Golden pheasants and power tools?!

[Susan Skylark]

We’ve been working on a larger run for our golden pheasant pair, our workspace and bird space is the garage. They’ve gotten fairly chill with the idea of people, assuming they can see you and you don’t do anything unexpected (like come through a different door!). But as we were working on the frame, the male ducked down in a corner and sat there ‘whimpering’ like a dog afraid of fireworks, I couldn’t figure out what was wrong as we weren’t bothering him at all and the quail were completely fine (but they are pretty oblivious!). Then I figured out he doesn’t like the drill, to a high strung bird those high pitched noises must be rather irksome! Poor guy, who knew pheasants prefer hand tools! Maybe he’s an Amish pheasant?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Here my turkeys always love the sound of the drill and will get excited and call and display. Pheasant are afraid of everything and never seem to get used to stuff, but we never kept ours long term.