In the 80s i worked on a place where chicken farming took on a whole new meaning .46,000 pheasants and 16,000 partridge on 17000 acres .The first drives of the year were met with waves of birds taking the leaves off the trees.Double gun days for invites with loaders taking cartridges from a tractor and trailer after every drive .It was said the speed loader was invented there .Couldnt drive round the internal estate roads without hitting birds in the truck .4000 of the pheasants were white with another 1000 approx being a mix of reeves ,lady amerhurst and red,orange golden with a bounty on the