yep. That's why alot of pheasant people are so tight fisted with their birds. They don't want them to go to people who will cross them to add zeros onto a price tag. There's also the fact that the pheasant hobby is conservation oriented rather than ornament collecting.
The india blue is extinct as a species in captivity in the United States because of hybridization. Sure you get some that are superficially "blues" but often times you can see the result of Spalding heritage in the form of coal dusting coloration on the front of the wings. Wild blues look...