Full Description
This comprehensive, practical guide covers everything you need to know about creating and maintaining your shooting ground, from breeding gamebirds such as pheasants and partridges to advice on running a successful shoot day.
A useful addition to every shooting mans library and an invaluable guide for gamekeepers, game-keeping students, shooting syndicates, and anyone who has an interest in how a partridge and pheasant shoot is run.
Topics covered include:
Stock selection
Habitat management
Predator control
Egg production and hatching
Rearing and releasing game
Game crop establishment and holding game
Contents
Foreword
1. Stock selection
2. Catching-up
3. End of season tidy up
4. Predator control
5. Fox control
6. Squirrel control
7. Woodland management
8. Planning new drives
9. Game crops
10. Egg production
11. Incubation
12. Releasing ex-layers
13. Small-scale rearing
14. Release pens
15. Post-release management of pheasant poults
16. Partridges
17. Theft and poaching
18. Holding game
19. Getting ready
20. Running a shoot day
21. Winter losses; Ducks
22. Wetland creation
23. Cost-saving ideas
24. Work party countdown
25. How to make a dog-gate in a stock fence
26. Tax and casual work
27. Loading
Index
