Each year we “count the farm”, usually after the first of the year. It is much easier to accurately count when there is snow on the ground, as the birds stand out much better against the white background of snow. Even though we have no snow and it’s early December, our crews are counting as we need to make sure we have the number of birds we predicted we would have, in order to fill all our orders.
We have 120 acres of pens and to count, employees need to walk and count every single pen in the entire operation. Our prediction (which comes from taking the accurate number of pheasants placed into each pen minus expected loss based on past experience) is that we’ll have 140,000 adult pheasants on our farm. Not only do we need to know the number of pheasants, but how many are hens and how many are cocks.
This would not be the year to be short, as there are virtually no pheasants avaiable on the open or spot market. We’ll have the counts done in the next few days. I have positive intent.
