Plump Cock Pheasent

[DoOver]

I almost ran over a pheasent today. He was on the side of the road.
Brian

[DoOver]

What do you call grouse chicks?
How do you tell males and females apart?
Brian

[RUSS0079]

Brian,
You call grouse chicks, just that, Chicks. You can tell a male and female apart very easily. After you shoot them, take the fan and fan it out. If the black band is solid all the way around, its a male. If you have the band and the middle two feathers are duller than the others you have a female... Also the male will have a very pronounced black ruff around his neck, more so than the female..
Russ

[DoOver]

The reason I ask, this past March 1, my wife and I found a grouse sitting on the side of the road. We picked it up and brought it home. It was shot in the tail feathers. So she mended it up and we keep it for a couple of days before letting it go.
Early this spring we had a grouse follow us around and be a general nuisance of it self. It never fanned out like a male. One day after about two months of it's constant conpanionship, I picked it up. I held it for a few minutes and put it down. I haven't seen it since.
I was thinking this grouse was female but I didn't know how to identifie it.
Our grouse season ends the last day of Feb.
Hopefully I'll see her again in a couple of weeks.

Brian

[ACEarcher]

After they get a lil older you call them polts.

[DoOver]

That sounds right. This spring I saw the first grouse hen with about 15 chicks that I've seen in years. Goes in cycle here and every where it seems.
Brian

[ACEarcher]

No problem brian!

A lot of times the upland/small game populations is due to predator/prey ratios. The more prey around the higher the population of predators. Less pre then less predators. If you look at a pred/prey chart you'll see how the prey and predator lines compliment each other.

[RUSS0079]

The reason I ask, this past March 1, my wife and I found a grouse sitting on the side of the road. We picked it up and brought it home. It was shot in the tail feathers. So she mended it up and we keep it for a couple of days before letting it go.
Early this spring we had a grouse follow us around and be a general nuisance of it self. It never fanned out like a male. One day after about two months of it's constant conpanionship, I picked it up. I held it for a few minutes and put it down. I haven't seen it since.
I was thinking this grouse was female but I didn't know how to identifie it.
Our grouse season ends the last day of Feb.
Hopefully I'll see her again in a couple of weeks.

Brian

Maybe it was the same one you guys mended up! Animals are alittle strange sometimes.. I've seen them fan out before taking off from trees sometimesor when they're courting a female or getting ready to fight.. It's really cool to see that stuff when you spend time in the grouse woods..

[DoOver]

Observing wildlife, that's the best part of scouting, I think. I love watching and blending in. The trouble with hunting is I feel like I'm under pressure. Always trophy hunting.
Brian

[RUSS0079]

:confused:That's unfortunate, that you feel under pressure. I've been fortunate to hunt around the country and recenly in Africa. I refuse to feel pressure while I'm hunting. Alot of my pal's have killed Boone and Crockett and Pope and Young deer. I do hunt where there are some monsters, but haven't had one within shooting distance yet. I have taken deer in wilderness areas and they are my most prized trophies... The size of the antlers don't matter or the number of birds you bag, its the memories that make it so good... Leave the pressure at work... That's where it belongs.... Give me a pointer, a subgauge double and some aspens! We are in business!:thup: