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🍗 White Ringneck

Pheasants & Partridge · breed reference

The white ring-neck — not albino (dark eyes), and the MARKET-WHITE RULE'S FOURTH APPEARANCE in this barn after the Pekin duck, the Broad Breasted turkey and the White guinea: pale pin feathers dress a clean carcass, so the meat trade keeps choosing white. THE SAME TRADE-OFF, TOO, and the Melanistic Mutant is its exact mirror: a white pheasant on green cover is the most visible bird on the property, so it's a poor release bird and hawks prove it. Also kept simply because it's beautiful — and it will throw normal-coloured young over any Chinese cock.