11-20-2009, 04:17 PM
We actually did use dogs for flushing and retrieving birds. At the end of the day everyone was given a brace of birds and the rest were sold to markets, the money made was put back into the estate fund to raise more birds. They also had several different types of partridge. The Gray Partridge looked like our Huns and the French Partridge looked like our Chukers. They thought I was wierd to clean my birds on Sat. and then have one for dinner on Sunday. In England they hang the whole bird uncleaned in a shed for a week to 10 days to age before cleaning. I never did try one to eat so I can't tell you how they tasted but they claimed that was how your best pheasant under glass was prepared in the best restaurants. They kind of looked at me like I was some type of cannibal for not aging my birds.[crazy]
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