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🐓 Manchurian Cross

Pheasants & Partridge · breed reference

The preserve trade's favourite cross — Manchurian-type blood over standard ring-neck, for a bird that carries a Jumbo's size with a Chinese bird's flush. “Manchurian” on a US price list almost always means THIS CROSS rather than pure *P. c. pallasi* from Manchuria, which is a genuinely rare aviary bird here; pinned because the two words cost very different money. A cross, so it doesn't breed true — keep buying chicks, or expect the size to drift back.