2/1/09
Award-winning chef, hunter shares favorite game dishes
The call of the wild cannot be ignored by Ted Cizma, executive chef at Grand Traverse Bay and Spa. A meal of wild game, venison, duck and pheasant is stimulating food, boldly prepared and ridiculously good when field-dressed by Cizma.

12/12/05
Important Facts About Avian Influenza.
H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (also known as "bird flu") is not in the United States and never has been.

12/1/2005
Bird Shippers of America Answer HSUS Charges
In a letter dated November 21, 2005, Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), wrote Postmaster General John E. Potter citing "long-standing concerns" of the practice of the air mail of birds because of the "severe humane implications for millions of birds mailed across the county every year." BSA will be contacting officials of the USPS and Members of the Congress regarding the misinformation and statement raised in the HSUS letter

9/15/2005
Post Office Tells FedEx to Start Carrying Live Animals
On August 26th, Paul Vogel, Vice President, Network Operations Management of the USPS wrote a letter to FedEx demanding that they begin carrying live animals under its mail contract.

05/05/2004
Health-conscious eaters are going for game By Stett Holbrook (Special to the Mercury News)
For a nation born of revolution we're pretty conservative when it comes to dinner. We like our hamburgers, boneless chicken breasts and pork chops. Despite recent attempts to bring buffalo and ostrich into the mainstream, wild an...

04/30/2004
Find or Market a Hunt Club- New Pheasant Hunting Directory Launched!
MacFarlane Pheasants, Inc in cooperation with Jon Ballard, a local hunting enthusiasts and web site developer, have put together a site for gamebird hunting enthusiasts. The site, www.gamebirdhunts.com, includes clays, land leases, hunting guides.

12/30/2003
Gaming the System: That Wild Pheasant Never Left the Farm-
Exotic Species With a Secret Turn Up On Chic Menus- Osso Bucco
By JAMES P. STERBA Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
JANESVILLE, Wis. -- The shipping department at MacFarlane Pheasants Inc. gets frenzied in December, as America's autumna...

08/15/2003
Sales Taxation Of Gamebirds by Kris Beeler
An issue that has come to light in our home state (Wisconsin) is the taxation of gamebirds from producer to hunt clubs/shooting preserves. At present, the law in effect requires the payment of sales tax when the bird is sold by the producer to a hunt club or shooting preserve. In ou...

06/10/2003
Manchurian Cross Leave Their Mark
The Sheboygan County Conservation Association (SCCA) consists of 33 conservation-minded clubs (boating, fishing, sport shooting, hunting, trapping, etc.) in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. The SCCA is recognized state-wide for its multitude of programs and improvement of Wisconsin’s great outdoors. ...

04/17/2003
MacFarlane Pheasant Farm Name Change
MacFarlane Pheasant Farm, Inc is now MacFarlane Pheasants, Inc. The seventy-four years of experience and service that helps solidify the quality product offered has not disappeared. Neither have the barns or pens that raise the thousands of pheasants. Everything is as it was when the "Farm" was ...

04/10/2004
A successful Seminar 2004: Looking ahead.
MacFarlane Pheasants, Inc. presented their "4th International Pheasant Management Seminar" on March 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of 2004. Previously three seminars have been provided for international and domestic gamebird growers. The seminars touched on a variety of subjects and off...

04/07/2003
With Stocks Down, the Pheasant Is Often Taken 'Private,' but Purists Don't Like It By JAMES P. STERBA
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - February 1, 1999
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Molly, a springer spaniel, bounds through switchgrass and nose-high snow, her bobtail on red alert as four orange-vested hunters thumb their sho...