Trimming feathers will only make them run as far as they would of flown. Plus it will be easy for predators to get them. There is absolutly no way to free range a pheasant. Get a fully covered pen. Or don't get pheasants.
Ok so I have a pair of blue eared. That I have had for five years. Yesterday I went out to feed and he had beaten the hen. Scalp her. So I seperated them. She should make it. Just a little beat up. But my question is. Can I put them together again when she heals? Or will he just keep beating her...
I have all my pheasants in pairs. And each pair in its own 12x12 pen. I put the doves and Chukar in with the pheasants. And I keep the quail on wire. So nope I don't mix them. They cost to much to replace if they kill each other. So I just play it safe.
Well, I just got my new pair of temminck. And I love them. They are a pretty neat bird. Just need to tame them down a bit now. That runs my total to a even dozen different breeds now.
Silver are very easy birds to keep. They tame down nicely. Some will eat out of your hands. I keep mine in a 10 x 10 pen and they do great. I feed them all sorts of fruits, greens, scratch, pellets. They do good in the cold. They are sometimes aggressive to theirs hens during breeding season...
A peacock pheasant is a species of pheasant that is all its own. There are grey, palawan, Malayan, and mountain. Their tails fan out like peacock. But they are small like a pheasant. They are pretty tuff to raise. Because they are very temperature sensitive. And they are also pretty spendy. But...