Silver Pheasant/ Chicken hybrid

[GoldenFlight]

Hey, so my brother recently got Silver Pheasants to try and hybridize with his chickens. I’m curious if anyone has ever found pictures of this specific cross? I’ve seen a lot of Ringneck/Chicken hybrids, but never with Silver Pheasants.

I know a lot of pheasant breeders have very strong opinions opposing to this, so please don’t be offended.

 

[Gotbirdsohyeah]

Too late,I'm offended!

 

[nicalandia]

Hey, so my brother recently got Silver Pheasants to try and hybridize with his chickens. I’m curious if anyone has ever found pictures of this specific cross? I’ve seen a lot of Ringneck/Chicken hybrids, but never with Silver Pheasants.

I know a lot of pheasant breeders have very strong opinions opposing to this, so please don’t be offended.

It's difficult to do it when they are grown up, they need to imprint with chickens so its best to hatch both together, so far everything I have read say that Silvers will produce fertile F1 males that can be bred back to chickens or pheasant when doing the imprinting too.

 

[GoldenFlight]

It's difficult to do it when they are grown up, they need to imprint with chickens so its best to hatch both together, so far everything I have read say that Silvers will produce fertile F1 males that can be bred back to chickens or pheasant when doing the imprinting too.

Yeah, they aren’t mating naturally... We are going to try doing ai.

 

[nicalandia]

Yeah, they aren’t mating naturally...☹ We are going to try doing ai.

Good luck with milking the roosters I have seen videos but never been able to do it

 

[GoldenFlight]

Good luck with milking the roosters I have seen videos but never been able to do it

I’m really hoping it works!

 

[fis234]

If you manage to get a single fertile male from those thousands of attempts, you will go down in history.

Then you could backcross to chicken and stand at the birth of a new chicken breed with pheasant blood. Subsequent selection could result in more breeds. Some with more pronounced pheasant characters, others with less and others (see eg crowing)

According to the book Bird Hybrids, A. P. Gray, there is some little chance of crossing with silver pheasants. This would create a unique breed using backcross and subsequently cross-breeding their offspring, backcrossing to both parents and other methods.

(For example, In the case of cats, some breeds were created in a similar way as
Bengal cats, Savannah, caracat or Chausies.)

 

[fis234]

Although it is possible that something like this has happened in the distant past... And these genes caused a tuft and a bifurcated crest.

 

[BlockDogRq]

Yeah, they aren’t mating naturally... We are going to try doing ai.

There is probably no problem in a rooster mating with females of another species. The rooster will force the silver pheasant hen into mating.

 

[BlockDogRq]

I don't know about these, but there is a bird called the mountain bamboo partridge. I wonder what the hybrid of this bird and the domesticated chicken would look like? I've heard that red jungle fowl and mountain bamboo partridges are more closely related than other pheasants species

Mountain bamboo partridge(Bambusicola fytchii)