Old English Pheasant Fowl

An alert, active breed that originated in Northern Britain. Once called the Yorkshire Pheasant, Golden Pheasant or Old-fashioned Pheasant, it was given its present name in 1914, although the breed is much older.

Active and alert, it is a light bird with a meaty breast. It has a neat rose comb with a smooth face and wattles, and also crescent spangling - a quarter moon shaped spot of colour at the end of each feather.

Available: large fowl only.
Weight: Hen 4.5-6lb, 2-2.7kg.
Cockerel 5.5-7lb, 2.5-3.2kg.

Colours: gold - a bright rich bay colour with dark markings; silver - white with beetle green-black markings.
Eggs: white.

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