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Raising Gamebirds => Brooding and Raising => Topic started by: guest on April 20, 2004, 08:24:29 PM

Title: baby pheasant
Post by: guest on April 20, 2004, 08:24:29 PM

i had two little pheasant doing fine yesterday
and were died today they were almost a week
old wondering if i was feeding wrong feed
or what happen what do you feed them  :(

Title: baby pheasant
Post by: Pheasant Hollow Farm on April 20, 2004, 09:07:35 PM

Don't know what happen to your pheasant chicks. I feed my Ring-necked Pheasant chicks 28% medicated turkey starter. I also put the turkey starter in a blender to grind it up finer. I also add GQF-Vitamins Plus in their water.

My brooder temp is 95* and I have 171 chicks in there as I type. I have to move another 57 chicks oue to the barn broooder tomorrow morning.

Give us some more information on what you did from the start of the hatch.

Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm

Title: pheasent
Post by: guest on April 20, 2004, 09:56:30 PM

i had  them in brooder with same
temp as bobwhites chicks
was feeding truckey starter but
it  wasnt grind up was this the
problem? are they  hard to  raise? :?

Title: baby pheasant
Post by: Lowake Hunter on April 20, 2004, 10:35:02 PM

If they turkey starter was in crumbles it shold of been fine, was there any kind of draft in the room, birds are just looking for a way to die, you gotta really watch them.

Title: pheasent
Post by: stanley roberts on April 21, 2004, 09:28:05 AM

there wasnt a draft in the place where i
had them ,are they hard to raise,
but the truckey starter has to be fine
in order for them to eat it maybe that
wasthe problem.

Title: pheasents
Post by: stanley roberts on April 22, 2004, 01:22:47 PM

i grind some truckey starter it looks like powder
is this to fine i have more hatching today
wish me luck :)

Title: baby pheasant
Post by: Pheasant Hollow Farm on April 22, 2004, 01:56:28 PM

stanley Roberts

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pheasent
there wasnt a draft in the place where i
had them ,are they hard to raise,
but the truckey starter has to be fine
in order for them to eat it maybe that
wasthe problem.

Quote

pheasents
i grind some truckey starter it looks like powder
is this to fine i have more hatching today
wish me luck :)

Stanley Roberts,

If you were grinding up the medicated turkey starter to a fine meal, this would be fine. I always run my medicated turkey starter through the blender. Most of the turkey starters are to course, (bigger then normal) for the day old pheasant chicks.  Are you dipping their beaks into the water after moving them from the hatcher?


I have hatched out so far 174 pheasant chicks and 7 died while still in the shell. The most important thing to do after the 24hr dry time in the hatcher is to dip their beaks into some water. I have another hatch due to be moved April 30th into the hatcher.
Good luck in your hatch.

Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm