Ringneck Pheasant info page *warning lots of PICS*

[cmom]

My girl

 

[kurts74]

My broody chicken has been sitting on 10 pheasant eggs and the first just hatched yesterday. Can the chicks stay with the chicken or do they need to go under a heat lamp?

Thanks.

 

[coturnixlover]

Do they go broody and raise their own young? Tanks

 

[cmom]

Do they go broody and raise their own young? Tanks

In a sense they do go broody. In the spring they will lay a clutch of around a dozen eggs +/-. Sometimes, especially if their nest is destroyed they may lay a second clutch usually with fewer eggs than their first clutch.

 

[coturnixlover]

Thanks for that. Im realy interested in reaising ringneck pheasant with their own mom. Any experience

 

[cmom]

Thanks for that. Im realy interested in reaising ringneck pheasant with their own mom. Any experience

Check out the first post on this thread.

 

[NanaKat]

My Ringneck hens started laying yesterday! I thought they wouldn't lay until March.
There are 8 hens with a cock in the pen and I found 2 eggs.
I'm assuming these should be fertile so I'm going to try incubating them this week if I find more eggs in the pen.

 

[cmom]

My Ringneck hens started laying yesterday! I thought they wouldn't lay until March.
There are 8 hens with a cock in the pen and I found 2 eggs.
I'm assuming these should be fertile so I'm going to try incubating them this week if I find more eggs in the pen.

Pheasant eggs take a bit longer to hatch then chicken eggs 24 to 28 days.

 

[NanaKat]

Quote: I set the eggs and marked the due date at the 24th day. I ended up with three pheasant eggs.
I then set a clutch of chicken eggs to hatch on the same due date. These will be moved to the hatcher on the same day.

Next I set a clutch of chicken eggs to hatch on the 28th day. These eggs will go into the hatcher when I remove the dry chicks from the first group.

I do this with my quail timing their hatches together. My Coturnix quail can go in the chicken brooder without issues, but I will put the pheasant that hatch in a separate brooder since I was told they are more aggressive and quick than the chicks.

Edited to add a few photos:
I was surprised to get "out of season" eggs from these

 

[cmom]

Quote: I set the eggs and marked the due date at the 24th day. I ended up with three pheasant eggs.
I then set a clutch of chicken eggs to hatch on the same due date. These will be moved to the hatcher on the same day.

Next I set a clutch of chicken eggs to hatch on the 28th day. These eggs will go into the hatcher when I remove the dry chicks from the first group.

I do this with my quail timing their hatches together. My Coturnix quail can go in the chicken brooder without issues, but I will put the pheasant that hatch in a separate brooder since I was told they are more aggressive and quick than the chicks.

Edited to add a few photos:
I was surprised to get "out of season" eggs from these


My birds were raised in a coop but when I started letting them out they wouldn't go back in. They are a lot like quail. I didn't have any aggression problems but they were definitely quick.


A lot of the eggs turned out to be infertile.