Raising Pheasants

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Жыл бұрын

A brief look at the process of raising Ringneck pheasant chicks into adult birds. These birds arrive as day old chicks and are raised inside my garage under heat lamps until they are old enough to become acclimated to an outdoor pen. After being moved to the outdoor pen, the pheasants regularly get new habitat and food sources brought into their pen.

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@naomidaum8277 Жыл бұрын

The blinders: It's like a nose ring that clips onto the beak, and the blinders prevent them from seeing well. Without the blinders, the males would fight for dominance, territory, breeding rights, you name it. It keeps them fairly peaceful. They can eat, drink, and see everything except for what's right in front of them, thus preventing fighting and bickering. A brilliant invention.

@Sharkdog11b 10 ай бұрын

I was just about to ask this thank you

@twopeasinapod7554 Ай бұрын

If they see each other's eyes they will try to peck them out.....true

@saltycat662 6 күн бұрын

True but I think those things pinch like hell. It's likely painful and uncomfortable for them. Ever put clothing pins on the tips of your fingertips? It hurts.

@kennethstensrud669 Жыл бұрын

Next time you're going to catch them from the brooder, take out all loose things like waterers and feeders, and then corner them with a cardboard panel. Much easier to catch them then. And they need more cover than you did provide at the early stage, more for them to hide in makes them called.

@benjamindover7399 Жыл бұрын

Chicken wire is great for keeping chickens IN but it's not so good at keeping predators OUT. I found that welded wire mesh is not much more expensive and it keeps out the foxes.

@rossthomas945 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful birds.

@federicogiron7777 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your video on rising pheasants..

@HealingTimeTV Жыл бұрын

Ringneck pheasant chicks의 성장과정을 영상으로 소개하여주셔서감사해요, Thank you for introducing the growth process of Ringneck pheasant chicks through video. so Cute 🐣🐤"The blinders" good invention

@DonGladwin 4 ай бұрын

I have raised them escape artist.

@anthonyresto8596 Жыл бұрын

A pro at catching chics!😁👍

@Ieatpaste23 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. Bought 30 and needed a little advice. Only keeping 3.

@haroldcrook4055 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the view.

@HiddenBlessingsHomestead 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video, it was neat seeing things from start to finish. My son is wanting to raise some and I knew very little about them, now I feel like I know more. I will be looking for some of your other videos with them.

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors 4 ай бұрын

Glad you found it interesting and informative! I started raising pheasants in 2020 and it has definitely become one of my passions!

@gavinblaedow9255 4 ай бұрын

The son here. Just watched this and it’s definitely informative. I like your cage design with the steel roofing around the bottom I can see that helping with predators that could tear at the mesh near the ground.

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors 3 ай бұрын

@@gavinblaedow9255I plan to create a video this spring discussing the design of the pheasant pen. It’s been predator proof for 3+ years. We’ve had multiple pictures of raccoons, cats, mink, foxes, and coyotes on the outside of the pen that were unable to get in.

@1ntwndrboy198 Жыл бұрын

Nice to see someone with the same last name 👍

@montana4939 Жыл бұрын

Good job !

@michaelkamradt4700 Жыл бұрын

Feeding them hamburger occasionally will greatly lesson the problem of cannibalism. After doing that I never again had an issue.

@jimmiemeeks9795 8 ай бұрын

Thank u for sharing very interesting

@indyreno2933 9 ай бұрын

The Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus) is a species of gamebird native to Asia, it is the largest of the four extant species of common pheasant, which is any constituting the genus Phasianus, in addition to being the only of the thirty-two extant pheasant species that has been introduced to many parts of the world, there are eighteen recognized subspecies within five subspecies groups: the Phasianus torquatus sohokhotensis group that contains the Strauch's Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus strauchi), the Sohokhoto Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus sohokhotensis), and the Alashan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus alaschanicus), the Phasianus torquatus torquatus group that contains the Tonkinese Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus takatsukasae), the Shandong Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus shandongensis), the Sichuan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus torquatus), the Hainan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus hainanus), and the Formosan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus formosanus), the Phasianus torquatus karpowi group that contains the Shansi Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus kiangsuensis), the Mandarin Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus liaoningensis), the Manchurian Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus pallasi), and the Korean Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus karpowi), the Phasianus torquatus hagenbecki group that contains the Kobdo Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus hagenbecki) and the Ruo Shui Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus edzinensis), and the Phasianus torquatus mongolicus group that contains the Mongolian Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus mongolicus), the Zerafshan Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus zerafschanicus), the Syr-Darya Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus turcestanicus), and the Aral Ring-Necked Pheasant (Phasianus torquatus bergii).

@serresaschrock2359 Жыл бұрын

My family favorite is mountain pride and giant oxheart

@tadcoder2848 Жыл бұрын

Dude get a poultry hook. Catch'em in a flash.

@gregorysagegreene Жыл бұрын

Interesting, thank you.

@alirezanegari-yx8wi Жыл бұрын

So nice❤

@mwwhatup Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure I probably could have caught them a little different. Maybe put the whole transport box in there, with this side cut out but not all the way cut. Put the heat lamp above the transport box and waited for night time. But I don't raise birds

@President.GeorgeWashington 2 ай бұрын

I am about to start raising pheasants here in Michigan to release into the wild for conservation efforts. I am wondering, how old were the chicks when you moved them from the cardboard box to the large outdoor pen? and what was the purpose of doing that?

