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[farmraised86]

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Chickens have 78 chromosomes. Pheasants have 80. If you crossed and got a viable egg, it wouldn't survive. I wouldn't waste my time on that one.

wasn't going to just read that pheasants were crossed in with game birds for fighting just wondered if anyone knew if It had ever been done with malay but it has been done with pheasant cock over chicken hen and even back crossed to rooster for gameness

 

[farmraised86]

whats the difference between them? could not find anything online is this a polish?

yea not polish but besides I was talking about white with black spots lol

 

[farmraised86]

But I am looking for some white or white crested black ladys for my black berchin polish if anyone has some bantam type hens for sale or trade feathers for feathers

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

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Chickens have 78 chromosomes. Pheasants have 80. If you crossed and got a viable egg, it wouldn't survive. I wouldn't waste my time on that one.

wasn't going to just read that pheasants were crossed in with game birds for fighting just wondered if anyone knew if It had ever been done with malay but it has been done with pheasant cock over chicken hen and even back crossed to rooster for gameness

Would love to see pics! Where can I go?

Did a quick search and it appears to have been documented! Color me surprised! How awesome!

 

[farmraised86]

I have seen where there are a few chicken pheasant crosses, very few of these eggs actually hatch. The ones the hatch are sterile and don't tend to live long at all.  There's a few threads on it here. It is VERY frowned upon by the pheasant breeders. I have never thought of doing it with my pheasants.

I've come across several sites and spoke with several game bird breeders that all say common pheasants were crossed with game hens and then offspring crossed back to game to get a good ring bird but only common ringnecks work male offspring of this mix and guinea x chicken are commonly fertile and female are not but pheasant x guinea , guinea x peafowl I believe its opposite so why couldn't you take a cock from chicken x guinea or pheasant x chicken to a pheasant x guinea or peafowl x guinea or turkey x peafowl hen?

 

[farmraised86]

Would love to see pics! Where can I go?

just google game chicken x pheasant hybrid

 

[farmraised86]

Would love to see pics! Where can I go?

Did a quick search and it appears to have been documented! Color me surprised! How awesome!

see I'm not a fibber lol wouldn't it be cool malay x ringneck pheasant?

 

[farmraised86]

And one of my friends who is 65 years old and has bred game birds most of his life told me his secret to how he produced f2 and f3 peafowl x turkey hybrids ( nobody else I've heard of has done this) I've seen pics from his records but I won't tell how he did it so don't ask

 

[farmraised86]

I don't plan on doing hybrids they're just cool to study... Pure breeds and Cross breeds of pure breeds are my thing

 

[ramirezframing]

Quote: This one is probably a mix of houdan and white crested polish. As houdans don't have a solid white crest like that and they also have 5 toes. I did a google search since I couldn't find this photo on feathersite, little put off by feathersite since some of the polish pictures they had weren't labeled right for color. But it could be a color project that a few people are working on, there's always color projects going on in the breeds.