[EggsAckley]

Tell ya what......you tell me where you live, and I'll come down there and wait til your dog or cat wanders a little ways off your property. Then I'll capture it, cut it's feet off, skin it...........hey, it's out in the wild, isn't it? Fair game................

[Still Using Air]

Not to start an arguement here, this is to help stop one...

"When the farm folded decades ago, many of the birds were simply let loose. They have strutted the area ever since."

This implies to me that the birds were free ranging, belonging to noone in particular.