Pheasant.com Blog

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 »

Here is an aerial picture of our breeder farm. On the upper left are our two 50’ X 300’ breeder barns – where we breed the flocks of ringnecks we use to produce chicks in March and April. Breeders are going into these buildings next week. Read More »

It’s just been an awesome week. We came into this week expecting to ship 2 full goosenecks of birds – as that is all we had scheduled (of course in addition we have local runs with straight trucks). Read More »

Last night there was the most awesome full moon. The air was crisp, and there was virtually no wind. We moved out the very last of the last hatch yesterday, and though it was cold – the lack of wind meant the birds were not going to get stressed. Read More »

I just stepped outside my office and took this dreary pic. Read More »

We have a 4 person crew busy daily now working on setting up our breeder flocks for the 2010 season. We are planning on keeping over 30,000 pheasant layer hens and the selection process for such a flock takes months. Read More »