The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[sharron]

Good morning everyone

 

[007Sean]

I agree

Hi Sean!

Y'all need to raise pheasants. They molt in the summer months and if you get some melanistics like I have, you'll have eggs year round, (stupid birds) even lay during their molt!

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning all, happy weekend!

 

[N F C]

I'm doing fine Debby, thanks for asking...sounds like your becoming a regular Wyomingite, (sp?)
Don't think I could ever get use to 35°F feeling, 'comfortable'!

"Wyomingite"...funny, when we first moved here I asked a few residents about that. In Kansas I was a Kansan, in Florida I was a Floridian...what are you in Wyoming? Got the same answer from everyone. They all said "cowboy".

 

[rjohns39]

Morning Bob!

Good morning Sean

Hi Sharron, are you feeling better today?

Good morning all, happy weekend!

Hi IM, you have a great weekend as well.

 

[N F C]

Y'all need to raise pheasants. They molt in the summer months and if you get some melanistics like I have, you'll have eggs year round, (stupid birds) even lay during their molt!

When I look up the definition of "melanistic" it says black pigment. When you use it in relation to pheasants, does it mean black pheasants?

 

[007Sean]

When I look up the definition of "melanistic" it says black pigment. When you use it in relation to pheasants, does it mean black pheasants?

Some of them are, some are green and some are blue. Then there's a whole bunch of different color variations with each of those colors and they are all called, 'melanistic'.
The first 'melanistics' were thought to have been developed from a mutation of a regular Chinese ring necked pheasant, that appeared on the Rothschild Estate.
ETA - there skin is white, melan refers the the black feathering or dark feathering as opposed to the normal feathering of a common Ring necked pheasant. They don't have black skin pigment. Both parent birds have to have the gene for producing 'black' pigmentation of the feathers. It's a dominate gene.

 

[N F C]

Some of them are, some are green and some are blue. Then there's a whole bunch of different color variations with each of those colors and they are all called, 'melanistic'.
The first 'melanistics' were thought to have been developed from a mutation of a regular Chinese ring necked pheasant, that appeared on the Rothschild Estate.
ETA - there skin is white, melan refers the the black feathering or dark feathering as opposed to the normal feathering of a common Ring necked pheasant. They don't have black skin pigment.

Aha, that clears up my confusion very well (at least about pheasants ). Thanks Sean!

 

[007Sean]

Aha, that clears up my confusion very well (at least about pheasants ). Thanks Sean!

Your welcome, it's hard to explain without getting way too indepth with regards to genetics.

 

[N F C]

Your welcome, it's hard to explain without getting way too indepth with regards to genetics.

You gave me just enough, thanks!