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[Kiki]

And another one gone, and another one gone!

Ridiculous huh.

 

[RUNuts]

Ridiculous huh.

No. Queen did that one.

 

[RUNuts]

@BantyChooks What warning label is on the Queen albums?

Caution: contains high levels of Mercury.

 

[BantyChooks]

@BantyChooks What warning label is on the Queen albums?

Caution: contains high levels of Mercury.

That one got a chuckle and an eye roll out of me. So funny.

 

[007Sean]

WHAT U SAY!??? mOre info please pretty pretty please!!!

Ok here's some pics of day old, week old, 12 to 24 week olds, and fully grown melanistic pheasants. This way of sexing will only work on melanistic. Will not work on any of the other True pheasants.

Day old male melanistic

Males will have white around the eye, neck and breast to about mid abdomen. Also will have white primaries on wing

Day old female melanistic

Week old female melanistic

Female melanistics will have only a crescent shaped white patch under the neck. It will also have white primaries.

12 to 14 week old male and female melanistics

Males are starting to get adult plumage. Still have white feathers around the neck and white primaries.
Females nearly have adult plumage. Still some white under neck. The white primaries have been replaced with brown barred primaries (adult).

Female melanistic 14 weeks

Male and female 16 weeks

Adult feathering Male melanistic 20 to 24 weeks.

Males may or may not have a ring of white around the neck, or may have a thin, incomplete line such as the one above.

Female melanistic 20 to 24 weeks

Females will have dark chocolate brown feathering, darker almost black tips on feathers. The neck feathers will have an iridescent pink, green or purple glow, especially on the nape.

 

[BullChick]

I have not turned the heat lamp back on since letting the week-olds play outside. They were quiet even when I was chilly inside. It’s back up to seventy in the house. We want to keep this small batch inside a while (we’ll see!), but I might put them out very soon!

 

[Kiki]

I just finished candling the rest of the eggs and I'm subtracting two more.

 

[muddy75]

Ok here's some pics of day old, week old, 12 to 24 week olds, and fully grown melanistic pheasants. This way of sexing will only work on melanistic. Will not work on any of the other True pheasants.

Day old male melanistic
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Males will have white around the eye, neck and breast to about mid abdomen. Also will have white primaries on wing

Day old female melanistic
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Week old female melanistic
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Female melanistics will have only a crescent shaped white patch under the neck. It will also have white primaries.

12 to 14 week old male and female melanistics


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Males are starting to get adult plumage. Still have white feathers around the neck and white primaries.
Females nearly have adult plumage. Still some white under neck. The white primaries have been replaced with brown barred primaries (adult).

Female melanistic 14 weeks
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Male and female 16 weeks

Adult feathering Male melanistic 20 to 24 weeks.
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Males may or may not have a ring of white around the neck, or may have a thin, incomplete line such as the one above.
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Female melanistic 20 to 24 weeks
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Females will have dark chocolate brown feathering, darker almost black tips on feathers. The neck feathers will have an iridescent pink, green or purple glow, especially on the nape.

based on that most of mine seem to be females! the only one with Yellow/white around the eyes died first....i will try to get better pics tomorrow

 

[muddy75]

I've only just candled half of the eggs and.... Another one bites the dust.
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I just got finished watching a lot of Zach/Myshire's YouTube videos.

amazing eggtopsy pic butfor your current batch!

 

[Kiki]

Started with 43
10 clears
3 early quitters
11 died from the mess up
19 left