RE: BIRDS OF MINI ZOO
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The Golden and Lady Amherst's Pheasant are incredibly beautiful. However, they are quite bloodthirsty predators, and I only learned this when I undertook to raise them. They are very similar to ordinary chickens, merciless and brutal to their co-captives as chicks. I gave up on raising them when one ate the brains of 23 of his fellows overnight.
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Edit: Actually, I recall now that it was a Reeve's Pheasant that cannibalized his coopmates, while raccoons or bobcats did in for the Golden's and Lady Amherst's. While I lost my investment in the pheasant rearing business, I felt a sense of relief that I wasn't obligated to care for such monsters anymore.
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wow!! it's news for me! some creatures look so nice and pretty but in fact...
they are the example.
I am disappointed in them now;)
I think nature conceals the brutal reality that life feeds on life with the beauty of the living.
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what an interesting story :)
sorry for your experience... but yeah.. it's experience ;)
Had I known then what I know now about the fierce battle for life faced by those chicks, I would have rethought my business plan. The vision of incomparably beautiful birds roaming freely on wooded property is quickly dashed by piles of peacock feathers near raccoon tracks, and the reason for the verdance of the forest rejects that aesthetic: life feeds on life, and most where life lives best. Free roaming game birds, no matter the electric blue, gold, and scarlet of their beauty, are quick snacks in fecund, feral forest they aren't adapted to.
Here Ruffed Grouse, wild Turkey, and Band-Tailed Pigeons have evolved with bobcats and foxes, and in the forest, while pheasants are generally evolved for grasslands, which installs a different suite of security software in their genes.
Considerable investment is required to raise such delicious birds, and free range unworkable absent effective barriers to wily predators. Just like slugs in the garden or birds at the berry crop, just more expensive crops.