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P. Stanton, Lancashire

In another location, not many miles from those pens, is a farm that hosts training days for field trials. There are about six small pens in one field with birds in and I watched someone go in and open the doors so the birds could get out. Judging from the food hoppers and water, these birds will be shut in again tonight. This was on 13 September; all game should be released by 1 September.

In another field, half beet and the rest maize, there are eight to 10 of these small pens, all shut and with netting over the top. They appear to be empty — as does the field except for a few pheasant poults — but there is a training day on Tuesday next week, so are the partridges from the big pens being moved to fill the crop with birds so that people can have a retrieve or are they moving the birds from the smaller pens?

I hope not but I am confused and a little worried that these