These were an eBay buy. I think I posted the seller earlier. We'll see what hatches. Most of the eggs developed but we will see.
Awesome! Congrats to James (and Ironman)
Beautiful! One days wouldn't mind a couple different ornamental pheasants.I just got this Red Golden Pheasant from MillerFarm. Here's the back story: So after I got him, I looked over the legs. No obvious broken bones. I held him on his back (legs up) and straightened both legs. The good one immediately sprang into the crouched position. The bad one just stayed put. When he is standing, the bad leg is not tucked up, it just hangs there with the foot just off of the floor with perhaps one talon touching lightly on the floor. He just stands on the good foot and looks around. He looks pretty beat up. Obviously the &*%(*&%$#)(*^^^ sale barn took the best care of him. (*&%&^*( jerks. He looks like crap warmed over twice. He has a general look about him like he has been in fight and came up loser. His tail feathers are broken off to perhaps 1/2 length. Looks like many feathers are missing. He has a black scab on the point of the elbow of the bad leg. I checked the feet and there is no sign of Bumble-foot. My guess is a pulled ligament in the elbow of the right leg. A 1-legged pheasant can prosper in a captive environment, but I want to make the effort to save him the aggravation. I prefer to name him "Red" rather than "Hoppy". Vet bills are not an option. I am thinking of taping his leg into a retracted position to keep him from re-injuring it when he hops around, checking it every couple of weeks to see if the ligament has re-attached. But I'm not sure this would be a good move or if it would make it worse. I will be keeping him in a extra large dog crate until he gets better. Kicked the Labrador out. She'll have to sleep on a carpet on the garage floor. What do youse guyz think? I'm guessing he is gangly teen-ager. Just getting full sized. John
Congrats! Im not sure what they are. I'm curious as to what others think.I had been checking out Craigslist for chicks for awhile now. Of course everyone is an hour or more away from me. I was driving one day, taking a scenic route somewhere, and low and behold, there's a sign for chicks, turkeys, ducks, rabbits and veggies. Of course I had to stop and look. It was just a family operation, not the most elaborate place I have ever seen; either way I wanted to see what I could get. I ended up with 2 red sex links, 2 black sex links, 4 turkeys, and 2 bantams. I didn't plan on having bantams in my flock, but OMG they were so cute!! And I like having the turkeys because I have 2 older ones that we got with my older girls and they seem to try and protect them! So I have fallen in love with the bantams. I pick them up and they settle in my arms and just coo.I don't know what they're breeds are. If anyone knows...let me know!
