first ringneck egg!

[kip]

Hello i've just picked my first ringneck egg of the year

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I've got 3 hens and a rooster with my younger brother.
I hope my Hungarian partridges start laying soon .
I've noticed that some of you already have ringneck eggs in the bator, when do ringnecks start laying in the USA?

 

[Franzen Farms]

Mine started about 2 weeks ago, I have 40 hens and were getting 15-20 eggs a day so far.

 

[cathunter10]

mine started the last of feb We have hatched some chicks so far we have the bater full of rn,melinistic& alaskan snows and getting more eggs every day.
Bill

 

[kip]

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Do you raise them for hunting perphoses or do you sell them to just everyone that wants them?

My father has an hoop style greenhouse (8x16 meters) and we used half the greenhouse as a pen but we made it when we were inexperienced so it is not predator proof.
We want to make it into a giant pen with 5 sections:
1 for my younger brothers couple of mandarins (2x8 meters),
1 section for something like 10 ringnecks (2x8 meters),
a section for mu Hungarian partridges ( 2x 4 meters),
a section for their chicks( also 2x 4 meters)
and a big section for the offspring of the ringnecks with some brooder huts in it ( 6x 8 meters).

 

[Franzen Farms]

Quote:
Do you raise them for hunting perphoses or do you sell them to just everyone that wants them?

My father has an hoop style greenhouse (8x16 meters) and we used half the greenhouse as a pen but we made it when we were inexperienced so it is not predator proof.
We want to make it into a giant pen with 5 sections:
1 for my younger brothers couple of mandarins (2x8 meters),
1 section for something like 10 ringnecks (2x8 meters),
a section for mu Hungarian partridges ( 2x 4 meters),
a section for their chicks( also 2x 4 meters)
and a big section for the offspring of the ringnecks with some brooder huts in it ( 6x 8 meters).

We raise pheasants and quail for Taxidermist, field trials, dog trainers, falconers, and some farmers who are trying to get wildlife on their farm again, etc. We have them in a 100'x350' x14'high pen that we will probably be building another one this year.

 

[kip]

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Nice looking flight pen!
I've got some questions:
Are the sides of the pen also net or are they wire or tin roof plates or something?
Do you have problems with raptors/ corvids that tear the net if they want to take an pheasant or net?
Is your breeding flock also in a pen with plants and is that a problem with egg gathering?
Can i see a pic of your birds?

 

[Franzen Farms]

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Nice looking flight pen!
I've got some questions:
Are the sides of the pen also net or are they wire or tin roof plates or something?
Do you have problems with raptors/ corvids that tear the net if they want to take an pheasant or net?
Is your breeding flock also in a pen with plants and is that a problem with egg gathering?
Can i see a pic of your birds?

Sides of the pen are 7' tall pvc coated wire with a hot wire to protect against predators. my breeding pens are 50'x50' with the grass cut shorter for easier egg collecting.

 

[kip]

Nice looking birds!
Are that manchurians and melanistic mutants?
I heared manchurians only lay 20 eggs a year, because of that pure manchurians are expensive in Holland (€30.- a bird, something like $42.-...).

 

[Franzen Farms]

Melanistics

 

[kip]

Is the bird in the first 2 pics also a melanistic pheasant?
Your breeding pens are huge!
Can i put 6-7 week olds in the same flight pen as the birds from earlier hatches without peepers? Peepers are illegal here and i will plant corn,millet, small evergreens and brushes for cover so the smaller birds can hide from the bigger ones and they'll have something to pick at instead of picking each other.