Allandoo Pheasantry

Allandoo Pheasantry Ornamental Pheasant breeders in Southwest Scotland We have rare and ornamental pheasant species for sale throughout the year.

Some species of pheasant are extremely colourful, others have great character and some are intricately marked or even very delicate birds but all are wonderful aviary birds and many are very easy to look after.

And as we turn another page in life's storybook we're onto another new chapter. One from which springs an abundance of h...
31/12/2024

And as we turn another page in life's storybook we're onto another new chapter.
One from which springs an abundance of hope with days stretching and growth happening all around us from the earliest buds expanding to the explosion on the senses as the year progresses.

Happy new year to you all, may it be full of inspiration, good cheer and many accomplishments.

24/12/2024

To all our customers and bird lovers everywhere may your homes be filled with happiness, your minds with peace and your hearts with love this Christmas.
Best wishes to you all throughout the festive season.

Just thought I'd add a few pics today. These are all hardy birds. The Golden hen and the Elliot c***s are youngsters fro...
06/10/2024

Just thought I'd add a few pics today. These are all hardy birds. The Golden hen and the Elliot c***s are youngsters from this year's hatch and the Lewis Silver c**k and Temminck's Tragopan c**k are mature birds.

This year's hatch are growing fast. Here are photos of three of our hardy species.
16/08/2024

This year's hatch are growing fast. Here are photos of three of our hardy species.

21/05/2024

IT'S TIME!
Our final egg auction starts now!
It will finish at 9:00 pm tonight, the 21st May.

We have 32 eggs for sale this time and the starting price is a mere £40 including postage.
Please place your bids in the comments section below and as we are not exporting please only bid if you are in the UK.
Any late bids after 9:00pm will be inapplicable. So far our internet connection has behaved but please be aware that it can at times be very slow and obviously out of my control so I can only apologise if there is a last minute blip, I'll keep my fingers crossed that it runs smoothly when necessary.
Assuming payment is made promptly by the winning bidder the eggs will be posted tomorrow afternoon by special delivery so the buyer can receive them quickly.
The eggs are a bit of a mix so I would advise that more than one incubator is used to produce the best hatch rate possible and a little experience would be beneficial but I will do my best to help if anyone feels they are unsure about incubator settings etc.

So the eggs we have for auction are:

7 Reeves
5 True Silvers
5 Lady Amherst's
2 Goldens
3 Mikados
4 White Crested Kalij
3 Sonnerat's Junglefowl
2 Temminck's Tragopans
1 Koklass

Best of luck to the bidders.

Tomorrow, the 21st of May, will be our last egg auction. I shall post the details just as soon as the eggs have been col...
20/05/2024

Tomorrow, the 21st of May, will be our last egg auction. I shall post the details just as soon as the eggs have been collected and I know what we have available . This will probably be around midday and the auction will finish at 9 pm.
In the meantime here are a couple of photos of one of our Lady Amherst's c**k Pheasants:

We've decided our final egg auction this year will be on: TUESDAY the 21ST of MAY. We will have no more eggs for sale af...
18/05/2024

We've decided our final egg auction this year will be on:
TUESDAY the 21ST of MAY.
We will have no more eggs for sale after that day so if you're keen to buy them please check out our auction. It will be a "MEGA MIX" of eggs so using more than one incubator would be ideal to get the best hatch rate possible.

On a related note I thought I'd show you what our brooder boxes are like. We use these for the first couple of weeks or so of the chicks lives before they are put into small indoor pens. As you can tell by the colour of the photo, we use infra red heat lamps. For the first day or two there is rubber matting in the box to help give the chicks a really good grip so they can practise standing and walking without injury. I do tend to keep a small section of the box with just rough towels so I can scatter the chick crumb to encourage them to eat quickly and they love their cooked egg yolk which they seem to be naturally drawn to. I also dip each chicks beak into their water (with added bird tonic) when I first take them from the hatcher and put them into the brooder so I am sure they get a small drink to start them off well.

14/05/2024

Hi to all our lovely followers.
Today we are holding the 2nd of our 3 auctions this year.
We have a selection of 24 eggs this time and the starting price will be £35 including postage. Please only bid if you are in the UK as we are not exporting.

The 24 eggs are as follows:
6 True Silvers
6 Swinhoes
6 White Crested Kalij
6 Sonnerat's Junglefowl
I have chosen these eggs as they are all incubated at a similar humidity to simplify the incubation for the buyer. We would incubate them at a temperature of 37.7 °C and an RH of around 38 - 45% until close to hatching when humidity should be increased further.

