DICKINSON - Two men here said they started a business that cleans game birds for hunters after seeing too many pheasants discarded in trash bins.

Blaine Dukart said he found up to 100 birds last weekend thrown away at hotels where out-of-state hunters typically stay.

"It was pretty sad. I thought at least this would give them an incentive," he said.

For $5 per bird, Dukart and his partner Jeff Winch are on call to clean, bag and freeze pheasants for hunters.

Dukart said cleaning each bird takes about 10 minutes, and they are willing to pick up birds when the hunters return to town.

"I hunt myself and have always had a place to clean them, so I thought why not clean them for someone else?" Dukart said.

Dukart said all of their customers have been nonresidents and they've cleaned a few hundred birds so far.

"It's really not that many considering probably 20,000 birds were shot the first week," Dukart said. "I still found some unused birds that were thrown away, but you're always going to have that."