Timed Lights To Make Pheasants Lay???
Yeppers That Right! Not Sure If Thats What Has Caused It, Or If Its Just A Late Season Fluke?
When I Moved To The New Place 2 Wks Ago I Rigged Up My Artificial Lights So My Coturnix Can Do What They're Good At... Make Eggs! Dusk + 8 Hrs Via Timer. Since I Am A Single Guy With No Help And Often End Up Feeding All The Birds After Dark I Decided To Rig Up Feeding Lights--- So Once They Were Up I Just Lazily Plugged Them Into The Laying Lights. Now I Have 2 Mature Trios Of Ringneck Pheasants. Last Sunday My Daughter Came To Me All Fired Up Babbling Incoherently About A Pheasant Egg..... I Went And Checked And Sure Enough, There's A Pheasant Egg In Pen 2---- Hmm. I'll Be. Never Had Them Late This Late Before---- Never Past The End Of August---- Ever. So I Have Been Watching And Checking Closely This Week. Now Pen 1 Is Laying As Well And The Boss Hen In Pen 2 Is Broody! So Far I'm Up To 2 Eggs Outta Pen1, And 4 In Pen 2! I'm Stumped And Thrilled All At The Same Time!