Pheasants

[countryluver]

Does any pheasant have green legs

 

[countryluver]

Does any pheasant have green legs

 

[marmca]

If I may,
I have some new pheasants, (1 hen 1 cock) my other male and 2 hens escaped, still have 2 unrelated hens to combine with the new ones. the new pair have 'peepers' on, from the person I bought them from. I do need to separate out my Silky's that are sharing the pen with them. I am unsure of how to incorporate the pheasants into a flock. but am looking forward/wanting eggs, hatchlings.
Does anyone have Experience with these, that can help me. They are 'ordinary' or common ring-necks. Also, the new hen is darker than the others,just a genetic anomaly or could she be hybrid?

when is it likely to be 'safe' to take off their goggles? particular procedure?

Thanks in advance.

the escapee's did return to front yard until dog chased them away. have not seen them in a couple of days. too slow to catch them and cats hunt in the area. so have 'written them off as 'gone'

 

[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....

Well after almost one year now here are some pictures of my pheasants after helping all of out of there shells that everyone sad don't do it... first here is my silver male pheasant as he is starting to turn silver. next is my Impean male next is a Golden Red Throat , and last a Lady Amherst male . They have all grown into strong birds which goes to show if you care for these very carefully it is possible to raise strong birds although you helped them out of there shells. I watch 5 Mandarin ducks die in there shell that were fully developed but never piped...point here you have nothing to loose and everything to gain by helping a baby bird out of its shell if its several days past due, because it will surly die if you don'

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[Wilchild54]

Well after almost one year now here are some pictures of my pheasants after helping all of out of there shells that everyone sad don't do it... first here is my silver male pheasant as he is starting to turn silver. next is my Impean male next is a Golden Red Throat , and last a Lady Amherst male . They have all grown into strong birds which goes to show if you care for these very carefully it is possible to raise strong birds although you helped them out of there shells. I watch 5 Mandarin ducks die in there shell that were fully developed but never piped...point here you have nothing to loose and everything to gain by helping a baby bird out of its shell if its several days past due, because it will surly die if you don'

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[Wilchild54]

 

[Wilchild54]

 

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[malcom850er]

I have F2 red golden's,and silvers right now might be getting a male white crested Kalij today... Just need to find some hens.... I have had ringnecks, mutants, yellow golden, Siamese firebacks, an Alaskan snows

 

[malcom850er]

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....

Silvers have orange legs