06/23/2019
Not good news for Everlasting Pheasant Preservation, and sad news all together. Last week's record lows killed off most of last week's first hatch. The first night took a 3rd out of hundreds, the stress and cold has picked them off one by one the following days. The natural first hatching season was alreasy a disaster because of the snow we had a month and a half ago which will greatly harm the populations in the wild too. Their are limited hatching seasons all based on weather Temps. The batch that I had, the heat lamps couldn't keep up. If i had lowered them anymore it takes heat away from the sides and would cook the ones trying to bunch up in the middle. The ones that survived the initial shock, became stressed which has been killing them off daily. The few survivors I now have are only a few.... but they are past the threat as of today. This was very sad to watch them sieze up and die in your hands. We have one more hatch season here for the programs coming up. Only onr more, due to the age when we must release to survive a possible cold spell fall or early winter. The wild will have 2 hatching seasons lefy, but if cold comes early, that last wild hatch season will also be decimated. We have had a very wet spring as everyone knows, so i am not very obtamistic for this year's surveye count for wild populations. Sorry about the bad news everyone, but no one can predict the weather. This is the "LEADING CAUSE OF KILL OFFS IN PHEASANT POPULATIONS." Un predictable and extreme weather. That is why habitat is so important in the wild. They are a hardy grassland bird, but the very opposite as embryos and chicks.... We desperately need donations for the next batch as i have to double it which means more materials, building add on broods for square footage and feed as they consume a ton. We will be over populated and they will kill themselves unless I work hard to prevent this. This all has to be done to meet the conservation releases on time. ++Please help our cause by donating.++ You can click on the donation button which directly sends the funds to tell e.i.n. of Everlasting Pheasant Preservation, or you can contact us on messanger. Thank you