Pheasant sitting

[Janiemp55]

I have a ringneck pheasant that made herself a really nice looking nest in the nest boxes and has gone to sitting...first time one has offered to hatch the eggs..sold 60 eggs and have 100 eggs in incubator and hatched out 20 few weeks back..everyone told me they wouldnt sit. Any one else have ones sitting

 

[Tony K T]

Don't get to excited until she has set full term.Some do occasionally set but for some unknown reason,they get off before they should and don't go back.There are a few good birds that will set and hatch.
Hopefully yours is one.Make sure there are no holes in your pen.Chicks will run as soon as they see you and they seem to know where all the holes are and some even disappear never to be seen again.Remember to take out all deep water pans and use chick waterers.And don't forget mom will be a little meaner then usual with chicks around.It's always exciting to see chicks raised by mom.I don't think I would leave the male in with her as he may(not saying he will)but may kill them.
In N.H.,Tony.

 

[Janiemp55]

Thank you...I have been lucky that they lay in the nest boxes.. She made a nice looking nest.. We have the pen lined with landscaping stuff from where we had turkeys hatched out around the bottom 3 feet high..hadn't thought about the water bowls She stays on the nest when I walk by to feed the others.

 

[Janiemp55]

If she does come off early I can put in incubator to finish

 

[14 bobwhitequai]

every year I have had my ring neck pheasant hens sit one sat hatched and raised two clutches in one summer what you have to do is make sure that other bird wont bother her like males wont try to breed her, and other bird dont want to get into the nest and you also have to leave her alone if a hen doesn't feel like she can be alone thats when she gets up cause she feels that her nest has been discovered and it might jeopardize her softy. It also is that pheasants never can sit there batches cause there egg are always being stolen. I have also had black hens sit and hatch eggs to I have a 2 year old black hen that is on 12-16 eggs right now and no matter what I dont go by her till I am sure that all the chicks r out and dry then I move her by her self with the chicks into a modified chicken tractor to keep the other birds away and give her and the baby's a small space to bond. once the chick r more ventures and learn we give them food they will come out and wait for meal worms and eat them out of r hand.I give my pheasants tone of big branch from cedar trees and I have a wooden wall on the out side of my aviary so it help that the y cant see when someone comes down so they stay less nervous I had a hen make and sit on a nest right next to the building with nothing else to cover her and we stayed a way from her talked soft and moved slow but quick and dont worry about checking the eggs when they hatch you will hear peeps see babys poke there heads out of her feathers or quick run out and run back under her and when you first see chicks wait at minum of 4 hours before doing any thing eles in the spare time get a seperate cage ready. when you do move them put the hen in first that way she dosent accidently try to fly and land a chick let her calm down then carefully add the babys the keep a distance and make sure she allows them to go back under her. and as long as the weather is nice and she lets them sit under her you be fine and when I do take eggs I only take eggs from spots that might not be a nest like by the food and water dishes by the doors on the floor if they where in a corner and you start see alot of eggs being laid there leave them and another hen might sit good luck keep us updated.

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