Keeping game birds

I am not sure whether this site can include more exotic fowl? How many people would be likely to be interested. Of poultry there are ducks geese turkeys and guinea fowl all as useful as chickens; and then there are the ornamentals like pheasants which can be kept in much the same conditions as chicken. It is easy to turn a chicken run into an aviary. All you need to do is wire over the top. So I'll wait and see now whether anyone already has or is thinking of starting to branch out.

Animartco, it would help sometimes if you put your approximate location into your profile.  It's easier when people are replying to posts to know if you are in Manchester or Sydney!  

As to things like pheasants, I'm sure we have members who keep game birds too.  They are all poultry of some sort.

Do you keep pheasants then?

We used to have a neighbour who had peacocks.  The male spent more time in our back garden than he did in his field!

I keep and will breed Golden Pheasants and we are in the process of getting a peacock.

Quote from: Thingy on August 16, 2010, 21:06

I keep and will breed Golden Pheasants and we are in the process of getting a peacock.

On the plus side cock golden pheasants are quiet compared to a normal cockerel.

If you get a peacock you can sell your alarm clock , you`ll never need it again.
Hope  your  nearest neighbour is half a mile away.

They are, then again my cockerels are loud too, and theres nothing anyone can do about it MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Nope, really close actually, but theres a peacock on the farm over the way. I will just blame it on that one

I have a golden pheasant chick.... about three or four weeks old now.... Thinks its a pekin chick though

Would love to know what sex it is.... its all barred and stripey at the moment

One of the GP chicks i reared started doing the 'wing down' display at 3 weeks old.
Very comical.

OH found a clutch of pheasant eggs near a dead hen a couple of years ago. Hatched them out in the airing cupboard would you believe, and had three survive. They were so scatty though that as soon as he felt they could fend for themselves he released them back on the estate they came from before they bashed their brains out!