No doubt Parabola will correct me, but here in England pheasants were hung for about four days, intact, and only then plucked and drawn.
Most of the big estates had a purpose-built Game house somewhere downwind of the Manor. There is a very smart octagonal one to this day just a mile from here, built by the local millionaire (who made his fortune selling shovels to the Australian Gold Rush miners in 1855)
But that was before global warming.
Now I hang them for only two days before plucking and drawing. As I have rather big hands my wife has to do the drawing bit...
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