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Text Box: Shipping Starting in May through July, we ship our day-old chicks "per box" of 125, our minimum order to ship. Smaller orders may be picked up at the farm. The price is reduced for over 1000 pheasant chicks, further reduced for orders 5000 and 10,000+. Shipping is additional and increases per Post Office costs. We now must use the www.usps.com postage calculator to figure your Express Mail or Priority postage by weight and zone. This increase is one of the reasons why we would like to arrange truck deliveries on larger orders, or combined orders within 750 miles of Elkhorn Farms. Also consider ringneck pheasant adult- or partially-adult birds. Delivery prices vary on quantity, distance and the relative cost of fuel but generally is priced $.65 per mile, round trip. Please remember that our shipping/ pickup days for pheasant chicks are Wednesdays, except for holidays like the 4th of July. We strongly recommend Express Mail for day-old chicks with its one- or two-day delivery guarantee. We DO NOT recommend Priority Mail for pheasant chick deliveries to any but our neighboring states. We will only ship Priority with the understanding that we cannot guarantee the timeliness of arrival, or the viability of the pheasant chicks. The choice, responsibility and liability are totally yours.

Elkhorn Farms & Hatchery, Inc.

4154 Klopfenstein Road, Bucyrus, Ohio 44820

Raising and hunting game birds since 1962 * Hatching pheasants since 1986

419-562-6131

The 2011-2012 growing season has been incredible with birds scarce out west due to two bad winters affecting the population in the Dakotas, and weather from hurricanes and snow storms affecting pheasant stocks on the East Coast. Hunt clubs, field trial coordinators and producers who did not count on this were shocked when birds were depleted by early December. Folks, it was “piranhas at the feed.”

Perhaps we will learn one thing: Get contracts on birds! Solid commitments work both ways to benefit the whole industry, 1.) by allowing the producer to know what sales to anticipate, and 2.) by assuring the end user the birds he expects. We have even heard of some producers selling their breeder flock. There’s an old saying “Don’t eat your seed corn.”

We have published our 2012-13 chick and birds prices with the understanding that prices are subject to change due to feed, fuel and further conditions affecting costs. We have endeavored to keep prices down as always, but must increase proportionate with production cost increases.

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Thank you for your interest in our ringneck pheasant adults or day-old chicks. Our pheasants are a Chinese Ringneck with a slight Mongolian Cross, coloring up as adults with blue-green backs, white rings and dark burgundy body feathers. Some darker variations in coloration (“blacks”) appear infrequently, and are in great demand. We do not actively breed for that strain, and cannot predict how many we can provide. Since the process is time-intensive, we charge a surcharge of $.10 per chick to sort these.

Elkhorn hens dress out as adults at about 2 to 2¹/₂ pounds providing enough for the pot, while being highly flighty for good hunting. They are used regularly on our own and nearby hunt clubs, as well as shipped across the country with similar results, dependant on feeding practices.

Fuel and feed prices have received much recent focus, and rightly so. These costs impact your raising and pricing strategies “big time.” We wish you the wisdom of Solomon in figuring these issues out.

Shipping costs have also increased and will most likely continue to do so. Please note we can no longer estimate and extrapolate shipping costs, needing to use the www.usps.com postage calculator to figure your actual rate. If you need assistance in this area, please feel free to contact us. In the east, or closer zones, the costs seem less, and to the west, further away, they have increased. We will do our best to see you get them in a timely manner.

See our Basic Care & Keeping page for additional information regarding raising your birds. While we are willing to advise, you alone can care for your birds the way they should be tended. Educate yourself now about raising birds by reading Gamebird Propagation by late author John Mullin, or Dr. Swartz’ book Grower’s Reference on Gamebird Health. There are numerous gamebird educational seminars available through NAGA or regional associations.

“This is my second year raising pheasants and I am just amazed at how much help you are with the questions and concerns I had last year starting out …”

-T.L. 2011-

Text Box: Printable Directions to Elkhorn

Shipping adult–

or partially-adult birds

We cannot truck deliver adult or partially adult birds longer than 16 hours away, so delivery west of the Mississippi is not available. This does not apply to our chicks which travel by Express Mail in a shorter time. We would be glad to refer you to one of our chick customers near you for older birds.

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From chick…...to adult

Peg and Sam Ballou and the

Elkhorn Farms & Hatchery, Inc. staff

Updated February 14, 2012

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Elkhorn

Photo credit: Jay E. Gregory

Elkhorn Farms consists of three farms and surrounding properties in the Bucyrus area. See the “About Us” page.

Sold out of 2011 stock– NO ADULT PHEASANTS AVAILABLE

until Fall 2012.

2012 prices now posted.

Taking chick orders for mid to late May through July hatches