Author Topic: friendly pheasant  (Read 2228 times)

northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Fife
    • North Fife Blog
friendly pheasant
« on: November 04, 2014, 12:12:08 pm »
Can a pheasant become "too" friendly with a chicken?
Visiting Mr pheasant is all around rejected loner hen and I wonder....probably he's just after her food and affections would not cross a species border? But pheasants are wild chickens, aren't they ?  ??? :roflanim:

Clansman

  • Joined Jul 2013
  • Ayrshire
Re: friendly pheasant
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2014, 12:25:49 pm »
It does happen occasionally, same as with the chicken x Guinea fowl cross

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamebird_hybrids



doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: friendly pheasant
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2014, 04:04:37 pm »
Collect her eggs and hatch them out - I'd buy some babies from that cross!  :excited:
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

northfifeduckling

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • Fife
    • North Fife Blog
Re: friendly pheasant
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2014, 09:07:54 pm »
she's not laying at the moment but I'll keep you posted if I see evidence of activity  ;) . She might fancy the pretty boy as the cockerel scares the wits out of her and she runs like hell when he comes near....

Carse Goodlifers

  • Joined Oct 2013
  • Perthshire
Re: friendly pheasant
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2014, 06:18:11 pm »
I wouldn't rule it out.
I've seen pictures of the off spring of a zebra and a pony from a wildlife centre before.

 

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