How tall do pheasant enclosures need to be? I Tried to check this thread a few times to see if anyone mentioned height but i could only find the length being discussed.
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How tall do pheasant enclosures need to be? I Tried to check this thread a few times to see if anyone mentioned height but i could only find the length being discussed.
mr cowell can you please share some pics of your avairiesHeight is important as well, I will admit, I haven't read any portion of this thread at all aside from your question and probably for the best to keep me from getting in trouble!! Many species of pheasants love to perch and even forage high in the aviary. When I kept pheasants, the shortest allowed me to stand in without ducking (it was a little over 6') and my tallest was 16'. I had several that were 8' and one 12'. I planted trees and shrubs inside and wanted to allow room for their growth (there are some photos of my old aviaries on this forum on a similar thread). The trees were getting just about perfect when I was forced to give them all up, the thickness of the branches allowed me to place fruits and other treats that pheasants would feed on and use the trees as natural enrichment. I should have mentioned that first, if the aviary is 100 foot tall and has nothing in it to enrich the bird, it's worthless!!! You can create layers in the aviary using logs, rocks, the plantings, the only thing limiting you would be $$$ and your imagination!! Using these techniques you practically double the square footage the birds can move around on and get them to behave as they would in the wild. Study up on the natural habitat of the species you are working with and try to replicate that habitat to the best of your ability within your aviary.
Dan
mr cowell can you please share some pics of your avairies
thanks for sharing, it is heartbreaking when you loose everthing I tried for my second time now, first time I have finches, ornamental ducks and pheasants, parakeet and dove species one day I have it all the following day nothing, now I only go noiw for the available galiformes speciesI no longer have any pheasant aviaries, lost them all 3 years ago. I miss the hell out of them and one day will rebuild for the third time.
I posted these on here a while back with the progression of years & plan growth. It was basically a timeline of 6 years when it all went away. I've been by the old place and saw they cut all my plantings and tore all the pens down.
Summer 2004, Lineated Kalij
Outside view of the Lineated aviary, summer 2008.
This was my mixed species aviary - waterfowl, pheasants, & small humans. Summer 2007
Same aviary with diagram and a Swinhoe Pheasant. The top net reached to 16' to allow for the rapid growth of the willows which needed constant pruning. Both in this pic were planted in 2003, date of pic the same as above.
Landscaping interior of Elliot's aviary. The male would like to stand at about 5' to observe around him.
Some other pics scattered around gbwf, I lost my hard-drive in April, therefore all of the pics!! Not gonna lie, I love to share these, but man it breaks my heart to see them.
Dan