Our March hatch pheasants are giving us quite a time. We have always known that pheasants hatched in March are old enough while the days are still getting longer (up until June 20th) that for some of them, their bodies are physiologically old enough to begin producing sexual hormones. In other words, March birds begin [...]
Brad Lillie (our in house financial guy) and I have been crunching the numbers for the last two calendar years and though we have made progress financially (after the disastrous 2008 season, we made a reasonable profit in 2009) changes must be made for us to maintain a competitive edge. Other than bidding out and [...]
This truck and trailer left at noon today – bound for Colorado. We started 237,000 pheasant chicks, recycled 25,000+ pheasant breeders and started 45,000 partridges – whew!!! It was time for a few of them to leave. Chick revenue dries up in August – yet our feed and labor bills are at their yearly high [...]
This past week, Dori, Micah and I traveled to Kansas. I spoke on Friday 8/13 about managing a gamebird farm to the attendee’s at the Kansas Sport Hunting Association annual convention. Dr. Tom Warner also spoke at the convention. Dr. Warner oversees the new Hunting Preserve Management degree program at Kansas State University in Manhattan, [...]
Last year we were already actively delivering adult pheasants by today’s date. This year, with the temperatures near 90 degrees, our early season customers are holding off taking their first delivery for a week or two. Once we get started next week or the week after that, we will be sending at least 3 [...]
We have three more hatches (8/4,8/11 and 8/18)and our regular pheasant and partridge hatching season will be over. I’m trying to decide if we should keep one more “A” room of pheasant chicks (about 6500 chicks) than what we had scheduled. We have the room in the barns- the decision hinges upon whether we will have [...]
Our 2 new Kubota’s Ellie Klein – daughter of our pen manager, Brian Klein Over the years we have used many different modes of transportation around the farm. Small pickups (a Ranger or an S-10) have worked well. About 10 years ago we bought two John Deere Gators and we have had success with them. [...]
The temperature has reached nearly 90 degrees – which for us is hot! Surprisingly it hasn’t rained here for nearly 3 weeks, so after a much wetter than normal May and June – it is really dry. As recently as July 3rd, our breeder flock was producing over 7,000 eggs a day. Now just 10 [...]
Every year there are lots of twists and turns in the market for day old pheasant chicks. Historically we can readily sell our chick production for hatch dates up through June 1st. This year was no exception – the market for early season chicks was strong. Then as we enter June – our sales fall [...]
Our 1 Millionth chick (held by Juan Zamora) We’ve passed the one million mark in pheasant chicks produced this season. On June 22nd the one millionth chick was hatched and shipped! We still are collecting eggs and it is very busy. On another note – we have been working on improving our pheasant.com website – [...]
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