Pheasants

[Wilchild54]

Hmmmm Oh well Im new to pheasants and time will tell to know if not to buy eggs from this guy anymore....

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Definitely the picture of the two chicks is of Silver Pheasants.

 

[Wilchild54]

Up date; I had a SilverBack hatched last night and now 1 to go cross your finger,s for me.....

 

[BYC-user-174785]

What is a Silver Back? Either way that chick is not a silver pheasant. Congrats on the chicks anyways, but sorry that the person sent you eggs from random birds without telling you. Are the impeyans actually impeyans? Please post pictures of them!

 

[Wilchild54]

Oh yes Iv seen many pictures of Impeyan chicks its hard to mistake them with there large size, But this silver looks like other silvers Iv seen I don't realy see any difference maybe you could post a picture of a true silver chick so I might see this difference. This one is my first. I will post pictures of all in another week as they progress but they are doing great now. One thing I have learned here I stated of with 32 eggs of various breeds of pheasant and M ducks had only 12 live chicks out of them . Now I know what Im going to say here goes against the Golden rule on not helping a chick out of there shell , the belief being that if you help a struggling hatch the chick is week and those can't hatch on there own and will probley will die . But one is clear if you let them try on there own once they pip the shell and after 24hrs there's no further progress you can well bet it will die because its not going hatch on its own. I watched 5 Mandiran ducks die because others told me not to help. But out 12 i helped 10 out and there all eating and drinking and doing great now. My point being here before you sit there and loose your investment , help them after 24hrs after piping and no other progress, What have you got to loose. This was my first pheasant incubation and many of my early hatches never piped because of Low Humidity on the last 3 days, I had read articles on Pheasant incubation that said 65% was your target for the last 3 days, Well that will not work except for chickens ....it takes at least 80% just to get them to pip . I had 2 Lady A's pip and hatch completely within 1 hr. Im learning as I go if any of you can add to this feel free, I need all the help I can get . ..... please pardon the misspelled words as my spell check will not work on this site for some reason....

 

[Wilchild54]

Also on the Silver Pheasant issue of being a silver or not I bought 2 of these they were in light creamy brown colored shells does this tell you anything?

 

[BYC-user-174785]

The last picture you posted just looked odd to be a silver... Post more pictures of all of your pheasants and ducklings! That would help.

 

[Tony K T]

Definetly not a true silver.Maybe another species of silvers or even crossed.The legs are way to light to be a silver and the body shape is wrong and the coloring over all is not of a silver.Just for your own info you should keep track of where you get your birds from.I keep track of birds I buy,who I buy from,who I sell to,when they lay their 1st egg of the season,how many eggs they lay,deaths.If you plan on storing this info in your brain you will forget everything.
I would also like to see pics of your impeyan chicks.
In N.H.,Tony.

 

[Wilchild54]

thanks guys for your comments and I will get some more pictures up next week as they progress but as far as my Mandarin ducklings are nothing more than a passing dream as they never piped and after 35 days I cracked them open to find them dead they were all fully developed....

 

[countryluver]

I want to know does any pheasant have green legs