Raising Birds
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Posts: 460
RE: Raising Birds
what is your goal in raising the birds? Are you doing it to establish a polutation or just for fun? I must know that it is very likely you will lose about 50 percent of your birds due to weak chicks....etc...
#3
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Posts: 79
RE: Raising Birds
Im in my second year of hatching birds. Let me tell you first hand that there is a lot to learn and it can become pricey to get started. It is a fun hobby but can become time consuming. You will find that hatching is an art within itself. Are you planning on buying chicks ?
#4
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Elizabeth West Virginia USA
Posts: 43
RE: Raising Birds
ORIGINAL: sportsman22
I want to start getting some info on raising pheasants. I was just wondering if I could any takes from anyone who raises them.
I want to start getting some info on raising pheasants. I was just wondering if I could any takes from anyone who raises them.
Good luck!
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
#6
Spike
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 9
RE: Raising Birds
A friend and Iare going to raise pheasants. There were some raised in thearea before I moved in and I got to see the end of them (I think the coyotes got the last of them). Is it DNR I need to contact for permits in Washington? I am planning on a 20'x20' pen. Is that big enough? I am looking for about a dozen to start andI have lots of room to expand (or grow)! It will be for fun.
#7
RE: Raising Birds
I have raised them up here without much of a problem.. The pen s here must be at a least six feet high. The size of it will depend on how many birds will be in it. I did not have the mortality rates discribed above at all. I had bought my chicks from a bird farm so I did not need to hatch them at all.
I also run a net over the top of my pen that brought the highth of it up to almost 12 feet. I added roosts to get them to roost at night so not much of a problem from foxes. But, Idid have some serious problems from feral house cats..[:@]They had recently wiped out most of my birds in one pen with-in a few days. They dug undert it and chewed holes threw the netting while I was at work. I think that this problem has now been solved.
I also supplied then with those tall chicken feeders and waters so I didn't have to spend much time in around them as to help keep them wilder. Need any more info let me know..
Welcome to the forums arintime, I think you will like it here..
I also run a net over the top of my pen that brought the highth of it up to almost 12 feet. I added roosts to get them to roost at night so not much of a problem from foxes. But, Idid have some serious problems from feral house cats..[:@]They had recently wiped out most of my birds in one pen with-in a few days. They dug undert it and chewed holes threw the netting while I was at work. I think that this problem has now been solved.
I also supplied then with those tall chicken feeders and waters so I didn't have to spend much time in around them as to help keep them wilder. Need any more info let me know..
Welcome to the forums arintime, I think you will like it here..