Anyone see Octobers pin-up model?

moellermd

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The PF calendar I got today shows a rooster with really white strips along its head on the October page. Kind of like this one.

pheasant.jpg


I shoot a lot of birds every year and never shoot one that has white on its head like that. Is it a pen raised bird thing? Anyone else encounter this?
 
Mike, I have seen and shot them but I never really thought much about it. I just passed it off as nature defect.............Bob
 
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moellermd said:
The PF calendar I got today shows a rooster with really white strips along its head on the October page. Kind of like this one.

pheasant.jpg


I shoot a lot of birds every year and never shoot one that has white on its head like that. Is it a pen raised bird thing? Anyone else encounter this?
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I've seen it on wild roosters more than once.
 
The pheasant in the picture you provided looks like it's crossed between a Monglian pheasant (thats most likely were the reddish tones come from/though I have seen pure Mongolians with white capped heads)
http://www.gbwf.org/pheasants/images/common_side.jpg

and a lighter colored pheasant such as the ones listed below. Typically the lighter/white heads come from the yellowish/lighter colored breeds of pheasants below. :) -1pheas4

Chinese pheasant http://www.gamebirdhunts.com/Portals/0/1614_ringneck.jpg

Manchurian http://www.aliceholt.org/manchurian pheasant.gif

Manchurianhttp://www.aliceholt.org/manchurian%20pheasant.gif


Kansas Blue back http://www.brineysbirdfarm.com/_resource/image/birds3.jpg
 
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Below are photos of some of my birds I raise for taxidermy. The first two roosters are crossed with the Kansas blue back (a breed formed by a now desisted breeder. McFarlane game farm out of Janesville Wis. bought the breed some years back) which is a lighter bird, but has what people call "racing strips" on its head. Quite a few wild birds now have this characteristic. A few springs back Rodger Hill took a photo of one in the wild in Lodi Wis. and it made the cover of the PF mag. I'll look later to see if I can post it here.

The third photo is a bird I mounted last season that has a very large white cap on his head with copper tones. This guy is most likely crossed with the Manchurian. Recently I've shot birds in the wild with all with and copper tones heads and a white spec below the waddle.-1pheas4

http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae150/1pheas4/sept23001.jpg
http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae150/1pheas4/sept23002.jpg
http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae150/1pheas4/sept23003.jpg
 
pheas

What I am gathering from what you are saying is that the white streaks are genitic and if those genitics are not present in the gene pool I am hunting I would not see it.
 
Moellermd; If you see a white spec below/behind the waddle, it most definitely has Manchurian in his gene pool. The so called "racing strips" found on the Kansas ring neck is a dead giveaway that a bird most likely has that breed somewhere in its genes.

This is another great example of a bird that is or has Kansas blueback in his genes. Notice the two stripes on the sides of his head.
http://www.birds4mounting.com/images/kansas_ringneck2_b.jpg

Now, could there be a "freak" that has similar traits? Of course. Even some of the Manchurian roosters have strips instead of caps. But as far as I know from ring neck/"black neck" breeds in their purest form, none other than what I've mentioned above carry these traits. (Note; Kansas Blueback ring neck is a breed developed in the U.S.)

As for white caps on the tops of their heads, well many of the lighter variations of ring necks carry this gene. Some of those breeds were mentioned in a previous post. Chinese Ring neck being the most common in the U.S.--1pheas4
 
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