We have Pheasants now and some pics

[monarc23]

cuties! congrats!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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I was trying to figure out how I let you get get away without slipping a couple turkeys in? I must be slipping but then again when you said Yoders had pheasants my mind was in "pheasant land"

I don't know if you ordered the wire? But Agri Supply in Greenville has the best prices.

Steve

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

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I was trying to figure out how I let you get get away without slipping a couple turkeys in? I must be slipping but then again when you said Yoders had pheasants my mind was in "pheasant land"

I don't know if you ordered the wire? But Agri Supply in Greenville has the best prices.

Steve

I buy most of my fencing there, but they didnt list the sizes I wanted so I ordered it from Parrot's in Kinston, where I buy a lot of my feed.

I also meant to ask you where the feed mill is where you get yours.
I bought about 1000 lbs of oats yesterday from a place in Mt Olive, and they were packed in 55 gal food grade barrels. It worked out to about $10.80 /50 lbs for whole oats.

I'll be planting some and feeding what's left over

Now that I have the 4 barrels, I will be able to buy in bulk at closer places.

I still havent gotten my run set up for the turkeys or ducks, but they are still on the list of things we want. I already had some rabbit cages, and brooders, so the chicks and rabbits didnt require any preperation.

I need to make a "lumber run" and get set up for some Muscovys and a few turkeys, but first I need to sell some lambs!!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

We get our feed in Richlands at Onslow feed n grain, It's probably about 30 minutes from you? We take the back roads thru Cove City and Trenton. They will mix a custom blend or sell feed off the floor, we have them mix ours since we get it by the ton.

Steve

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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Ticks - it didn't take that long

Not even a week and last night about 2 am 6 of the little beasts had jumped out and were crying like crazy because they were cold outside the brooder.

1)How do "they" get those springs in the pheasants legs at such an early age?
2) How did "they" get into the house in the middle of the night to install those springs without waking up the watch dogs????? ( I know part of the answer to that one already - the dogs would only wake up if "they" were trying to take the fridge or rattled a bag of chips)

Steve

 

[Struttn1]

Steve another thing you have to watch for in young pheasants is butt picking. I bought some ringneck eggs years ago and hatched them and everything was going great until just overnight they started eating each other alive from the butt.

I tried everything I could find about stopping it and nothing worked. I lost most of them by the time they grew out of it.

 

[ticks]

wrong thread..

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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How old where they when they started butt picking?

Steve

 

[Struttn1]

It has been a lot of years but if I remember correctly they were a few weeks old.

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

I'll keep an eye out for that..... just what we needed a bunch of "butt picking" pheasants.

Thanks
Steve