Black Pheasants

  • haleysgold
    SE MN
    Posts: 1459
    October 27, 2015 at 1:14 pm #1573593

    My brother raises these and regular ringnecks every year.
    Thought I’d post a couple pics that I thought were pretty cool looking.

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    CaptainMusky
    Posts: 22626
    October 27, 2015 at 1:42 pm #1573602

    They sure are cool looking. I will never forget one of my buddies from high school claimed he shot a “black pheasant” and had it mounted. It clearly looked like a hen. He said it cackled when it got up. Not too sure about that. It didn’t look anything like your photos, just a dark colored hen to me. He even swore that a game warden checked him with it. Skeptical.

    locolocal
    Posts: 21
    October 27, 2015 at 2:26 pm #1573611

    I saw a pile of those black pheasants (wild) hanging out in some CRP land I hunted in NoDak, a couple years ago. Very cool birds.

    Roost in trees and made a racket in the morning, when they flew down.

    Funny stuff.

    river rat randy
    Hager City WI
    Posts: 1736
    October 27, 2015 at 5:43 pm #1573648

    Does your brother live any where near Zumbro Falls or Mazzepa.? … rrr

    tegg
    Hudson, Wi/Aitkin Co
    Posts: 1450
    October 27, 2015 at 11:21 pm #1573700

    I believe they are referred as melanistic mutants. Bred in Europe.

    haleysgold
    SE MN
    Posts: 1459
    October 28, 2015 at 7:03 am #1573711
    river rat randy wrote:

    Does your brother live any where near Zumbro Falls or Mazzepa.? … rrr

    rrr – yep, in-between ZF and Mazzepa.

    river rat randy
    Hager City WI
    Posts: 1736
    October 28, 2015 at 11:37 am #1573804

    Well I guess i mite know where he lives then, cause I almost went in the ditch when I did a double triple take when I saw one of those black ones the other day. shock shock … rrr

    suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18605
    October 28, 2015 at 4:06 pm #1573867

    Last week when I was at the game farm they told me they released a black pheasant for me but I never saw it and I flushed my 6 birds.

    river rat randy
    Hager City WI
    Posts: 1736
    November 1, 2015 at 4:14 pm #1574563
    haleysgold wrote:

    My brother raises these and regular ringnecks every year.
    Thought I’d post a couple pics that I thought were pretty cool looking.

    ….Does your brother release some of them into the wild or all of them or none.? rrr

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