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Letters from game bird practice two years ago, his observation that poults are ‘reared on game farms to the age of 10 to 14 weeks’ is, like my own shooting, a bit wide of the mark. This is likely to be true of partridge poults, but the vast majority of pheasant poults are taken to release pens at six to eight weeks. John Robert Dalton, e-mail: [email protected] doi: 10.1136/vr.i529
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Movement of game birds from rearing fields I VERY much enjoyed reading Daniel Parker’s resume of the poultry industry (VR, January 16, 2016, vol 178, pp 59-62). Unless the game bird sector has taken a violent shift in timing since I retired 124 | Veterinary Record | January 30, 2016
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Letters from game bird practice two years ago, his observation that poults are ‘reared on game farms to the age of 10 to 14 weeks’ is, like my own shooting, a bit wide of the mark. This is likely to be true of partridge poults, but the vast majority of pheasant poults are taken to release pens at six to eight weeks. John Robert Dalton, e-mail: [email protected] doi: 10.1136/vr.i529
GAME MANAGEMENT
Movement of game birds from rearing fields I VERY much enjoyed reading Daniel Parker’s resume of the poultry industry (VR, January 16, 2016, vol 178, pp 59-62). Unless the game bird sector has taken a violent shift in timing since I retired 124 | Veterinary Record | January 30, 2016
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Movement of game birds from rearing fields John Robert Dalton Veterinary Record 2016 178: 124
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