Pheasant.com Blog

The heat (and the accompanying drought) has dramatically affected our farm. One of the biggest effects is on our employees as most of our work here is outdoors. The heat makes many normal tasks much more difficult. Read More »

Yesterday the sky turned black and rain seemed imminent. We looked online for the radar images and we found a storm heading right towards our farm. We haven’t had a significant rainfall in about six weeks, so we were praying for rain. Then the sky started churning and I saw clouds like I’ve never seen before. But it all fizzled and we didn’t get any rain at all. Read More »

Our March seminar was attended by two representatives from the Shanghai Hongyan Pheasant Farm. One of the two attendees, Miss Yuan then invited us to visit their farm in China. Read More »

We have roads to our pens and around our pens. We wish we didn’t have to have roads on our farm, but we need to be able to get the birds to the pens, and we have to feed the birds and our delivery trucks need to get to the pens to haul the birds to our customers. So we have roads. Read More »

It’s been nearly a month since we’ve had any significant rainfall here. Our pheasant pens are built on quite sandy soil which means that our ground dries out more quickly than heavier soil. Read More »

Our first hatch (March 5th) ringneck pheasants of the year were moved out to the pens last week. The birds were just over eight weeks old. Read More »

This morning one of our trucks left for Chicago O’Hare with a shipment of 120 cases of ringneck pheasant hatching eggs. Read More »

There is a 330′ X 30′ poultry shed within a mile of our farm. For years the building was used as a flea market. Over the past few years, the building has sat idle. Read More »