Game Fair gadgets
We were at the CLA Game Fair 2009 at Belvoir Castle, looking for truly innovative kit. The CLA held awards for innovations. Among the contenders are a dogbed that dries your dog, a new trailer for carrying both deer and quadbikes, a dummy launcher for training your dog and a new portable game larder
White pheasants
Canal Game Farm is producing them for estates all over the country – the white pheasant is (a) a useful marker for other birds or (b) a pain in the neck that can earn you a fine of £50+ if you shoot it, depending on whether you are (1) a gamekeeper or (2) a hapless […]
English grey partridge conservation
Canal Game Farm is delivering English greys partridges at the start of the partridge shooting season – but these ones are not for shooting. They have been bought as part of farmer Tim Piper’s conservation effort. He has planted habitat suitable for them. Shocked that there were no native grey partridges to live in his […]
Game farm – chicks arrive
Some 36,000 partridge chicks are on their way to Canal Game Farm at the end of April. Staff are there to make sure they settle in and start the long slow process that will see them delivered to shoots as full-grown birds in just a few months time. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
Game farm – hut building
It’s flatpack hell at Canal Game Farm as staff set up the brooder huts. They took them down at the end of last season and now, at the beginning of April, they are reassembling them. Watch all the preparations they make for the arrival of the baby birds. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
