Agent Orange and other Military Industrial Comles weapon has done awy with lots of the worlds wildlife,plus the defprestation of their habitats. Draughts ,floods and toxi waters. Down here the unsupervised growers,ranchers and bottling companys liek Nestlrs,Coca Cola and foreign sugar growers have about destroyed the worlds largest natural springs and waters. Now its the animals soon it will be humans. We fought it it in the 'Save Our Springs ' group but lost to lying politicians.Including Desantis who promised to save our springs and Floridas EverGlades.Not sure if it was Desantis fault or he had to deal.
Can You Raise Pheasants with Chickens? Can pheasants be raised with chickens? Yes, and anyone who says otherwise is perhaps lazy, or doesn’t know much about pheasants. Pheasants can be raised with chickens, but it takes some thought and preparation. When people begin to raise chickens it is often fun and rewarding. This may spark the idea of raising other birds, and whether or not these other bird varieties can be raised with their chickens. This article discusses what needs to be adjusted when adding pheasants to your backyard flock based on our personal experience doing so. (Read More)
That was interesting. I almost stopped reading too soon. Wondered whether pheasants could be contained inside a high fence like chickens. "If you don’t have a lot of room for the pheasants to roam, then you will need to provide as much room as possible and close the pheasant/chicken run in. You will create essentially an aviary for the birds. This can be accomplished with bird netting overtop of the chicken/pheasant yard. Without the netting the pheasants can just fly over fences and escape." Otherwise you have to tape their wings. They wouldn't last long roaming free here. This is too far south anyway. I suppose you would have the same problems raising quail here.
Interesting. I've got a large lot and am surrounded by farms. I wonder if I can get some pheasants and let them fend for themselves without having to buy feed & such. The state requires me to obtain a license to raise them to sell, but I don't see anything prohibiting me from just setting some free...they're not an invasive species. Hmmmm....
The PA Game Commission raises pheasants from eggs and releases them in predetermined locations before hunting season. What doesn't get bagged never makes it to the next season because of predation etc. They don't breed in the wild as far as I know. Next year it's the same put and take.
One article about raising them said that pheasants make horrible mothers...at least the ones raised in captivity. The breeder said that out of 8 hatchlings, 7 froze to death one night because the mother did not sit with them, and she left the 8th to nearly drown in a mud puddle (rescued by the breeder.) After I read that, I wondered how any survive in the wild.
They are beautiful birds. It's interesting that your first post in this thread said "Last Seen: Rural Midwest." My father and older brother used to hunt them in the 4H field right behind our house in central Indiana. Actually, I don't think they hunted all that much, I imagine they just went out when they thought they saw something. I don't recall seeing any in Virginia (lived here since 1963), but they are kinda skittish.
@John Brunner I always admired their beauty, too. I don't recall ever eating pheasant. Years back, when our old garage doors were one piece, with a rubber flap along the bottom.....one Fall morning, I found a female pheasant dead, and curled up under the shelter of the flap. It had a band on it, from when it was released by the PA game commission. It hadn't been shot, just came to an end.
Had to stop on our way home yesterday for one lazy cock pheasant who took his time crossing the road. They’re still quite common here.