Cheapest pheasants

jackyann

When I first started posting here, it seemed that most winters someone would ask what do with pheasant: usually Old Stylers who had moved to the country and were surprised by the profusion of these tasty birds.

Anyway, the cheapest I have seen this year is at our local farmers' market: £4 for an oven-ready brace.
That's £1 a portion on paper, but actually I usually make them stretch a good bit further and always get soup & stock out of them.

Any advance on £4? They weren't offering them in feather.

armyknife

Roadkill.



Someone had to say it.

Islandmaid

We get ours for free - not by roadkill, but by friends who like to shoot

We,ve got a freezer full of pheasant, grouse, woodcock (very limited shooting) and sea bass - we trade for baked goods and fudge LOL

Locally pheasant are selling for about £5 per brace

Gigervamp

I saw some in Cardiff Market on Friday, but didn't look at the price. They weren't oven ready either!

Also, funnily enough, as we were driving through the lanes today, we went past a house where they had about 8 draped over the fence!

SailorSam

I don't think i've ever had phesant.

System

Islandmaid wrote: »

We get ours for free - not by roadkill, but by friends who like to shoot

We,ve got a freezer full of pheasant, grouse, woodcock (very limited shooting) and sea bass - we trade for baked goods and fudge LOL

Locally pheasant are selling for about £5 per brace

Wouldn't a fishing line be better for sea bass rather than trying to shoot them?

Mr_Singleton

Had a couple from Marylebone High street (London) about a fortnight ago and paid £10 which considering the location I don't think was too bad. They were oven ready.

Islandmaid

!!!!!! wrote: »

Wouldn't a fishing line be better for sea bass rather than trying to shoot them?

:rotfl::rotfl: we,ll give it a go

suki1964

Make friends with the local gun club. Never paid for a pheasant yet and they take pity on me being a former townie, and at least skin them ( plucking takes too long )

System

Never had a pheasant though hubby did bring one back embedded in the front of his car once when he was working on a school in the countryside. It cost him a fair bit to fix the car.

What's a brace?

Islandmaid

Judi wrote: »

Never had a pheasant though hubby did bring one back embedded in the front of his car once when he was working on a school in the countryside. It cost him a fair bit to fix the car.

What's a brace?

Judi - it's yokel for a pair