By releasing the breeding pheasants now, we hope that far fewer birds will go on to be shot this Winter... It was an incredible sensation to be amongst all these birds, who were making their first flights without bashing into a net.
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We decided after reading recent hit reports from other activists that it was
time we did something about it as well.
The game farm at ‘Chilmark Common’ is just south of the village of Chilmark.
We found 8 very large pens each pen had approximately 400-600 birds,
totaling somewhere between 3,200-4,800.
These breeding birds would have gone on to produce tens of thousands of
offspring that would have been reared in factory farm conditions, to be put
into pheasant pens in the late summer and then shot.
By releasing the breeding birds now, we hope that far fewer birds will go
on to be shot this Winter.
We removed fence panels from the end of each pen, then walked through the
pen and hearded the pheasants out, closing the pen behind us after each one
so that they didn’t run back in.
It was an incredible sensation to be amongst all these birds, who were
making their first flights without bashing into a net. We hope they find
peace in the surrounding woods.
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