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Squidge
Joined: 17 Dec 2007
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Location: Folkestone, Kent
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 Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: Do Pheasants and Chickens interbreed? |
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| I feel stupid asking this question because I feel I ought to know the answer after all people cross breed game and domestic birds don't they? But would wild pheasants interbreed? I have a visiting threesome, male and two females, they melt in and out of the surrounding field and I found my cockerel quite unperturbed about them. Is this normal? |
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mojo
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Posts: 10116
Location: GLENAY north deux sevre FRANCE
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| no.....pheasants and chicken dont interbreed(for technical reasons) in fact pheasants only seem to breed with their own varieties.............as my gold have never bred with wild ones and a friend who has golds and amhurst says they wont cross bred...............so intresting as the chicks may seem unless interesting are into AI usage sorry no unless someone has proof different |
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moosele
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
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Location: suffolk
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mojo
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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Location: GLENAY north deux sevre FRANCE
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| looks like i am wrong again.......sorry......... it is possible but is a rare thing see above posting |
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kated
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
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Location: norfolk
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| I remember seeing an article about a cross between a pheasant and a bantam - called a phantom...........really! |
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Squidge
Joined: 17 Dec 2007
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Location: Folkestone, Kent
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| Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Having seen the hybrid of the Peacock with it's chicken mother I suppose anything is possible! |
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Welsh Duck
Joined: 18 Jul 2007
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Location: Herefordshire/Welsh Border
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I have heard of Phantoms.
I have also seen a hen crossed with a guinea fowl, very strange bird  |
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moosele
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
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Location: suffolk
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:51 am Post subject: |
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| Can also look on feather site, which has more about different crosses on the hybrid section. Only reason i found out about these is that i was given some day old pheasants to brood with some chicks under a broody and I wanted to make sure that there would be no cross breeding as they got older. So i sent the pheasants back at 16 wks just in case. |
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