Derogatory remark, all I did was quote him, you are the ones who misread my intent. He said blah, blah, blah period and then said some more blah, blah, blah period. His use of "period" is an interjection, I guess, and not a bodily function like you and the kid surmised. Some people just have dirty minds .

I just read your link and didn't see much of anything that drastically conflicted with much of anything I posted. I may not be a hundred percent right, it doesn't make me wrong either. Most of this stuff I learned the hard way, it's a process. Mostly just some ideas and stuff that has worked for me in the past and some things that went wrong also.

Back on topic, if you get young birds that want to peck the others, toss them out to fend for themselves quick. They will infect the other younguns and you'll have them all doing it. Nothing says you can't trickle release after the first molt. You can release some young and keep others longer, depends on the size of your pen. You don't have to release them all at once.

The bitties I get are way wild genetically and seem to go full wild quick, if they don't get eaten quick.

You also have to think about where you are going to release. Good cover, food and water in that priority. Young ones are food for anything from Jays, to Hawks or whatever, good cover is important. The best is a hedge or brush with thorns, on the edge of a field. They tend to head for the lower places, like brush on the sides of a farm road near a ditch.

Predators often den or nest in just the same places as Pheasants prefer to live, which is unlikely to be an accident.