Pheasant.com Blog

How does a company that takes care of animals, people, and machinery survive without a good maintenance department? The answer is they can’t! Traver Weber, who has been the maintenance manager for the past four months, shared his thoughts on the responsibilities and organizational structure that protect the birds, people, and machinery that are a cornerstone of MacFarlane Pheasants. Read More »

Don Janes is a relatively new employee at MacFarlane Pheasants. He started his job as Maintenance Manager in mid-February 2021. Don’s background prepared him for the Maintenance Manager’s role at MacFarlane Pheasants in an unexpected manner. Read More »

We have a three-person staff performing the maintenance of our delivery trucks, led by our Maintenance Manager, Don Janes. Keagan Strange manages the drivers and schedules vehicles for deliveries. Read More »

MacFarlane Pheasants, Inc. keeps a three-person maintenance crew, led by Jay Illbeck, quite busy. Read More »

“I have repaired just about everything on the farm at least once,” says Jay Illbeck about his work on our farm. He is the assistant maintenance manager at MacFarlane Pheasants and has been with us for six years. He has also delivered birds and helped with new construction projects, over the years. Jay is a self trained man who attributes his maintenance skills to being around other skilled people and extensive reading. He told me he loves the variety of his job.  Read More »

We have lots of equipment at MacFarlane Pheasants and we spend a great deal of time making sure that every piece of equipment is kept in great shape. It is important for us to protect our investments, from feed and water systems to delivery trucks. If we don’t maintain our equipment, we waste our resources and we just can’t let that happen, if we want to keep our business profitable! Read More »