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 [...]
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 – [...]
Overall, the farm is running well. As anyone can imagine, there are issues – issues with chick shipments, with employees, and a myriad of other things. Egg production is decent, but that is about all. The breeders started laying earlier this year, and now they are backing off earlier too. Fertility and hatchability are better [...]
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 [...]
We are blessed that we have a number of customers in Europe who value our pheasant genetics and purchase our pheasant hatching eggs. We have a good customer base of pheasant farms who want either or Chinese ringneck pheasants or our Manchurian ringneck cross pheasants. In April and May 2010 we’ll ship over 100,000 pheasant [...]
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 [...]
It’s been very cold, and the hunt clubs we supply within 200 miles of our farm have had their business affected. We hear that the upcoming week will bring much warmer weather and we are looking forward to moving more birds regionally. We sent a truck and trailer with 3400 to Washington and Oregon on [...]
On a positive note, we have 55 paid participants already signed up to attend our seminar. That is just an awesome number – as we historically have had 10 – 20 people sign up in the month prior to the seminar. I am so pumped about it. I read in the paper this week that [...]
We have been investigating different diets and formulations of feed for our day old chicks. We had a hatch of pedigreed white chicks this past week and we started the chicks on a new feed formulation. After a few days, Troy (our brooder manager) was alarmed as the chicks simply were not eating the new [...]
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