A Detailed Guide to Ring-Necked Pheasant Farming Techniques and Management Methods

Seeing many news reports saying that so-and-so became rich by farming ring-necked pheasants, are you paying attention to how to raise ring-necked pheasants? Below, the editor will briefly discuss the farming techniques for ring-necked pheasants.

Housing and breeding of ring-necked pheasants

Pheasant houses should be built on dry, gentle, sunny and wind-sheltered sandy soil in a good environment that drains easily. Use open-style pheasant houses, with an open-air fenced exercise yard in front of the house; the exercise yard area should preferably be — times that of the pheasant house. For open-range free-range pheasants, install perches inside the house; perches can be either vertical frames or flat frames. Nail the perch into a ladder shape and stand it against the wall, which is called a vertical frame; nail the perch wood into a stool shape and place it inside the pheasant house, which is called a flat frame. The perch wood should have a flat and smooth surface, with each piece spaced more than 60 cm apart, and each pheasant should have more than 30 cm of perch length. Set feeders and tower-shaped vacuum drinkers on — side of the exercise yard. Pheasants like dust bathing, so set up a sand pool in the exercise yard, — generally built with bricks into a pool 40 cm high. Put in sand and keep the sand area clean.

Artificially domesticated pheasants can reach sexual maturity at 5—6 months of age. Ring-necked pheasants — generally begin mating in early March, start laying eggs, and finish by October. The male-to-female ratio is preferably 1:5—6. Egg-laying nests should be set in quiet, dark places. Hens mostly lay eggs in the afternoon; to prevent egg pecking, collect eggs promptly.

Feed types and rations for ring-necked pheasants

1. Daily ration formula for young pheasants (%): 1—20 days of age: cooked eggs 65, cornmeal 8, soybean meal 16.5, wheat bran 3, bone meal 1, salt 0.5, yeast 2, poultry growth promoter 3.5, vitamin mix 0.5. 20—40 days of age: cooked eggs 30, cooked fish 20, cornmeal 19.5, soybean meal 15, wheat bran 8, bone meal 2, salt 0.5, yeast 2, poultry growth promoter 2.5, vitamin mix 0.5. 40—60 days of age: cooked fish 50, cornmeal 19.5, soybean meal 15, wheat bran 8, bone meal 2, salt 0.5, yeast 2, poultry growth promoter 2.5, vitamin mix 0.5,

2. Daily ration formula for growing pheasants (%): cooked fish 15, corn 41.5, soybean cake 15, wheat 15, fish meal 5. Mineral supplement 8, vitamin supplement 5 grams per 100 kg, salt 0.5.

3. Daily ration formula for adult pheasants (%)

① During the non-breeding period (11—2 months): corn 61, wheat bran 14, soybean cake meal 12, fish meal 8, shell powder 3, bone meal 1.5, salt 0.5.

② During the breeding period (3—10 months): cornmeal 40, wheat flour 20, sorghum flour 6.5, soybean cake meal 15, fish meal 10, vitamin supplement 5 grams per 100 kg, mineral supplement 8, salt 0.5.

Chicks: 20—30 grams per day; growing pheasants: 30—40 grams per day; adult pheasants: 40—50 grams per day. Feeding must be done at fixed times. From hatching to 4 weeks of age, feed 5 times a day starting at 6 a.m.; from 5—8 weeks of age, feed 4 times a day starting at 6 a.m.; adult pheasants, feed 3 times a day starting at 6 a.m., with free access to clean water.

The economic value of ring-necked pheasants

Ring-necked pheasant meat is delicious and nutritious, containing various amino acids essential to the human body as well as multiple trace elements such as calcium, sodium, and sulfur. Its protein content is 28.94%. The gallbladder, blood, and gizzard lining of pheasants can be refined into medical preparations, with extremely high tonic, medicinal, health-care, and beauty value. Male pheasant feathers can be made into feather handicrafts and can also be woven into satin and brocade to make formal wear; pheasant skin can be made into various exquisite leather goods. It is a rare bird animal that combines food, medicinal, and feather uses, a "special farming" rare bird with extremely high comprehensive utilization value.  

Farming benefits of ring-necked pheasants 

Farming ring-necked pheasants has the characteristics of diverse eating habits, strong adaptability, and quick results. Diverse eating habits: pheasants eat rice bran, wheat bran, various vegetables, paddy, sorghum, corn, maggots, etc., similar to domestic chickens. Strong adaptability: pheasants tolerate high temperatures and resist severe cold, growing normally from 35 degrees above zero to 45 degrees below zero, and are not choosy about climate, region, or environment.

Ring-necked pheasant farming gives quick results: generally, pheasant chicks after hatching can be marketed at around 70 days, reach 3 jin at 100 days, breeding pheasants lay eggs at more than 5 months, and annual egg production can reach 150. If calculated at 100 eggs, with a fertilization rate and incubation rate of 85%, and a survival rate of 90%, 60 chicks can be produced.