Pheasant Fact Friday!💡 With the first deep snow or ice storm, people start to worry about the pheasants starving. Death due to starving during inclement weather is extremely rare if they have adequate winter habitat. Pheasants are quite comfortable spending up to three days without feeding. Let’s say the birds have just finished feeding when a blizzard hits with its snow and chilling winds. The birds immediately go to heavy grass cover to wait out the storm. Once in protective cover, all the food they have eaten will be utilized in three to four hours. Then they will start using body fat to keep warm. Fat constitutes more than 13 percent of a pheasant’s January weight. This equates to 142 grams or 992 kcal of usable energy. This is enough to support a nonfeeding pheasant two to three days. If needed, muscle tissue could then be burned for warmth for another 10 days. The first blizzard is the easiest to survive, while each subsequent storm finds birds with less fat and in poorer physical condition. #pheasantsforever #pheasants #pheasanthunting

On The Wing Podcast Ep. 244: Biologist, Explorer, Conservationist, and Hunter Donnie Vincent, is live. Listen now at the link in our bio or wherever you get your podcasts. Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever President and CEO Marilyn Vetter for an in-depth conversation with Donnie Vincent, a biologist, explorer, conservationist, hunter, and filmmaker. Vincent will serve as the keynote speaker at the organization’s Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic National Banquet on March 2nd in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Episode Highlights: - Vincent explains the origin of his favorite quote, “To experience fantastic things, you have to put yourself in fantastic places” and how that ethos fits into his approach to life and filmmaking. - Vetter tells the funny and winding story of connecting with Donnie Vincent through a friend from Alaska, Ken Gates, that resulted in her husband having an impromptu hour and a half long conversation with Donnie in the fishing aisle of a Wisconsin sporting goods store. - Vincent also gives a taste of the habitat and hunting thoughts he’s building his keynote address around.

Pheasant Fact Friday!💡 Most experts agree that pheasants increase weight from September through December, but disagree if weight continues to increase through January and February. Whether they do or do not depends on weather conditions. The amount of energy available for fat production, or weight gain, is determined by outside temperatures. A harsh January can stop fat production, and cause existing fat and muscle tissue to be used for warmth ... with a corresponding weight loss. With normal January weather, hens will stop producing fat, and use what they eat for warmth, without using existing fat or muscle. In this situation, the hen will hover around 2.4 lbs. If mild conditions exist in January, part of her diet can be used to make body fat and increase weight. Depending on conditions, fat in January can be more than double that of December. #pheasantsforever #pheasants #pheasanthunting #pheasantfactfriday

Wingshooter Rig Walkthrough presented by @onxhunt, @pheasants_forever, and @quail_forever. This Wingshooter Rig Walkthrough features PF Member and upland hunter Phil Higgins, giving us the rundown on his upland rig and its features that assist the traveling wingshooter. Stay tuned for more wingshooter rigs, to find ways you can build out an upland rig that best suits you and your dogs. Don’t forget to check out OnX’s in-dash capabilities at onxhunt.com #onxhunt #pheasantsforever #quailforever #uplandhunting #overland