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors 2 ай бұрын

The pheasant chicks were about 3-4 weeks old when I moved them from the garage to the outdoor pen. They need to have their feathers starting to grow and outside temperatures needs to be warm enough. Heating lamps can help. Move them outside for more space to grow.

@raprock5000 2 ай бұрын

You'll definitely want to get them in a outdoor pen if you're going to release them it's a huge difference in success. A bird raised inside a shed the whole time has very little success of making it.

@chriskeim5699 Жыл бұрын

What are the blinders for?

@plainandsimple1 Жыл бұрын

theyre extremely aggressive towards each other, so the blinders help stop the pecking.

@uwedirksen5946 Жыл бұрын

Well Don good job 👍🇩🇰

@1MrNimrod Жыл бұрын

Do you ever raise any through the winter? I’m curious if you need to keep water that’s not froze? I’m in MN.

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors 6 ай бұрын

Yes, I have raised pheasants throughout the winter and a bucket heater is necessary to keep the water from freezing. The main issue I run into is when the ground thaws in spring, the pen floods and the birds are unable to dry themselves,

@amorpets949 Жыл бұрын

Nice

@RagamTopik Жыл бұрын

Saya Suka Ayam hias. I love you. From Indonesian.

@danielleterry2331 Жыл бұрын

Where did you get these? I want to get a few and raise them in my leanto that I raise my meat chickens in it looks a lot like your pen 10x28 ft.

@Matt-du9ez Жыл бұрын

ive been considering getting pheasants but after witnessing how flighty they can be i might have to reconsider... super nice birds though.

@Ieatpaste23 11 ай бұрын

You might try other species. ring necks are raised to be as wild as possible. They are used for hunting. Goldens and such are decorative and more mellow.

@Michaelxxy Ай бұрын

Thank you guys. Nice to see from chick to adult.

@jamesclaiborne1163 6 ай бұрын

How much roughly did it cost you to get started. I’m broke af but love pheasants.

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors 6 ай бұрын

To build the pheasant pen, it costed a few hundred dollars worth of materials and a month's worth of weekends to build. Chicks can be bought online for a couple dollars a piece. Feed, heating lamps, and water containers are also a couple hundred dollars over the course of the raising season. All said and done, a $1000 might be a ballpark estimate for a few dozen birds.

@jamesclaiborne1163 6 ай бұрын

@@schmitzfarmandoutdoors sweet thank you. I guess we’ll see what happens next year 😏

@garymanuel4710 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting, i have been thinking of getting a few Pheasant eggs & hatching them releasing them in the wild, seeing there are none in the province of newfoundland, a guy in my area released i think it was only 4 or 5 but i think they were to young when he released them, they could fly only few feet & was caught by predators, But for a couple of yrs after there was 1 hen that used to be spotted, & to be honest maybe they were all hens that was released, But i think if they were kept until they could fly & old enough to know the rooster from the hen & let them go in different areas, maybe 3 hens to 1 rooster they could surive to breed

@robertfaucher3750 Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't recommend doing that could be bad for the environment to release

@marlaseegerstein3158 Жыл бұрын

That's illegal

@garymanuel4710 Жыл бұрын

@@marlaseegerstein3158 that is what makes it exciting, it"s illegal to shit in the woods too but i love doing that too, i might be looked at has a animal, But i am no sheep

@HiddenBlessingsHomestead 4 ай бұрын

@@marlaseegerstein3158 I believe if you have a small game hunting license it is perfectly legal.

@29erallday 2 ай бұрын

@@robertfaucher3750they are the environment dumbass

@AndrewGilpatric662 Жыл бұрын

Take the feeder of the box a piece of cardboard the width of the box then move all of the chicks to one side and take them out one-by-one without chasing them

@stingingmetal9648 Жыл бұрын

So what is the purpose of raising them? Is it mainly for meat? If you have a rooftop coop/enclosure, of a decent size, is it practical to be raising them for meat?

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors Жыл бұрын

I primarily raise the pheasants to be game birds and for training hunting dogs. Although they are good eating, I see chickens as a more practical option because they grow larger in a shorter amount of time.

@ToschiReelLifeMedia 9 ай бұрын

How many birds did you lose?

@johnjude2685 2 ай бұрын

I shot a young male without the white ring but had colored in saddle and tail feather. It did definitely cackle when flush, and before I shot, I'm saying it's a male and legal game bird my buddy claimed it was a hen. Question does a hen cackle when flush I say they don't only males.

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors 2 ай бұрын

Young roosters and hens look similar. A rooster will usually cackle when flushed. The hens are usually silent and I don’t think are able to cackle or at least it’s not a usual behavior.

@wynott5128 4 ай бұрын

If you release them. How hold should they be? And are they able to survive on there own? How far do they disperse

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors 4 ай бұрын

I’d say the pheasants are able to survive on their own at 16 weeks old. Their feathers don’t fully develop until closer to 20 weeks. Pheasants have lots of predators so it’s rare that you encounter a 2 year old bird in the wild. They will disperse to the best habitat in the area and hang out there.

