Pheasant.com Blog

Keagan Strange learned about the internship program between Kansas State University and MacFarlane Pheasants three years ago. Bill MacFarlane came to the University and spoke to students about the gamebird business and the internship program that Bill and others had founded 8 years ago. Read More »

Brad Minguey has been a supervisor at MacFarlane Pheasants for about 4 years but his experience with pheasants began when he was 12 years old. He describes work on a pheasant farm succinctly. “It’s not easy work but when the season is over you feel like you have really accomplished something. Then you start all over again and try to do better than the year before.” Read More »

Assistant Production Manager Richard Thomas is a pheasant man! He has worked at MacFarlane Pheasants for 3 years but has worked in the pheasant industry for 16 years. Read More »

Tell me about your family. Are you married? Do you have kids? Any pets? My family consists of Amy and I and our children Kaela 6, Samuel 5 weeks Read More »

Tell me about your family. Are you married? Do you have kids? Any pets? I married my husband on 9-10-11 and we have 2 dogs. One is a lab mix who loves attention and the other is a rescued Siberian Husky who likes to tell stories and yell at the person who makes it home second from work. My husband and I do not plan on having children as we like the lifestyle that we have. Read More »

Tell me about your family. Are you married? Do you have kids? Any pets? I’m married to Cathy, have one 7 year old son Kayden, and 2 dogs – shih tzu named Pepper and a yellow lab named Buddy. Read More »

Tell me about your family. Are you married? Do you have kids? Any pets? I am married to Jess, she is a third grade teacher in Stoughton, WI where we currently live. We do not have any children, except our dog, “Kipling”, an English Cocker Spaniel. Read More »

Once a week from now on I will be posting a profile of one of my employees. The first person you get to meet is Chris Theisen. Read More »