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Keep em pure! Too much mixed crap out there as it is. And some how the mixed crap gets out to the general public intended or not. One day you might want a pure red golden , Lady Amhearst, Elliots or maybe a Reeves. Remember what you see here. Or it might be "Aw dang man I thought he was a pure...."
 
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As much as the majority of recent comments are in favor of keeping pure pheasants I am a little shocked. I can see where you folks fear the glorifying of hybrids as some new fad that might cross a species out of existence. However I also see many comments about how much of a travesty it would be for a novice to mistakenly get these "mutts" thinking that they are pure and thus breeding them into pure lines.

I guess all I'm saying is why not use these pics as a way to educate the novices on how to spot a hybrid and thus avoid breeding it? Afterall, sometimes the hybrids look very similar to the real deal....especially the hens.

Try as you might, some folks will always do what they want. So why not try to find something useful in these photos? I know when I first had pheasants I would have been overjoyed to find photos showing how to spot an Amherst/Golden hybrid hen. I'm not saying everyone should go out and make all the hybrids they want......I'm just saying you know as well as I do that some folks will make them no matter what but maybe photos like these can become a useful tool to help preserve the pure ones.
 
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I encourage and challenge everyone new here to read this whole entire thread . You must start at the very beginning so you can truly see the big picture. Lots of pics and everyones thoughts and views shared here. Very educational in my opinion.
 
@ vcomb: There are so many other resources out there that one can find out what a pure, wild species should look like. My feeling is that since there is such resentment towards hybrid pheasants, his/her photos were posted just to incite a reaction. They got one, probably sitting back and laughing about it with their other hybrid breeding buddies (most already know who they are - seems like a handful of them that troll around forums doing this).

One of the problems I've noticed is that people want the information fed to them, they don't want to go out and research on their own. Johnsgard has had a chart that has been in print for more than 20 years on the results of what happens when each species is bred to another. It's a cop out to say someone needs to do this for educational purposes. The work has already been done, published, no need to go further other than to create their own sick "wildlife art". I've said it before, no wonder the rest of the aviculture world usually turn their noses on pheasant aviculture. Could you imagine the fury that would erupt if these were softbills or hookbills?! Pheasants are just as important and just as fragile. We can just sit on our hands and condone it, in a hundred years a few of these species will grace the same book as the Carolina Parakeet, Passenger Pigeon, Alaotra Grebe, etc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8702000/8702598.stm

Not only are the hybrids disturbing, the use of blinders on pheasants is really appalling. This whole thread is sad - I'd wish it were removed or labeled WHAT NOT TO DO.

Go to http://www.iucnredlist.org/ and enter "Pheasants" as a search term. Even species that are listed as "Least Concern" are decreasing. It's just going to get worse.

Dan Cowell
 

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