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Quote: No pheasant can cross with a chicken to produce fertile offspring. The only fertile offspring between pheasants are between species within the same genus -though there are some fertile male hybrids between genera.

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Randy, you've rapidly become a leader in pheasant production. You can make the decision to educate your consumer/customer base with the correct vernacular. It's up to every hobbyist to facilitate progress and become a part of a long-term solution. This is an important topic you've started. Let's...

Quote: Just for the record, the right definition of hybrid is an animal resulting from the cross of two different species (per example Lady Amherst Pheasant x Golden Pheasant). Then, an hybrid may (or not) be fertile (per example Male Mule is an infertile hybrid, and a 'Lady Amherst Pheasant x...

Is it possible you have a niacin deficiency in your Chrysolophus pheasants? Is it possible someone grasped the bird with both legs in one hand- that is hock to hock? Is it possible both may have occurred? There isn't much you can do for the leg itself but you can affect the enclosure in such...

I don't know where to start here- so many queries seem to be not gaining traction. I think I may have to start a few new threads that deal with each of these respective issues separately.

I'm traveling at the moment actually for the next three weeks or so- sorry to be hasty. The issues here a multi-faceted. Hybridization of captive wild species is one of the greatest threats to captive populations. There will simply never be another chance. You don't get to go back in time...

I just spent twenty plus minutes writing a preface to what follows and some sort of operator malfunction of the server has eaten that. I'll have to return to this later. Difficulty of defining "species" and identifying particular species Main article: Species problem The Greenish Warbler...