@raprock5000 2 ай бұрын

I release them at 8 weeks with good success. But I also have good cover, food plots and swamp willow for cover.

@luzgarcia9499 Жыл бұрын

What happened to The rest

@klt2563 3 ай бұрын

What size pen as newborns and what size coop/run for older

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors 3 ай бұрын

Once the chicks outgrow the box and have feathers, we put them into the pen. This usually happens around 3 weeks old. Our pen is 10 feet x 30 feet. The adult pheasants require about 10 square feet per bird to live comfortably but we add structure to our pen to give them perching areas. This helps us add a few more pheasants to the pen.

@bradybiddix4738 Жыл бұрын

How big is your Pen? I’m building one in March

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors Жыл бұрын

The inside dimensions of the pen are 10 ft by 30 ft. The height is about 7 ft. Each bird needs about 10 square feet to be comfortable. I try to add logs to give them cubic feet area so I can put about 50 birds in my pen.

@ShadowGKCP Жыл бұрын

Looking at this video I get the impression that handling them is a big problem for both the owner and the birds. I feel like there should be a better way to do it. May be gas them all at once with something that makes them painlessly fall asleep? Or soak their food in the said tranquilizer and feed it to them before a big move?

@dylanhansen5235 11 ай бұрын

I don't think there's a single person in their right mind that would do that. If you are going move them all a once you just go in and catch them at night its a lot easier because they can't see in the dark.

@chevyheavy79 Жыл бұрын

If i were to go buy some what the earliest i can let them go on my property?

@raprock5000 2 ай бұрын

I'd recommend 8 weeks. I've been releasing some every year for 20 years.

@raprock5000 2 ай бұрын

Or if you have good nesting cover you can buy adult bred hens to release in the spring. Less work involved but hens may cost $12-15 each.

@TUTTOFIGARO Жыл бұрын

bonjour. désolé je n'ai pas compris la piece rouge que vous leur mettez au bec. ça sert a quoi ? merci.

@WordsPhotos 11 ай бұрын

Le but du morceau de plastique rouge est de les empêcher de se voir. Le mâle attaque pour la domination et le territoire. De cette façon, ils ne voient que ce qu'ils mangent.

@derekrogers5858 7 күн бұрын

Where do you get all that driftwood?

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors 6 күн бұрын

There’s a lot of natural driftwood around our backyard. Especially on the property and tree lines that divide all of the agriculture fields in the country.

@luissalazar7183 Жыл бұрын

My question is why u put those red things on there mouth

@stingingmetal9648 Жыл бұрын

To stop them from pecking.

@naomidaum8277 Жыл бұрын

It's like a nose ring that clips onto the beak, and the blinders prevent them from seeing well. Without the blinders, the males would fight for dominance, territory, breeding rights, you name it. It keeps them fairly peaceful. They can eat, drink, and see everything except for what's right in front of them, thus preventing fighting and bickering.

@raprock5000 2 ай бұрын

From being in a pen they pull feathers off each other, and will even cannibalize ..the blinders help them feather out nicely with full tail feathers..

@marcusaetius9309 Жыл бұрын

Oh, I’m a bit disappointed, I thought this was going to be about raising peasants…😂 Just kidding, interesting stuff👍🏻

@dylanhansen5235 Жыл бұрын

where did you order them from?

@foorlife632 Жыл бұрын

I seen them on the Murray McMurray website. You have to purchase a minimum of 30. I don't like that the game birds have to be purchased in such large numbers. I have never raised or eaten pheasant, so I don't know if I'd like it. I would rather start with 5. Jumping in on 30 is a huge commitment. I also live in ohio and was unaware of the game bird license. That is nice to know in case I do decide to raise them in the future.

@raprock5000 2 ай бұрын

@@foorlife632 I definitely wouldn't bother if you don't want to start with at least 20. I just don't think it's worth the investment. JMO

@thesilentanimator9409 5 ай бұрын

does anybody know where to get pheasant hatching eggs?

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors 5 ай бұрын

You can have pheasant eggs or chicks delivered to your local post office. A quick web search can help you find a breeder closest to your location.

@raprock5000 2 ай бұрын

MacFarlane Pheasant Farm in Wisconsin. Or eBay sells eggs during the right season for them.

@Grimdarkog Жыл бұрын

what do you do with them? Just eat em?

@schmitzfarmandoutdoors Жыл бұрын

The pheasants that I have raised usually are used for training hunting dogs. Afterwards, the pheasants can be used for making pheasant alfredo pizza and several other delicious recipes. Also, I have sold some to local people looking to raise birds for themselves.

@stingingmetal9648 Жыл бұрын

@@schmitzfarmandoutdoors As local/personal meat/food production becomes more popular and in demand, do you think you will see an increase in people raising them for meat?

@raprock5000 2 ай бұрын

@@stingingmetal9648They actually have a jumbo strain of pheasant for meat and a white strain similar to a white turkey for meat. They get larger than the wild strain of pheasant.