You could be right. I bought the golden pheasants at a feed store as chicks, and wasn't I wasn't able to see the parents like I would have if purchased from a private breeder. I am actively looking to find and buy a few more Goldens as well as some Amherst to continue my hybrid project with my various Ringnecks. Believe it or not, creating a ringneck golden hybrid is not as easy as one would think. I've been trying to do this over 5 years, and so far, I only had 1 out of about 6 chicks survive. All the previous hybrid chicks appeared to be strong and healthy on outside appearances, but died several weeks later, for reasons unknown to me. I suspect maybe they died from some non visible internal defects in their chromosomes from hybridization, because all the non hybrid or pure chicks we hatch do just fine. I'm definitely not a expert at this lol, but after marking all the eggs I've gathered and keeping detailed notes, I've noticed that to get any success or fertile eggs, it has only worked using ringneck roosters with the golden hens and not the other way around. Also, it seems to be like only 1 out of 30 eggs shows to be fertile during the candling process, and most only continue to develop about a week before dying in incubation. I'm waiting a few more months or until next spring for our hybrid rooster to show his adult colors and appearance before I do another hybrid update vid. Thank You so much for having an interest and stopping by for a look. I'll also check out your 🐝 vids as well 😎👍
@@newrivertroll1553 It would be intersting to to what happens if you put hime with a pure Golden female and see what happens with the color. I think its totally awesome what you are doing with teh crosses.
There was a project to breed a super table pheasant as a meat bird .The birds were really massive Does any one know what happened and is there a specific super large ringneck meat variety/breed ?? Love poultry breeding !!
Yrs ago, I purchased some junior white rinecks and jumbo regular ringnecks from McFarlane pheasant farm. Both varieties were way bigger than the other ringsnecks types, with the white jumbos being slightly larger than the normal Jimbo's. Both types were bred for the table, but they don't breed those anymore if I remember correctly
Below is a link to MacFarlane pheasants. Their melanistic mutant and extra large varieties get pretty big, roosters between 3.5 and 4 lbs. Nice ppl and maybe give them a call. chicksquote.pheasant.com/all-breeds.html
I have a pehasant that is 10 weeks old i raised him with chickens but now i have a new chicken floc with him also 10 weeks and now he is agresive to the chickens so i seperated him but do you think that he wil become nice with time??
That sounds interesting. I'm not sure if I could evan give you an answer with any degree of certainty. It might depend on what species of pheasant you have, or if it's a male or female. 10 weeks old on a pheasant can be hard to tell the difference tho. I'd look for spurs developing on the back of legs, above ankle for males. Male pheasants and chickens are aggressive enough already and often won't get along with other males, regardless of species. They do seem to get along better if their enclosure is large and with larger being better. I do have a couple of enclosures that have more than 1 male, and so far, they all seem to be getting along fine. 1 enclosure has a male Ringneck pheasant, 2 female Chinese golden pheasants, and 1 male chicken with 2 hens. The chickens are only in there temporarily, tho until a new enclosure becomes available. I'll show them on my next hybrid pheasant update vid, coming soon. Back to your question, you just might end up having to separate the pheasant from the chickens and keep it with other pheasants. But I guess that depends on how much you like that pheasant. Either way, I wish you the best of luck and success with your birds 😎👍
