its officially on for my pheasants in Pa..

[wilds of pa]

Picked up my first 8 eggs this morning.. cracked all open and fertility is there.. will have my first pheasant breakfast of the year today.....

so its officially on for pheasants in Pa...

 

[turkaholic]

I don't know Charlie.....they look store bought to me!!!!

My Ringnecks started about a week ago, nothing from the Versicolors yet.

 

[tysonb24]

Hey Turkoholic do you ship your birds? I have a versicolor rooster but i need some hens. Just wondering if you would ship some chicks when you get some and how much they would be?

 

[wilds of pa]

turkaholic heard that on the store bought look... lol

Nothing from the pure melanistics (black pheasants) yet..only my crosses at this point..no turkey or bobwhite eggs yet either..soon i hope..

versicolor(green pheasant) I don't think there are two many of those out there?? they are neat looking birds.

http://www.avianweb.com/greenpheasants.html

Green Pheasant
(Phasianus versicolor)
http://www.gbwf.org/pheasants/green_pheasant.html

 

[Mahonri]

Oh, how I wish I lived on the farm... I'd be ordering chicks or hatching eggs.

 

[turkaholic]

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They are neat, however I rarely get to enjoy them! They are an extremely flighty and shy pheasant. As soon as they see a person, they scoot into the brush pile and hide until the coast is clear. I hope to build a breeding flock and keep the line going. It is getting harder and harder to find Japanese Green breeders and once their gone, I'm afraid their gone for a good long time. With the avian flu in the Pacific Rim countries, getting fresh birds or eggs imported from Japan would probably be extremely difficult, if not impossible right now. Wish me Luck!

I'll try to get some photos of my birds, but I"ll have to build a blind first!

I doubt I could get as nice a photo as the stock photo above. We'll see.

 

[Eagle2026]

I breed Versicolors.
I have three roos and 1/2 dz hens.

They come from Japan, originally, not mine. No I did not import mine.
Have never shipped them but they do sell like flapjacks around here.
Mike

 

[turkaholic]

Sorry Eagle, I hate to tell you , but those are not PURE versicolors. They are Ringneck/Melanistic crosses. True Japanese green pheasants are like the one Wilds posted above. They are a small pheasant, Never have a ring or even a slight ring about the neck, silver blue shoulders and rump, and a deep emerald green breast. Eyes on the roosters are always a bright yellow. The pure versicolors are a whole different bird than melanistics. They are so difficult to find here in the US, it took me about a year of searching over the internet to find the few breeders that still have them. Apparently 20-25 years ago, you couldn't give them away. Now expect to pay about 100$+ per pair!

None the less, great looking birds you have .

 

[MissPrissy]

Charlie, I have always wanted to try my hand at pheasant but I am unsure of what kind of pen they need.

Can you show us your pheasant pens?

 

[Eagle2026]

You can not get a cross bread of melinistic and ring neck as Melinistic Mutants breed true.

Meaning that if you breed a melinistic with a ring neck you will get one or the other not a combo of both.

The greens that I have pic are not Melinistic in any way. And yes they are not as nice as the one that is pic above.
But green pheasants or Japanese pheasants due have a ring from occasion.

If you own the book Extraordinary Pheasants look on pages 52-53 and 104-105 and it well explain more than that.

My Mutants do not have the ring.

Have a good day, and read up on Greens alittle before you make such an assumption,
Mike