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Sounds good. I have 4 roosters, two are dominant. If a hen gets out and I toss her back, which ever of the two is closest breeds her. That is the only breeding I have seen actually, but they are still pretty young. I bet if I tossed a hen pheasant over the gate, they wouldn’t think twice.

I don’t think so but try them anyway. I don’t know about the bantams… as long as they don’t get squished!

It’s funny to me it seems more birds bend the rules about inter genus hybrids than those that actually follow them. Pheasants and chickens are pretty notorious for this. They are close enough related to hybridize but the hybrids usually turn out sterile. We hope to find out which pheasant...

I got a couple ringneck chicks from the feed store. I’m raising them with a batch of chickens the same age so they are used to them around breeding time. I found a guy with all sorts of pheasants but he refused to sell me chicks. He has Goldens, Mutants, Mongolians, Swinhoes, Silvers, and a...

That’s awesome! Hopefully some of them turn out fertile.

Those are yours?

Interesting. I was planning on getting a pair of each of jungle fowl and pheasant (tbd species) and doing a switcharoo. Plus a couple random hen chickens. Maybe instead, I’ll just look for unwanted pheasant roosters to shack up with the hens.

I have a couple questions. First, why do you always use a pheasant as the father? Is the cross more likely to be successful than with a pheasant mother? Second, how did the AI attempt go with the silver pheasants? I read your thread about them but there was no update. I want to try milking a...

YES! I’ve been looking for people working on this kind of project. I’m super excited to see where this goes. Hopefully some of the F1s are fertile. I wonder if pheasant X jungle fowl would be more likely to turn up fertile offspring. Maybe next year, if I can source the birds this year, I’ll be...