We have had broad flat leaves, can we now have a "I hate pheasants" thread??

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Vickijay

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Today I honestly wish all pheasants would die!!! Or at least bog off elsewhere!! They are official worse than those big leafy horse eating plants!!

Just going for a nice hack round the farm on my young horse, who has only just started hacking by himself. Just wandering along, lots of pats and good boys and he almost ends stepping on one of the little ****'s.

Did it run away sooner, nope, it froze until he almost stepped on it. Did it go crazy with its horrible garbling and hectic flapping, yep!!

I hate them!!!!!!

Am I the only one?

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Once had one fly up into my horsey chest while going full speed - needless to say horse went bonkers!! :( fell of and broke my arm... I always scream 'fly away pheasants' when galloping through pheasant territory now :) and it works they fly away :D
 
One committed suicide by not flying high enough over my work van bonnet (before I got it tbf) and the quoted iv had range from £500-700!! It's a pheasant and the whole of the front of the van needs fixing!!
 
Missmac said:
Nope! Hate the suicidal little gits!
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At least I'm not the only one!!

trefnantblackknight said:
Once had one fly up into my horsey chest while going full speed - needless to say horse went bonkers!! :( fell of and broke my arm... I always scream 'fly away pheasants' when galloping through pheasant territory now :) and it works they fly away :D
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Maybe I should just shout a bit when I'm going down the bit where they have been the last 2 days! I'll look cool too ;)

Grumpy Jewel said:
One committed suicide by not flying high enough over my work van bonnet (before I got it tbf) and the quoted iv had range from £500-700!! It's a pheasant and the whole of the front of the van needs fixing!!
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Oh no!! You probably hate them even more than me!!

bex1984 said:
We met a horse eating pigeon yesterday. Pony clearly thought I hadn't noticed it so dumped me on the floor so that I could get a better view.
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Poor you, hope your ok!

PleaseVenus said:
I don't hate them but their suicidal tendencies worry me. So many seem to have a death wish.
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I thought that there was a reason for the suicidal death wishes of them, something to do with them being regularly shot...but I might of dreamt that!!

DabDab said:
There are lots that frequent my horse's field - he chases them :cool:
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I need your horse to come hacking with my young one!!!
 
I wholeheartedly agree. I had a horrible crash caused by a pheasant flying up when I was young, it made my horse go over backwards.
Last year I had another run in with one.
And I dread the day each year when they are released from their pens and batter one by one into fences as I ride past.
They also steal my hen food and last, but not least, I'm allergic to them.
I'd like to live in a pheasant free zone!
 
Touch wood my lad has been ok with pheasants so far - he never seems to spook at what I think he will!

Was out on a long hack, and calmly stood in the woods checking the route on my phone whilst waiting for buddy to catch up...reins looped over my wrist etc - pheasant flew out of bush right next to us. Had that moment expecting him to leg it - but he just swayed as it flew over his shoulder! Love him :)

However, the new gravel drive on a house we have to pass every time hacking requires dragon snorting and sidling past sideways whilst watching intently - tigers there don't you know?

Stupid suicidal pheasant flew into my car a while ago - jumped straight into the car and smashed the windscreen! And had pheasant smear all up the glass and over the roof...lovely.
 
Grumpy Jewel said:
One committed suicide by not flying high enough over my work van bonnet (before I got it tbf) and the quoted iv had range from £500-700!! It's a pheasant and the whole of the front of the van needs fixing!!
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What the heck were you driving? I hit one at about 50mph in my Megane and have no damage! (Unless you count the feathers wedged in the grill!)

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They exist to stop horse riders snoozing on a hack!

Agree with them being too stupid to survive naturally (although maybe partridge are more stupid??)
 
My 10yr old sister has pheasant hatred today! Whilst out hacking her pony this eve,she decided to pop him over a small hedge. As he was landing a noisy pheasant flew up, cue him jinking one way and her going the other!
I detest them!
 
Pheasants? Pfffft try envelopes...... Yes small white rectangular envelopes! He saw one today (livery bill was in it) and looked at me I. Total disgust when I opened it. So. Thought I'd go and show it to him so he knew it wasn't at all as scary as he thought, but no, he backed off into the corner of his stable and wouldn't even look at me.

So tonight I don't think we are friends.
 
Haha this thread made me laugh - I too have a great dislike for pheasants! When I was learning to ride, I used to have lessons on a little pony up on a farm where they used to shoot & had their own pheasants as well as other game birds. The little toads would always hide in the ditch or the hedge that ran along the bottom edge of our field, and would usually make an all singing all dancing appearance right when I was least expecting it, deep in concentration!! And have caused me to end up on the floor many a time! Though they did teach me how to stay on a bucking pony!!

We used to have a long drive (about 1/2 mile) from the farm to the road with ditched either side, and when you used to go out/come back it was like running the gauntlet!! Usually on a warm day, when you'd been working hard and were moseying back up the drive on the end of your reins they would jump out screeching and flapping!!!
 
There are so many of them here that the ponies are just about immune to them.

However, more challenging is that we will ride around a corner on a quiet lane to find ourselves suddenly with beaters on one side of the road, waving huge white flags, driving head-height pheasants by the dozen straight across us into a volley of fire from the guns only 20ft away on the other side.

That is what I call desensitising!
 
you think that is bad, try herons in the somerset levels, they wait to make sure you are right next to them then take off vertical from the ditch!
 
we have so many that mine are now utterly immune to them - although tripping over them in long grass so that they suddenly go racketing off, is guaranteed to give me heart failure, even if the ponies are unperturbed.

)I did manage to hatch some out under a broody bantam this year and can confirm that they are borne with suicidal tendencies as they are determined to die from the moment they are hatched).

Likewise mine now think nothing of a herd of fallow deer leaping across our path, and even rutting bucks don't seem to elicit anything more than mild curiousity. Mountain bikers on the other hand cause a massive meltdown!
 
A pheasant is directly responsible for me executing a spectacular unplanned dismount and leaving a perfect bum print in the ploughed field we were hacking next too. Bloomin creatures, only good place for them is cooking in the Aga!!
 
They do make me jump when they fly up with all that squarking; I did once jump so much that I nearly fell off the back of the horse. We have lots of them about, I try and sing to scare them away before I get to them.
 
Guinea fowl are hated in our area too...they just mooch around making noises and run at last minute and also sit in trees and fly off as you go under tree - well, fly is wrong word, they plummett towards you....and are definitely in cahoots with the pheasants. Deer are shocking if seen for our horses - not many but we also have a heron or two and water fowl that exit the river through the trees, normally towards the horse. All character building....NOT! suppose we are lucky to be able to ride through nature tho' :)!!!!
 
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I am confused as to why evolution has allowed these fairly useless animals to remain!!!

I call them Lemmings, as when you're driving down a country lane near us, they sit on a fence bordering the road. They wait until you are level until they decide to fly down onto the road in front of you!!! Stupid STUPID creatures.

And surely evolution would have taught them, if you are well hidden, but something which may be a potential predator passes close by, stay quiet. Do not wait until the last second before leaping in front of said potential predator, flapping and making as much noise as you can whilst running away....FLY YOU STUPID ANIMALS YOU HAVE WINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I hack out with my springer spaniel - he clears all pheasants out of the way before we get there - sometimes by snatching them out of the air as the awkward lummoxes try to take off.... and if there's anything my young Arab is scared of, I just call him back to show that it isn't eating the spaniel, so it's safe..... and my Arab has confidence in both my dogs, and will follow their lead even if it IS against his better judgment!
 
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