You may have an idea of how this is going to work now but here are the instructions anyway:
Please bid by adding your amount to the comments below this post and in whole pounds only.
Bidding can commence as soon as this post is live and will finish at 9:00pm. Any bids after this time will not be counted.
Please be aware that our internet connection is not great and I can only go by bids when I see them so I'll have to cross my fingers and hope the connection behaves. I can only apologise if it doesn't. Once the auction has concluded I will pm the winner with our bank details and, assuming payment is made promptly, the eggs will be posted the following afternoon.

Now time to start! Best of luck to any bidders!

A wee tip when rearing ornamental pheasant chicks (and quite likely any other chicks too):Take care to check them thorou...
12/05/2024

A wee tip when rearing ornamental pheasant chicks (and quite likely any other chicks too):
Take care to check them thoroughly every day when very young. Take them out their brooder box and check if their bottoms are clean. Their digestive systems are only just starting to work to digest "proper" food and can find it difficult to begin with. Sometimes around day two or three an occasional chick might need it's bottom cleaned. Do this gently with cotton wool and warm sterile water. Once clean clabber it with Sudocrem, covering the chicks belly button too. The cream is an excellent soothing antiseptic barrier cream which has the added bonus that it's not tasty for the other chicks. This will stop any infections before they start keeping your chicks in tip top condition.

We will be holding another egg auction on Tuesday, that'll be the 14th May. Like the last time it will start as soon as ...
11/05/2024

We will be holding another egg auction on Tuesday, that'll be the 14th May. Like the last time it will start as soon as I know what eggs we have available on that day (probably around midday) and finish at 9:00 pm. The eggs will be posted the following afternoon as long as payment has been made by bank transfer beforehand. The eggs will be different species from the auction we had last week but should all be able to be incubated together as they are likely to need a similar humidity setting. More details will be given on the day of the auction so please check us out on Tuesday. We are not doing this all the time but need to make some time for our daughter and new wee granddaughter due soon and would rather our fb followers got the opportunity to hatch our eggs than them going to waste. If we can make a little bit of money for baby stuff into the bargain that's an added bonus.

06/05/2024

EGG AUCTION STARTS NOW!
Finishes at 9pm tonight 6th May

We have the following 20 eggs to auction today. They are being sold in one lot and the starting price which includes postage is £30.

The eggs are:
7 Reeves
3 Red Goldens
2 Yellow Goldens
4 Lady Amherst's
4 Elliots

Please bid by adding your amount in the comments.
It should be in whole pounds.
Bid only if you live in the UK as we are not exporting.
Any bids after 9:00pm will be inapplicable and not counted. Please be aware that our internet connection is not great so if there is a problem at the last minute I can only apologise. I would therefore advise not to wait until the last few seconds to bid - just in case. Eggs will be posted tomorrow assuming payment has been made by bank transfer beforehand. I will send our bank details to the winning bidder once the auction has concluded.

Incubation of your eggs:
If you wish to incubate all your eggs in one incubator and do not have a separate hatcher the eggs should be set so they are all hatching roughly together. As the above eggs do not all have the same gestation period the Reeves and Elliots should be set first followed by the Lady Amherst's two days later and a day after that the Goldens (Red & Yellow) should be added to the incubator. We set all of the species eggs in this auction at a similar humidity setting so that should simplify things for the buyer. We would set them at a temperature of 37.7 degree Celsius and around 27 - 32% relative humidity (RH). The reason for the vague humidity is due to hygrometers generally only being accurate to within about 5% but I would say 28 - 30% is ideal. The humidity should be raised for the last two - three days of incubation. This is important especially once the eggs have pipped the shell (broken a small hole in it) as the membrane inside will rapidly dry out without a high humidity (I would suggest 65 - 75%). If the membrane dries the emerging chick will become stuck and unable to hatch.

Now time to get on with the auction.
Good Luck!!!

02/05/2024

On Monday the 6th May we will be auctioning some eggs. This was a success last year so hopefully our internet connection will behave itself once again this time around. If things go smoothly we intend this year to sell a few "lots" this month. This is mainly due to my elder daughter expecting our first grandchild in early June so we are trying to create enough time for ourselves to have some special family time and be ready to head down to Liverpool at a moments notice, which is far from easy with loads of full incubators and chicks hatching left, right and centre.
Anyway, as soon as I know what eggs we have on Monday I shall post on here what will be in the auction and a starting price. As soon as that information is online the bidding can start. The auction will finish at 9pm and I will post the eggs to the winner the following afternoon as long as payment can be made by bank transfer by the Tuesday morning (7th May).

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Allandoo Farm, Leswalt
Stranraer
DG90LT

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