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We raise all our poultry according to the American Standard of Perfection!
Please look at the table below to see what Pheasants are currently available for purchase. If you would like additional information on a specific breed just click on the type of Pheasant under variety! Any questions please do not hesitate to contact us!
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General Information
Large fowl- the large breeds of fowl (They are sometimes called Standards, but this
term should really be used for birds, large or bantam, that reflect the published standard for their breeds) Many breeds can be found in Large fowl and Bantam.
Bantams are more popular because they need less space in most cases; they eat less feed, and are easier to handle than most large fowl. They are the ideal size for children to start out with. For more complete information you can check with the American Bantam Association Standard or the American Poultry Association Standard of Perfection.
True bantams are mostly only for exhibition. The reason for this is that most true bantams lay very small eggs and very few eggs. They also have no large fowl counterparts. Along with having very small bodies for meat production, bantams are just not big enough for slaughter
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Red Golden Pheasant
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Red Golden Pheasant The wild Golden Pheasants come from the mountains of Central China. They are referred to as Red Golden Pheasants in captivity. The males are one of the most brilliantly colored pheasants. The adult males should have a full, silky golden yellow crest with perhaps a slight touch of red at the tip. The face, throat, chin and the sides of the neck are rusty tan; the wattles and orbital skin are yellow. The ruff is a dull yellow to a light orange, with each feather having a bluish black border. The upper back is green and the rest of the back and rump is a golden yellow. The breast is scarlet; the flanks and under parts are scarlet changing into a light chestnut. The tertiaries of the wing are blue and the scapulars are dark red. The central tail feathers and upper tail coverts are black, spotted with cinnamon and the tip of the tail cinnamon buff. Young males resemble hens, but will have a spotted tail and varied patches of red throughout the plumage. Both sexes have yellow legs and bill. The hens will lay a clutch of 8 to 12 eggs, the eggs will hatch in 22-23 days. Upon hatching, she will sit still on them for a period of 1 to 3 days before striking out with them in search for food. The hen will call the chicks, peck at food, pick it up and drop it, and sometimes feed the chicks from her beak. The young can fly at 10-14 days.
The Yellow golden is a mutation of this Pheasant.
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Yellow Golden Pheasant
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Yellow Golden Pheasant The Yellow Golden pheasant was first developed in the 1950s by Professor Alessandro Ghigi of Italy and sometimes are referred to as the Ghigi Yellow Golden Pheasant. They were a mutation that has been very successful here in the United States.
The Yellow Golden is very easy to raise and if given the proper space, they can become very tame. The male is a very striking yellow color. The males do not color out until the fall of their first full year, so the first breeding season they will not be colored. The hen is white with dark lines through their feathers. They do not eat a lot of feed and are very hardy. We provide a little shelter for ours in the winter but we have never lost any due to the cold temperatures.
They breed very easily and the hens will breed their first year. The eggs hatch in 23 to 24 days and the chicks are very easy to raise. If you put water and feed in the pen, they will most likely survive.
If you are a beginner in raising pheasants the golden pheasants are the best to start with.
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Lady Amherst Pheasant
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Lady Amherst Pheasant is native to south western China and Myanmar, but have been introduced elsewhere. The adult male is 39 - 47" in length, its tail accounting for 31" of the total length. It is unmistakable with its black and silver head, long grey tail and rump, and red, blue, white and yellow body plumage. The "cape" can be raised in display. The name commemorates Sarah Countess Amherst, wife of William Pitt Amherst, Governor General of Bengal, who was responsible for sending the first specimen of the bird to London in 1828.
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