The Backyard Hobby Farm
That Most Pheasant Raisers Have Never Heard of: Koklass As of my great search, I have yet to find a Koklass seller besides Allandoo Pheasantry in UK. It has them listed at £160. They do pop up every once in a while. I have seen two live at the house of the breeder who I …
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Not peacocks, the peacock pheasant are very similar to the peafowl, but different colors and much smaller. Perhaps instead of the utility or standard ornamentals, these are more your style. Care varies from that of a normal pheasant seeing that peacock pheasants require fruit and live insects as supplements to their normal food, and lay …
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Still not satisfied. Gosh, these folks are hard to please. Okay got $600 to spare for a really exotic pheasant? Eared Pheasants Beautiful pheasant, but so exotic that a pair is usually at $600-1100 dollars, the white ears most and blue eared least. The white eared are endangered. There is also a non-captive Tibetan Eared …
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Silver Pheasant Usually only 150.00 an adult pair, the silver pheasant is perhaps for some people the best, cheapest ornamental option. In the Gallopheasant genus. Reeves Pheasant A duller bird, but still beautiful in its own way, the Reeves is another pheasant, at the price of a silver. Very rarely, it is used as a …
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Quail are little plump creatures and unfortunately for that reason the target of many predator attacks, from crows, to weasels, to dogs, to rats! So how the hey are we suppose to stop them? From the Air Crows, hawks, falcons, and eagles would all snack on a quail. So a roof is very necessary, made …
Very often, if you are a bird breeder, you run into this question time and time again. Should you hatch your chick, or let it die in its egg? Fortunately for us that is a false dichotomy, but we’ll get to that in a second. The answer is sometimes yes, sometimes no. You see when …
Often there are animals we wonder if they can live together. I have compiled this chart and a guide to compatibility. ✔ means yes, ✖ means no, and ❔ means yes given correct conditions. Chickens Chickens are best housed with other chickens, ducks, doves, pigeons, sheep, alpacas, rabbits, emus, or donkeys. It is possible to …
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So you want the calming cooing dove or pigeon, they are so easy to breed regardless of type, but which breed is for you? Ringneck By far the most common, the Ring-neck usually are ten to fifteen dollars for normal but more for color mutations. They are the best for beginners as they are cheap, …
Alpacas are more loveable than a dog, more cuddly than a rabbit, and more fluffy than pure fluff! When trained well, an alpaca really joins the family. So how hard are they to care for? Water As the most important thing for an animal’s life, Alpacas are notorious drinkers, sometimes going through two entire buckets …
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Sometimes, as a hobbyist, instead of a full time farmer, we’ll pop two- three eggs in the incubator to see what happens. Sometimes the results are less than pleasing. Sometimes it’s nothing, but sometimes, maybe even worse, it’s a lonely chick. Well, luckily for you, it’s all right. The chick might not be alone Several …
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Where The Chickens Roost