Pheasant.com Blog

We’ve been through the heavy wet snow, and we’ve seen the ice – now its bitter cold. The temperature here right now (10 am Saturday morning) is 0 degrees. Read More »

It’s been a little over two weeks now since the big storm. For the most part the farm has returned to normal – the damage to the pens is there, but the pens have been secured, or in some cases emptied of birds for the winter and shut down. Read More »

It’s been a week since I last made a post to my blog. Last weekend the temperature was a few degree’s higher than freezing and our crew made the most of the opportunity. Read More »

We have had another day to start to actually realize the extent of the damage to our farm cause by the 10″ wet snowfall. We have thousands of birds that have escaped. Read More »

We got smucked (if that’s a word) by the biggest snow storm in years. Last night we had hours of steady, heavy wet snow. There was even lightning and thunder. Read More »

The media is filled with the news of a big storm. We are preparing to hunker down and wait til the storm passes, yet we still have birds to take care of and birds to ship. Read More »

It’s snowing. We have been watering 100,000+ pheasants this week – what a job. It’s supposed to snow 3” – 5” tonight. Read More »

Late Wednesday night (or early Thanksgiving morning) we had a minor snowstorm – by daylight all the snow was gone. But the 1” – 2” of heavy wet snow that did fall was enough to collapse a number of pens on our farm. Read More »

Above is a pic of one of our 500 gallon water wagons. November has been very kind to us – weather wise. We have over 100,000 pheasants on the farm – outside in the pens. Once we reach late October and then November, our water system usually freezes. Read More »

It’s been a few years since Avian Influenza was on the news nearly every day. Now of course it’s swine flu. It’s a tough call to try and decide how tight to make your farm bio-security wise. Many poultry farms are shower in, shower out facilities. Read More »