Pheasant/chicken hybrid photos

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First pheasant x chicken hybrid! This was actually quite a surprise as we thought these eggs were still fertilized by chicken roosters. There was another basically identical one that died around the 20th day. We think it possibly has multiple spurs from a Sumatra cross hen, but is hard to know for sure at this size. The last photo is of the father.

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[Suburban farm]

YES! I’ve been looking for people working on this kind of project. I’m super excited to see where this goes. Hopefully some of the F1s are fertile.
I wonder if pheasant X jungle fowl would be more likely to turn up fertile offspring.

Maybe next year, if I can source the birds this year, I’ll be able to try it out.

 

[GoldenFlight]

YES! I’ve been looking for people working on this kind of project. I’m super excited to see where this goes. Hopefully some of the F1s are fertile.
I wonder if pheasant X jungle fowl would be more likely to turn up fertile offspring.

Maybe next year, if I can source the birds this year, I’ll be able to try it out.

I hope you try it!

 

[Suburban farm]

I hope you try it!

I have a couple questions.

First, why do you always use a pheasant as the father? Is the cross more likely to be successful than with a pheasant mother?

Second, how did the AI attempt go with the silver pheasants? I read your thread about them but there was no update.
I want to try milking a Cornish X rooster to inseminate my smaller hens.

 

[GoldenFlight]

I have a couple questions.

First, why do you always use a pheasant as the father? Is the cross more likely to be successful than with a pheasant mother?

Second, how did the AI attempt go with the silver pheasants? I read your thread about them but there was no update.
I want to try milking a Cornish X rooster to inseminate my smaller hens.

Using a male is supposed to be the best way to get fertile hybrids. If you put a chicken rooster over pheasant hens you’ll get way more hybrids though.

We never ended up doing ai.

 

[Suburban farm]

Interesting. I was planning on getting a pair of each of jungle fowl and pheasant (tbd species) and doing a switcharoo. Plus a couple random hen chickens. Maybe instead, I’ll just look for unwanted pheasant roosters to shack up with the hens.

 

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