Can you clip a Red Legged Partridge wings like a pheasant?

[Cgorm88 0]

Could anyone advise me if you can clip a Red Legged Partridge wings like you can with pheasants?

[shovel leaner 7,650]

I’ve never heard of clipping partridge wings . You clip pheasant wings , when you put them to wood ( in your release pen) , it just helps to stop the whole lot flying over the wire before they have had chance to acclimatise and know where home is . The way partridge are released is different. Normally they are kept in covered flights ( pens) and then after a few days you start to trickle a few out each day . There is no need to clip them .

[deeley24 72]

Why in the world would you clip partridge