Green pheasants?

[muscovy94]

Hey I am considering buying some green pheasant eggs I found. Are green pheasants just a color mutation of the ringneck? Because I heard something about green pheasants being japanese or something? They are the same species as regular ringnecks, right?

 

[turkaholic]

You are probably refering to the Green mutation ringnecks, sometimes called green melanistics. They are a mutation of the common ringneck and in no way the same as the Japanese Green Pheasant, a separate species and very different in plumage pattern. True Japanese greens are hard to come by, and unlikely someone would be offering eggs, but I guess you could be lucky!

 

[HIS Paintbrush]

Ok, the Japanese pheasants are a completely different species than the Chinese ringneck

. So where can a person get these? I asked this because I posted a few picks of them I pulled off the web. They are completely beautiful and unlike any ring necks I've seen.