Our new Ring Neck Pheasant

MOOSE1 · 05-04-2009, 07:44 PM

Here is my project pheasant. he looks pretty bad. I didn't thik he would look this bad....Oh well. I am going to do weekly pics of him. If you can't tell he has very short tail feathers and he has like all his feathers missing on back.

So here is Pheasant on Day 1...

snwflk · 05-04-2009, 09:30 PM

Is it for EATIN or a' Pettin?

Chrystalstar · 05-04-2009, 10:31 PM

poor boy, it looks like he was at the wrong end of that fight. they are pretty tough though, and he should make a full recovery.

MOOSE1 · 05-04-2009, 10:33 PM

He is for egg making

He has 3 pretty little ladies to keep him company.

MOOSE1 · 10-18-2009, 02:57 PM

Just thought I would update on our Pheasant. He sure is a pretty bird now! And we now have a total of 18 pheasant. 9 roosters and 9 hens. Just about time to start taking them to the hunting preserve. I would like to go through winter with half that many if not a few less. We are thinking about keeping 2 Rooster and 4-5 hens. We will see. First picture is of this same rooster:

The rest are just some of his buddies. They are in a much larger enclosure now. We built a nice flight pen for them:

roguemare · 10-18-2009, 06:13 PM

what state are you in? I'm in Sd...sooo...lots of pheasants...I have 4 roosters that are hiding out up by my house...they've been eatin with my chicken roosters...

MOOSE1 · 10-18-2009, 06:35 PM

We are in MI. No real wild pheasant here. Well not near me anyway. And the ones that are out there are few and far between. So we have to work on pen raised pheasant. I wish we had wild!

farmergal · 10-18-2009, 10:00 PM

He sure did bloom into a beautiful bird.

So did you have a successful mating or did you purchase more birds?

Terry · 10-18-2009, 10:07 PM

Wow, what a transformation. He's beautiful.

MOOSE1 · 10-19-2009, 08:21 AM

We did have a nice hatch of baby birds this year. But a storm early in the year whiped them out. A friend of mine raises game birds for a living so I bought some young ones (3 week olds) from him and raised them. Those are the ones that are in the pictures as his buddies. The are about 4-5 months old now.

WickedNag · 10-19-2009, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by roguemare

what state are you in? I'm in Sd...sooo...lots of pheasants...I have 4 roosters that are hiding out up by my house...they've been eatin with my chicken roosters...

Bet right now they are going to stay as close as they can with hunting season started. I think it has been two years since my brother shot an albino. Was he ever pretty! He took him to a taxidermist.

The Ringneck Pheasant is SD's state bird for those who didn't know.

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05-04-2009, 07:44 PM
MOOSE1 Yearling Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 668	Our new Ring Neck Pheasant Here is my project pheasant. he looks pretty bad. I didn't thik he would look this bad....Oh well. I am going to do weekly pics of him. If you can't tell he has very short tail feathers and he has like all his feathers missing on back. So here is Pheasant on Day 1... __________________ Beth, www.bnjappaloosas.com GiGi-Palamino Appaloosa Mare

05-04-2009, 09:30 PM
snwflk Started Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Colorado Posts: 2,463	Is it for EATIN or a' Pettin? __________________ Suzie Q

05-04-2009, 10:31 PM
Chrystalstar Halter broke Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alberta Posts: 185	poor boy, it looks like he was at the wrong end of that fight. they are pretty tough though, and he should make a full recovery.

05-04-2009, 10:33 PM
MOOSE1 Yearling Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 668	He is for egg making He has 3 pretty little ladies to keep him company. __________________ Beth, www.bnjappaloosas.com GiGi-Palamino Appaloosa Mare

10-18-2009, 02:57 PM
MOOSE1 Yearling Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 668	Just thought I would update on our Pheasant. He sure is a pretty bird now! And we now have a total of 18 pheasant. 9 roosters and 9 hens. Just about time to start taking them to the hunting preserve. I would like to go through winter with half that many if not a few less. We are thinking about keeping 2 Rooster and 4-5 hens. We will see. First picture is of this same rooster: The rest are just some of his buddies. They are in a much larger enclosure now. We built a nice flight pen for them: __________________ Beth, www.bnjappaloosas.com GiGi-Palamino Appaloosa Mare

10-18-2009, 06:13 PM
roguemare Yearling Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Dakota Posts: 634	what state are you in? I'm in Sd...sooo...lots of pheasants...I have 4 roosters that are hiding out up by my house...they've been eatin with my chicken roosters... __________________ "Saving a horse may not change the world, but it will change the world for one horse." Melanie Bowles, founder of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary

10-18-2009, 06:35 PM
MOOSE1 Yearling Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 668	We are in MI. No real wild pheasant here. Well not near me anyway. And the ones that are out there are few and far between. So we have to work on pen raised pheasant. I wish we had wild! __________________ Beth, www.bnjappaloosas.com GiGi-Palamino Appaloosa Mare

10-18-2009, 10:00 PM
farmergal Kid Safe Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: New York Posts: 6,063	He sure did bloom into a beautiful bird. So did you have a successful mating or did you purchase more birds? __________________ Knowlege is out there, you just need to know where to look.

10-18-2009, 10:07 PM
Terry Yearling Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 973	Wow, what a transformation. He's beautiful. __________________ In loving memory of Roxy - 00-08. RIP my sweet girl. Proud Army Mom.

10-19-2009, 08:21 AM
MOOSE1 Yearling Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 668	We did have a nice hatch of baby birds this year. But a storm early in the year whiped them out. A friend of mine raises game birds for a living so I bought some young ones (3 week olds) from him and raised them. Those are the ones that are in the pictures as his buddies. The are about 4-5 months old now. __________________ Beth, www.bnjappaloosas.com GiGi-Palamino Appaloosa Mare