Beautiful 7-color pheasant – declared the Phoenix of Greek mythology

This breed of pheasant was first brought to Europe at least in the 18th century, and George Washington was the first known American to preserve and develop this breed.

This beautiful bird has extremely simple care needs, and is very easy to breed. The adjacent image shows a group of seven-colored pheasants (three males and one female), with the courtship of the males indicating the steadfastness of the next generation, ensuring the well-being of the flock!

The Chinese have recorded seven-colored pheasants in many literary, artistic and mythological works over the centuries. Others have claimed that the pheasant is the Phoenix of Greek mythology (citing “History”, Liv 10 head. 2. P. 5), which was a legendary bird that lived 500 years .

The seven-colored pheasant has a cyclical life, and at the end of each millennium, 1/2 of them are said to burn themselves to ashes and then emerge in new beauty and immortality.

Players love pheasants because they have many colors and their gentle and pleasant calls.

Raising pheasants is not difficult, you can take advantage of empty spaces in the house such as the corner of the yard, porch, warehouse… Just build a cage covered with wire mesh or B40 steel mesh with a length of 1.5 m, 1.2m wide and 2m high, with sand or rice husks on the floor for female pheasants to lay enough to raise a flock of several chicks.

The main food of pheasants is rice, corn… and green vegetables. If possible, feed the birds earthworms or fresh shrimps…

Pheasants’ immunity is quite high, so they rarely get sick, but bird flu is always a threat, so players must also monitor and vaccinate them periodically. To ensure the success rate of raising pheasants, cleaning the cages is a very important factor. New individuals should go directly to farms and individuals with a lot of experience raising pheasants for reference and learning. experience .

With pheasants, in addition to male birds being raised as pets, female pheasants are also raised to get eggs and increase food sources for the family.

Pheasant meat is lean, firm and delicious, with small bones.
Pheasant eggs are only as small as chicken eggs, with a higher proportion of yolk than regular chicken eggs. Pheasant eggs are very nutritious and are often used as medicine for newly ill people and slow-growing children with a selling price that is ten times higher than regular chicken eggs.

Pheasants are very fertile, the egg hatching rate is very high, often reaching over 90%. Every year, birds usually lay 2 batches, each batch gives from 30 to 40 eggs.

Although raising pheasants is easier than other birds and ornamental fish because it doesn’t take much care, but if you want to have a pheasant that you like, you will have to invest a lot of time. You must choose a good breed and after choosing a good pheasant breed, cross-breeding to keep the breed and make it even better is not a simple task.

Raising pheasants is not only a joy for people in the province – where many people have large gardens to comfortably release pheasants. But even in crowded cities (Hanoi, Saigon…) ornamental pheasants have become the most exciting movement because playing pheasants has become even more special in the lives of a part of the urban population.