I live on a farm and we raise pheasants. I have went and shot farm raised pheasants I didn't typically enjoy it cause I knew they were tame. The thing I didn't like is these people took mallards and fed them in a pond everyday at the same time. They would get clients to set up on this pond before dark and just at light someone down the creek would let them out of the pen, they would fly right to their feeding pond and get smoked. I thought this was piss poor lazy rich boy hunting!

Howdy! Seems like I have read that some other states do the same thing. There are many game bird farms here in Texas where you can hunt pen-raised pheasant, quail, and chukars. Whether or not pen-raised pheasants can legally be mixed into a wild population of pheasants in Texas, I do not know and is a question that TPWD could better answer. On the other hand, pen-raised birds usually do not live long in the wild. I have hunted pen-raised pheasants once and had a great time! A good topic of conversation that others should share their views as well!  Take care!