EXPERIMENTAL evidence on methods of propagating Ring-necked pheasants is not available. So far as the authors are aware, no records are available on a comparison of methods of incubation, feeding, brooding, or housing. Popular textbooks, one of the best of which is by Tegetmeier,** speak of the different phases of management in general terms. Each man has his own particular formula and method of feeding. Likewise, nearly all pheasant keepers incubate pheasant eggs and brood the chicks with chicken hens. Where propagation is conducted on a large scale this necessitates the purchase of a large number of broody hens; this is unsatisfactory and presents each year added hazard from diseases and intestinal parasites. A project, of which this is a preliminary report, was started in the late spring of 1931 to determine if ordinary artificial methods of incubation and brooding, with modifications necessary because of any peculiarities of the pheasant, . . .
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Callenbach et al. (1932) studied this question.