Originally posted by Miranda_Rae
As for pheasants, people are only allowed to hunt the roasters. The reason behind that is because the roasters will stand on top of the females during the winter months to stay away from the snow, and then the females die. If all the females die then it would become harder for them to breed. I'm not saying that they would all go extinct but there wouldn't be as many females to have babies.
You are allowed to harvest hen pheasants. The ROOSTER pheasants do not stand on top of hens to stay out of the snow- where the heck did ya hear such a thing? The main killer of pheasants during the winter months is heavy predation (mainly from coyotes), freezing to death, and starvation. Hens do not die from roosters standing on them in the snow.

Also- there is plenty of food for coyotes. We actually need more coyotes to control the small animal population that is getting way out control. They keep entering heavily populated areas though, sadly, which is not good. .The reason why there are so many coyotes, is because there is enough food in the niche to supply them. Their main diet is rabbits, mice, and other rodents- there are plenty of those in Wisconsin and Minnesota!