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    What Do Pheasants Eat? A Complete Guide to Feeding Pheasants

    What do pheasants eat? In the wild, pheasants eat a varied diet that includes seeds, grains, plants, insects, worms, and other foods they find while foraging. Pheasants being raised [...]

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  • What Can Pheasants Eat? Foods to Feed and Foods to Avoid

    Pheasants can eat a wide variety of foods, including grains, seeds, plants, insects, and other foods they naturally forage for in the wild. However, when raising pheasants in captivity, [...]

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    How Much Does It Cost to Raise Pheasants?

    Nothing is sure but death and taxes . . . and that costs continue to go up when raising Gamebirds.If you're considering raising pheasants, one of the first questions is [...]

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    What to Feed Baby Pheasants: Pheasant Chick Feed & Protein Guide

    Knowing what to feed baby pheasants is an important part of raising healthy birds. Pheasant chicks grow quickly during their first several weeks of life and need considerably more [...]

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  • Working with Your Nutritionist and Feed Company to Formulate Ideal Pheasant Feed

    Formulating quality pheasant feed is essential not only for the health and performance of your birds but also for cost savings on your farm. Working closely with your nutritionist and [...]

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    Healthy Game Birds Require High Quality Feed

    You can depend on MacFarlane Pheasants to feed the pheasants and other wild birds they raise, the highest quality feed available on the market. MacFarlane Pheasants is a family owned [...]

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  • Fixing Feeder Issues in The Outside Pens

    Feeding gamebirds is a science.  Making sure you are offering your birds the correct protein percentage will help you raise the highest quality game birds.  Gamebirds need the right protein [...]

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    MacFarlane Pheasants Discusses Dietary Needs of White Pheasants

    The White Pheasant Breeding Program is headed up by Research Manager, Kate Rollette. Her job includes hatching and raising white pheasants to advance the pedigree breeding stock and meet the [...]

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    Who Benefits from Our Feed Truck?

    The feed truck pictured here, has been in use for about a year now at MacFarlane Pheasants. In the past we had feed delivered from a third-party vendor. The feed [...]

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    6 Feed and Water Procedures to Keep MacFarlane Pheasants Healthy

    Feed and water are the life source for our game birds. Our system for making sure our pheasants and other game birds stay healthy, by receiving proper hydration and nutrition, [...]

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    Feed and Water Systems-Critical Concerns

    Maintaining your feed and water systems is critical to keeping your game birds healthy. Be prepared to spend time checking feed and water systems in all barns at least three [...]

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    The Feed Vacuum

    When it comes to building a better mousetrap, MacFarlane Pheasants is still looking, just like we’re always searching for ways to make our job easier. That’s the reason behind the [...]

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    The Benefits of Contracting Feed

    The main ingredients in feed are corn and soybean meal, thus the price of feed is directly related to the commodity markets. Higher markets mean higher feed prices. Lower markets translate into [...]

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