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I know you do/ or have alot of different cross breed pheasants but would a cross bred hen have a mantle/cape or crest feathers, like this one? I've never seen a hen, cross bred or pure with a mantle. Just curious, that would be a new one on me! It is pretty wouldn't mind having it.

kamad, SHE is a HE!!! You need to seperate them immediately. They will fight till one kills the other. Most likely, they were not in the same pen when you got them. It is breeding season for them right now, so if there are other hen pheasants around, and the older male sees, hears, smells them...

Yep, as i expected, an Amherst X Golden cross. Wish this kind of thing didn't happen but at least you have learned a lesson...an hopefully you won't try to pass them on as pure or breed them.

Another classic example of a seller, taking advantage of someone who doesn't know the difference between "pure" birds and a cross. So buyer has crossbred birds, hatches some and and sells them as "pure". Perpetuating the dilution of pure bloodlines. If they were a responsible breeder/ seller...

Yeah, I noticed that too! The one on the branch appears to have Amherst in it, blue/ gray legs and the white breast, the other one certainly isn't a pure golden. That's why I asked for a better picture.

Kamad, could you possibly take a better picture? I enlarged/zoom the pic, and it appears, to me at least, what you think is a hen, actually looks like a juvenile male to me. The reddish color of the head. That could be the reason it's on the branch...to stay away from the other male, it's...