Seminar

The Biennial Pheasant Management Seminar is always exciting for us, as we get to meet old and new colleagues and hear some of the best speakers in the business. This year we had 123 guests, 17 from as far away as France, Romania, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our United States [...]

Please mark your calendar for March 3-6th, 2024, to attend the International Pheasant Management Seminar hosted by MacFarlane Pheasants in beautiful Wisconsin! This year’s event will take place in Beloit, Wisconsin, at the Ironworks Hotel.  Accommodations for attendees are at the Ironworks Hotel or the Hotel Goodwin, located across the street from the [...]

MacFarlane Pheasants 12th Bi-Annual International Pheasant Management Seminar was held in early March. There was a broad range of topics covered and guests from all over the world in attendance. Cass Cole and Jim Klempel were two truly interesting guests. Jim and Cass traveled to Janesville from Billings, Montana. Jim [...]

Presented by Derek Woods Director Pearce Sporting Services, Dorset England – Suppliers of game feed, game cover seed and ancillary equipment. Shoot Manager on the Crichel and Symondsbury Estates Director and Head Shooting Instructor of the DBW Clay Co. Crichel Estate, circa 10,000 acres, is a private estate situated on [...]

By Dr. Susan Watkins Interpreting Your Microbial Analysis This information sheet is to help you to interpret the results of your recent microbial analysis of poultry drinking water and/or well water.  It consists of excerpts from the paper “Water Quality and Sanitation” by Dr. Susan Watkins from the University of [...]

By Ron Willmore Natural Resources Site Manager INTRODUCTION The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) owns and operates the James C. Helfrich Wildlife Propagation Center (WPC) in central Illinois near Lincoln Illinois.  The facility, which is the only pheasant hatchery operated by the State of Illinois, was constructed in the late [...]

Presented by: Vern L. Christensen Department of Poultry Science North Carolina State University See full PowerPoint presentation here The final destination of the properly managed fertilized pheasant egg is the incubator within the hatchery.  Modern-day hatcheries generally have egg-setting capacities of thousands of eggs.  Fertilized pheasant eggs have a 24-day developmental period [...]