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Pheasants
Game Birds Available for purchase:
As registered veterinarians our priority is the care and welfare of the birds we breed and this ensures our clients are provided with quality game birds at realistic prices.
- Fertile eggs – for under a broody hen or artificial incubation
- Day old chicks – require constant temperature heat source for at least 4 weeks
- Poults – juvenile birds that are more self-sufficient, no longer requiring artificial heating
- Adult birds - ex-breeding stock, 1 year old
The ideal release habitat
Consists of 1/3 tall trees, 1/3 smaller shrubs and 1/3 open ground. The size of release area will depend on the number of birds you wish to release. Pheasants like warm sites with dappled light. The birds require a ready source of clean water and supplementary feeding.
Key factors influencing successful release of gamebirds on your property:
At New Zealand Game Birds we aim to supply healthy birds ready for release into the wild at 6-7 weeks of age. Releasing poults at this age is ideal as they are dependent on you for their food supply and tend not to stray as readily as older birds.
The success of the released birds
Is greatly influenced by predator control – cats, mustelids (stoats, weasels, ferrets), and dogs are the main culprits.
Future breeding success will also depend on control of egg/chick stealing predators such as hedgehogs, possums, rats etc.