First batch of pheasant chicks started poppin' yesterday...

Notice anything strange?

Nice!

These for the State or yours personally? That is next year's project.

a couple look different

Personally...

The neighbors like them... the neighbors with exclusive private stretches of prime steelhead water...

Looks like you ended up with a couple of fryers in there Twitch.

There all delicious, so I see no real problem.

Cool! That looks like a high speed incubator.

Syko - they're pheasants... just a tad more white than normal.

Dogfish, the incubators I use are just cheapies, but have performed well for going on 17 years now... only replaced a couple thermostat disks (couple bucks). I think the automatic turners are about as much as the incubators. Total package about $120 each +/-.

A tadd more?

My Dad used to raise them when I was a kid, dont remember any chicks looking like that.

Fun to hunt, better to eat. Only thing better may be grouse.

Cool Twitch.


I've got some pheasant eggs in the incubator right now.
Had three chicken eggs in there, they hatched a couple days ago.

I can answer 1 question----yes all pheasants are psychotic.

A buck is a hella good price on chicks. Goldens eh? Of what flavor golden (red, yellow, cinnamon...) ? I've got some cinamons hatching in 3 days. Valley quail popping in the next day or two... even a couple turkeys for kicks...

Not all pheasants are psychotic, well, unless they're between 2 and 10 weeks, then yes, all are...

I've got one sad looking little hen sitting on a nest in the back of one pen, away from any possible protection from the rain, soaked as hell...sitting on eggs that are likely soaked as hell also. Giving her an "A" for effort at least.

Oh, and of the white chicks, one is completely blind (yet finds food and water well by the sound of the others) and the other is a huge rooster, like twice as big as any of the other birds. Anyone need a white rooster? The regular ones are bound to peck the hell out of him when he gets a little older.