Male Yellow and Red Golden Pheasants

If you like bright colors, you will like the male Golden pheasant. There is no other bird that can compare to his brightness and attractive appearance. The following description will give an idea of his beauty.

Male Reeves Pheasant

These rather large pheasants not only have a beautiful color pattern, but have “personality plus." The males can be rather aggressive toward their keepers. Our mature male was aways watched very carefully. Our children would not go into the pen with him and when we had to feed and water it was a stand-off on who would intimidate whom. I like to think that we won as we never got jumped on, but I am sure that the male pheasant thought that he got the best of us. We had a trio in a very large pen and they kept their tail feathers in good condition.

Newly Hatched Chick

One of the greatest miracles of nature is the transformation of the egg into the chick. A chick emerges after a brief three weeks of incubation. The complexity of the development cannot be understood without training in embryology.

Red Breasted Goose

For many years while the Russian possessions were more or less closed to foreigners, very little was known about this very beautiful goose. Occasionally one or two pairs would be brought out but generally they were unknown to the avicultural world. The few that were in the hands of zoos and private breeders were not producing in captivity. The word got out that they would not produce in captivity for some unknown reason. Probably this bad reputation was the result of the sexes being identical (except the female is slightly smaller than the male). Some began to produce in captivity when vent sexing came about and true pairs were put together in happy environments.