Golden pheasant colour?

[P-heasant]

Hi,

I recently bought a Golden Pheasant hen fathered by a red golden.

Iv read many different things, should be olive legs and should be orange/yellow?

What should the correct colour be?

Also any info on the orange hue on her beak and eye?

Thanks

 

[ColtHandorf]

@007Sean knows pheasants better than most. Perhaps he can give you some helpful advice.

 

[Midnightman14]

Hybrid. Legs are wrong for both species and the chest is wrong for a golden.

 

[P-heasant]

Hybrid. Legs are wrong for both species and the chest is wrong for a golden.

Great thanks, what should I be looking for in the chest? And have you any images of a pure? (I am in the UK) so I feel like hybrids are probably nationwide for us now which is a shame.

 

[007Sean]

Can you post some more pics, from different angles?....side, top, back, etc....the olive color legs don't bother me, lots of Golden hens have olive color legs. The red/pink around the eye is a little troubling....some do have a reddish color eye lid but not the much surrounding the eyes.

 

[P-heasant]

Can you post some more pics, from different angles?....side, top, back, etc....the olive color legs don't bother me, lots of Golden hens have olive color legs. The red/pink around the eye is a little troubling....some do have a reddish color eye lid but not the much surrounding the eyes.

I added another hen from a different farm here, where her leg is much more yellow and has slightly redder/orange feather tail. Original post is about the red clipped hen Yellow hue feathers on head and also the red around the eye


I did try to get closer but didn’t want to stress her. She’s also only 15 weeks old

 

[P-heasant]

Here’s some closer

Can you post some more pics, from different angles?....side, top, back, etc....the olive color legs don't bother me, lots of Golden hens have olive color legs. The red/pink around the eye is a little troubling....some do have a reddish color eye lid but not the much surrounding the eyes.

 

[007Sean]

View attachment 3228264View attachment 3228267View attachment 3228262I added another hen from a different farm here, where her leg is much more yellow and has slightly redder/orange feather tail. Original post is about the red clipped henView attachment 3228266Yellow hue feathers on head and also the red around the eye


I did try to get closer but didn’t want to stress her. She’s also only 15 weeks old

She could possibly have some crossbreeeding in her ancestry, her tail feathers don't look like a Goldens but that will probably change on her next molt. The yellow 'flakes' of her crest feathers would indicate she is a Golden. I have many Goldens and their leg color varies from yellow to olive.. The other hen looks to be Golden and the cockbird as well.

 

[P-heasant]

Thanks for your help!!

You’ve given me a little hope now. Hopefully her chicks will be more like the others. Try and push out whatever her line has in it

Many thanks