Keeping Pheasants Free Range

[Lori F]

My Barred Rock raised 6 ring-neck pheasants and they followed her around and responded to her calling them in to feed, etc. The key was keeping them all locked up with her for the first 3 weeks before I let them out during the day. They would all go in with her at night, for about the first 4 months, then they decided to stay out on their own.

 

[Tony K T]

My Barred Rock raised 6 ring-neck pheasants and they followed her around and responded to her calling them in to feed, etc. The key was keeping them all locked up with her for the first 3 weeks before I let them out during the day. They would all go in with her at night, for about the first 4 months, then they decided to stay out on their own.

Are they still around?
In N.H.,Tony.

 

[Lori F]

They are. They are at the chicken coop every morning, waiting for me to let the girls out. They hang out with them for awhile and then head off on their own. Come back around 5 to grab a bite to eat and head out again.

 

[Midnightman14]

They'll probably stick around but once they hit sexual maturity you won't see them much. The males go off and stake out a territory and the females focus on raising chicks/laying eggs. Plus once puberty hits the males get wilder and more excitable.

 

[chickenguy222]

My 2 ringneck hens free range with me flock of 11 chickens and a rooster. They chickens all sleep in their shed and the pheasants sleep in the enclosed run on a tree stump. As chicks, we clipped their wings so they couldn't fly. Now that their wings have grown back in, they learned not to sly and they are quiver calm. Hey put them selves away all on their own

 

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[MJ11]

Hi. We had pheasants last year... over time all of them left, however we have one female that stayed. She goes out with the chickens during the day, stays pretty close, and comes back to the coop in the evening. We have had her for a year now. If I can’t find her, I call out to her and the chickens, go inside, and go back out five minutes later and she is always near the coop. I wonder if you can coop train a larger number like you would Guinea fowl, by only letting one or two out and keeping the rest of the flock in the coop. I have heard if you do this over a few weeks, letting different ones out everyday, they will return to the coop at night, keeping the flock together. You can eventually let them all out and they will return. Just a thought. I would love to have more pheasants. They sure are pretty birds!