A full load of mature French Redleg Partridges
This week our pheasant deliveries have begun in earnest. We quantify overnight deliveries as “gooseneck loads”. A gooseneck holds (depending on whether its more hens or more cocks) anywhere from 2500 mature pheasants up to 4000 adult pheasants. This week we are shipping 6 full goosenecks of birds. Next week we have 7 full loads booked.
As we are able to ship mature birds off our farm, pen space is opened up for our last hatches of pheasants. So our pen crews not only are busy shipping, but busy moving out birds from the barns into the pens. It’s a very busy time.
Our hatchery crew is helping out the pen crew for the next month, but then will be actively diving into the task of selecting our 2013 breeder flock.
August and September can be a very rewarding time of year, not only our heat wave will disappear, but the product of our labor over the past months will be evident as we deliver our birds.
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I REALLY ENJOYED READING YOUR POSTS I FOUND IT VERY INFORMATIVE. I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THE BIRD AND NOTICED YOUR WEB-SITE. YOU BEING YOUR A LOCAL BUSINESSMAN I WANTED TO SEE WHAT YOU HAD TO OFFER. IT’S HARD ENOUGH TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR DAY TO DAY STRUGGLES ARE MET IN RAISING AND SALEING THESE BIRDS THAT YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH A SITUATION THAT IS OUT OF CONTROL, GOOD OLD “MOTHER NATURE”. IT’S UNFORTUNATE THAT MOTHER NATURE” PLAYS SUCH A BIG PART IN YOUR MARGIN FOR PROFIT. ANYWAY, IF YOU COULD ANSWER A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS I WOULD APPRECIATE IT. DOES A PHEASANT HAVE TO BE IN A PEN, IF IT WAS NOT CONTAINED WOULD IT FLY AWAY? IF SO, COULD I CLIP IT’S WINGS AND LET IT RUN WILD ON A RANCH? AS YOU CON SEE I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE WHEN IT COMES TO PHEASANTS. YOU MIGHT GET A LAUGH OUT OF MY LAST QUESTION WOULD A PHEASANT AND A ROOSTER DO WHAT COMES NATURALLY AND MATE? THANK-YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS AND MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU FOR ALL YOUR STRUGGLES.
we could clip the birds wings, but the hawks would eat them
and yes our pheasant will mate or breed naturally