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Study on gamebirds failure to breed

hen pheasant

Young hen pheasants are best for roasting

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is launching a new research programme, which aims to discover why the breeding success rate of released pheasant hens is just 10 per cent of their wild equivalents.

The rest of this article appears in 3rd February issue of Shooting Times.

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