Tough as old boots at this stage of their lives, not good eating unless slow cooked. We have a couple that wander about the garden looking slightly bewildered, as they do. I've got them easily in the sights but just can't pull the trigger. Same goes for the ducks that sit on the roof, and the two pairs of Collared Doves that are bound for life and perform their mating rituals every year.
As said, Spring isn't shooting season.
Where I live is a huge pheasant shooting area. We have white, golden, black, and regular pheasants released, the majority being regular. The fancy ones score more points with the blustering, once a year, tweed cladded, pompous, disdainful visitors, who bring their office buddies. And not many of them actually hit the bird properly, and their token Labrador hasn't been properly trained to fetch the birds. My dogs are always eating or rolling in pheasant remains, or chewing up wounded birds.
Not to mention two broken windscreens on my car, and a swerve that nearly put me in the woods.
That said, I like the big old boy who struts round the garden. He gets porridge oats chucked out for him and drives my dogs to such distraction it's painful on my ear.
But no, not as a pet. They're suitably silly (like chickens) to keep as pets, but I've not heard of them as pets. I think you should get some Peacocks
