That usually works really well. However, someone took my Rottweiler mix (she was so friendly, I am sure she just followed someone into their car, and broke their heart lol), and that's the night the 'coons ate all my pheasant brains. Apparently brains are the part they will focus on when food is plentiful.
Bear eat the brains and eggs of salmon when the fishing is good, and leave the rest for the birds. Birds don't mind the free fish, so nothing gets wasted on the spawning grounds, like it does when you end up with 40 headless pheasants of a morning.
You can only eat so many pheasants, and if you don't have a freezer (a homestead essential, but we were just starting out in an old school bus) there's not much you can do.
Perhaps it's time to build an electric fence to protect your animals.
What animals? Coons ate their brains, ending my exotic pheasant enterprise.