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The odd female has been known to do this display as well. Young males particularly like to practice this when they have an audience. He moves his neck in a snake-like manner while bouncing forward on both legs with his tail flung up in the air. This breeding display consists of the the male tilting as far forward as possible without falling on his head with his wings spread and his cheek feathers slanted forward to cover part of his eyes and beak. Impeyans do make a high pitched scream/shriek when they feel threatened and a hiss/heavy breathing noise during their breeding display. See Scintillating Copper Article for predator proofing set-up.Pens contain grass, but since Impeyans are rooters, need to move to another pen every 1-3 years to let the grass come back.1 Impeyan Hut (1' x 1' x 2' high) containing straw in the corner for laying eggs.Pens are covered with 2" diamond top-rite.25' long x 10' wide x 6' high with a 4' x 4' x 4' house in the middle.You can mix quite a variety of ages and sexes without problems. Chicks are very easy to raise together with their own kind.After they are toughened up, they are moved to an outside chick pen. After they are off of the heat for a few weeks, they are moved outside to the pheasant house (has outside grassy pens and a heated inside house part where they are blocked in for the night).The heat lamp is attached to a dimmer switch so we can turn down the amount of heat as the chicks get older until it is turned off completely. All of these brooding pens have wire bottoms with a heat lamp at one end and feed & water at the other end. They stay with this grouping until they are sold. They are then transferred to an all Impeyan 2' x 6' pen for the next 7-9 weeks. After a few days they are separated into a 2' x 4' baby pen for about a week. They start out in our round 18" brooder pen with a mixed assortment of chicks.They look like tiny brown and black striped sumo wrestlers with stocky stubby legs. When the chicks come out of the incubator they are the pudgiest and one of the cutest chicks you will ever see.After the chick hatches, it stays in the hatcher for a minimum of 8 hours.
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On the final day of incubation, each egg is placed in its own oval wire mesh hatching basket (6" x 3" x 3") and set in the Sportsman Rattite hatcher.Temperature 99.8☏, humididty-wet bulb 80 with humidity adjusted periodically depending on development of the air space shown by candling.Eggs are set in an automatic turning Lyons Roll-X (RX2) with grid 71.Eggs are collected twice a day and marked with the date and breeding pen number and set daily.They start laying eggs around the end of the first week of April and will lay every second day until they lay approximately 12-20 eggs.We have had females lay a few eggs in their first year though. Impeyans are second year birds meaning that the female will not lay eggs and the male is not fertile until their second year.Trios are not recommended because the dominant female will usually try to kill the less dominant female. Impeyans are very monogamous birds and become very attached to their mate. They get a handful of mixed grains every second day except during breeding season, fresh greens (lettuce, chickweed, dandelions, grass) and fruits (tomato, grapes, berries, etc.) when available. We feed our breeders and young adults 16% layer pellets, our tiny chicks 25% Turkey Starter crumble, and our growing chicks 20% crumble.Female - Shades of brown and cream with well defined feather pattern.Male - large & stocky with assorted coloured metallic feathers and a black front.(from A Monograph of Pheasants Volumes I & II, William Beebe) Species English name: Impeyan Pheasant/Himalayan Monalĭistribution: Himalayas - from Afghanistan to Bhutan
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