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 [...]
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 [...]
The new nets as they are being installed Felipe as he is working installing the new nets Because of the damage from the December 9th snowstorm, we are replacing over 30 acres of netting this summer. The new nets have been arriving and they are being installed about as quickly as they get [...]
Brian Klein with a second fox I copied this narrative directly from Brian Klein’s Facebook Page: “After the excitement of shooting the fox on Thursday night, my enthusiasm was crushed Saturday morning with a phone call stating something got into our pens again and killed another 170 birds. During a stake out last night I [...]
The manager whose office is right next to mine is Brian Klein, the pen manager. He is responsible for all the pheasants from the age of 7 weeks until they are mature and either shipped or become breeders. Brian has over 100 acres of covered pens to manage. Brian is normally a quite enthusiastic and [...]
It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m thinking about the upcoming week. We want to get a better handle on the number of adult birds we have sold for this fall. The market is so competitive. Even though are our feed prices are up $100 a ton vs. three years ago, bird prices aren’t up much at [...]
Our pen crew moved out 1000 of the first hatch birds this week. The chicks were hatched on March 2nd, which makes them just over eight weeks old already. The birds have been outside most of the week, so hopefully they will be OK with the big storm coming in tonight – we could have [...]
A four man crew has started on the pen repair project (repairs due to the December 9th storm). Shayne Noller leads up the crew, with assistance from Nick, Felipe and Tommy. The crew has a five month time line to accomplish the repairs – they will be replacing over 30 acres of netting and over [...]
Years ago there was a wide variance in mature pheasant feathering quality between growers. It was common for some pheasant raisers to over-crowd their birds and therefore produce birds with broken, notched or missing tails. If a producer raised pheasants and they had full tails, that in and of itself was enough. Today, the standards [...]
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