Pheasantry

As a pheasant, pheasant chamber or Fasanengarten is called an enclosure, are held in the pheasants. It is often extensive and adapted to the habitat of the animals.

Nature

This means for obtaining the pheasant stock, a distinction in

• Tame pheasant and
• Wild pheasant.

In tame pheasant laying and hatching of turkey breeder hens and is monitored and regulatory intervention by the breeder be foreclosed. In wild pheasant farms, the animals are largely left to themselves, but ensures the Heger (usually the forestry staff ) for a reduction of natural enemies.

The Pierer lexicon of 1857 writes regarding the nature and requirements of a pheasant: " A good pheasant include:

• Flat or south-facing, not too cold layer,
• Larger and smaller moist to wet surfaces,
• Busch wood with berry growth, meadows, fields, water, protection from cold winds;
• Environment of wood or brick,
• Traps for wild beasts. "

So-called Pheasant chambers are still a practice sometimes used to make life pheasants in a biotope. For a large piece of terrain is consuming wild sure eingegattert and it kept clipped pheasants. The aim is that this here undisturbed pull descendants and leave the chamber after obtaining their ability to fly each and the hunting ground inhabit. Suitable chambers have some not too high, suitable for Aufbaumen trees, a piece of fresh wet meadow and water in the form of a stream or grave or run a small, non- desiccating pond.

Development

In Germany pheasantries exist around since the late 17th century. Here they served the nobility mainly as populated with beautiful birds destination, see also the menagerie. For this reason, peacocks were also often located. During and especially after the Second World War were the pheasant stocks severely depleted ( as cause you take in addition to the consequences of war and food shortages of the population ). To compensate for these losses again, decided numerous Landesjagdverbände in 1950/ 51, the establishment of various rearing pheasant.

Some recreational areas of cities still wear based on the earlier defined function is called pheasant, although there myself only very rarely encountered a copy of this genus.

Known pheasantries

Germany

• Wildlife Park Old pheasantry by small Auheim
• Pheasant in Aschaffenburg
• Animal and plant park pheasant in Wiesbaden
• Munich - pheasant, a district in the north of Munich
• Recreation area pheasant, part of Europe's rose garden in Zweibrücken

Poland

• Pheasant in Poremba, Silesia