Pheasant Housing Question

[jeepgirl13]

My landlord has two types of pheasants, Reeves and silver. She had a pair of females of the Reeves variety, and has a male and female of the Silver variety.

The Reeves pheasant is now alone, since her friend died night before last. My landlord wanted to put her with her peafowl, so she wouldn't be lonely, but I am worried about the size difference between the birds.

Can we put her in the enclosure with the male and female pair of Silver pheasants?

I dont know anything about pheasants and could really use some experienced advice on what to do with her. I worry about her being alone, as most birds are flock inclined, but being a pheasant, I just dont know.

Thanks for reading this!

 

[sdm111]

My silvers were mean and I would not be able to out anything else in with them. Just my personal experience.
My peafowl were more docile than my silvers

 

[jeepgirl13]

My silvers were mean and I would not be able to out anything else in with them. Just my personal experience.
My peafowl were more docile than my silvers

Thank you for your input! She has a pen with silkie chickens and peafowl in them, and they have access to each other and seem to get along well. I will let her know the other peafowl may get along better with the pheasant than her Silver ones will.

 

[sdm111]

To be clear these were blue. I had java greens that were vicious. Peafowl that is

 

[sdm111]

Thank you for your input! She has a pen with silkie chickens and peafowl in them, and they have access to each other and seem to get along well. I will let her know the other peafowl may get along better with the pheasant than her Silver ones will.

yeah pheasants are pretty territorial. It's weird my most docile prolly were me blue eared but they looked the meanest. Very big too. All they did was dig and grunt lol. I miss all my pheasants they were very rewarding to raise and people would come over just to tour

 

[jeepgirl13]

yeah pheasants are pretty territorial. It's weird my most docile prolly were me blue eared but they looked the meanest. Very big too. All they did was dig and grunt lol. I miss all my pheasants they were very rewarding to raise and people would come over just to tour

When people hear I take care of them they always ask if they can come and see them. They are very fun birds. This has been a learning experience for me. Her silvers have always been very friendly towards me. The Reeves dont really seem to care unless I'm cooking with food. She had ring necks a while back, but she sold those. They were super flighty. Then she had these big black ones with white mustaches, not sure what they were, but the boy of that one was meeeeaaaannnn.... she sold that pair as well. So now weve just got the reeves and the silvers here along with her peafowl and silkies.

I've never heard of blue eared pheasants before! It's off to google I go now! The hubby is wanting to raise some eventually. I like looking at the different varieties

 

[jeepgirl13]

To be clear these were blue. I had java greens that were vicious. Peafowl that is

I believe she has one java green, it is the more nervous of her peafowl. The others are pied and white. The little pheasant was put of the shed and out with the peafowl, and no one seemed to care about her. I think she will be just fine with them

Thanks a ton for your input

 

[jeepgirl13]

yeah pheasants are pretty territorial. It's weird my most docile prolly were me blue eared but they looked the meanest. Very big too. All they did was dig and grunt lol. I miss all my pheasants they were very rewarding to raise and people would come over just to tour

These were the variety she had, but she had the brown variety I guess. Her bird were very dark, i always thought they were black. She had a mean male one. I did love the noises they made though! It was almost a metallic noise! They were diggers too

 

[sdm111]

Yeah brown eared are more expensive than the blue

 

[sdm111]

Fireback pheasants are supposed to be mean too but I dont have any experience with them.
I had swinehoe, white crested kalij, blue eared, red and yellow golds, impayan and prolly some more I'm forgetting. The pied and white are from blue peafowl