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007Sean said:
I'm doing fine Debby, thanks for asking...sounds like your becoming a regular Wyomingite, (sp?) :lol:
Don't think I could ever get use to 35°F feeling, 'comfortable'! :D
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"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".
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007Sean said:
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! :th
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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?
 
N F C said:
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?
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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.
 
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007Sean said:
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.
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Aha, that clears up my confusion very well (at least about pheasants ;) ). Thanks Sean!
 

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