall vegetation to nest in.

[roitelet]

Try and trap him/her and take it well away. I lost most of my potatoes in the ground to pheasants one year. They scratched like chickens and ate the top half of the potatoes they un covered.

[Muddy_Boots]

It will be prety obvious is its a him, they are the more colourful of the pair as the females are drab in comparison. Try and take a photo before you bag him/her for the pot, only joking.

I would of thought the rats with wings would of had your Brassicas well before he/she had spotted them, the ones in our lottie sit in the trees with their bibs on with knife and fork in each wing waiting for you to go out the gate before they decend to ravage your un-netted plants. Newbies soon learn you have to net everything thats either cabbage related or red coloured fruit or a goosegog otherwise they nab 'em.

All you can hope for is that a fox scares him off, someone does in fact bag him/her for the pot else he gets bored as ther's not enough food for him and he moves on to pastures new.

[Potstubsdustbins]

They generally prefer grain as a food source but will if pushed eat greens.

It would be a criminal offence to kill him/her deliberately it is the closed season until 1st Oct.

Looks like your stuck with netting/scaring.

[Snadger]

Where abouts are you, I'll take him! I would love a pheasant on my plot and would feel honoured to be visited by this aristocrat of the bird world.
They love jerusalem artichokes apparently. I thought about getting some of the ornamental pheasants with colours a bit like peacocks myself, but I'm not sure they are suited to captivity.