Old English Blackneck Common Pheasant
A variety of the Common Pheasant
Pheasant · Olive eggs · Game
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About the Old English Blackneck Common Pheasant
The Old English Blackneck (the nominate P. c. colchicus, the original Caucasian bird) lacks the white collar entirely, the neck running unbroken green-purple into the body. It shows buff-to-brown wing coverts and rusty-chestnut upper-tail coverts rather than the pale grey of the ringneck. Long established in Britain, blacknecks are large, meaty and reputed as steady, home-loving birds; pure stock reverts toward ringneck after a few generations of crossing.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Olive
- Eggs per year
- About 50
- Purpose
- Game
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 24 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- Asia
- Scientific name
- Phasianus colchicus