How common would they be ,My Grandson wants to mount one that he shot he is 23 . I have never seen one . Just wondering

Captive raised ones are common, you can order as many black chicks as you want. Hard to say if it's a true wild one or a released. I guess it just depends on how much it means to him.

I'd mount it

Sorta like the “white” turkeys guys kill down here. When there’s a farm raising them a mile away, why mount it?

Is it a mechanistic phase of a ringneck pheasant or a sichaun pheasant? Sichauns are black or very dark and are a different sub-specie of pheasant. Or game commision used to stock them when they were trying to restore the pheasant population because they have different breeding habits than ringnecks.

If it’s wild mount it. My opinion

There is an area NE of my hometown that over the course of the past 30+ years we have taken 3 black roosters. They have all come from the same general area, four sections. We have never seen nor heard of another anywhere around. There is no, nor ever been a pheasant farm anywhere up there. We are close friends with all the neighbors up there, none of there families have ever raised pet birds either. Our thoughts are just a genetic anomaly up in that population that shows itself everyone and then.

My question to you would be have you seen one ,Do you have one ,I am seventy-one and this is a first to me .This is a heavy bird and no one in the area raises them ,So were gonna mount it and thats a take

IMO, that looks like a sichaun. I'd mount it no matter if it's a black ringneck or a sichaun.

Beautiful bird !!!

He wants to mount it ?? Do it !!!

That being said............ This past Monday, I saw 8-10 pheasants in a winter wheat field down over the bank of the highway. Of those, probably over half were melanistics. But there's a mile long bottom there that guys release birds to hunt. These weren't wild-raised birds.

I seen one several times this fall running my short line. Always seemed to be around the same place and had thought about going after it. Mentioned it to the local LO and he said one of the neighbors had raised about a dozen or so and released them this fall. I decided to let it be, maybe they'll multiply. It is a beautiful bird, I would probably get it mounted.

They do occur once in a while in the wild And at the same time it is possible that it is a pen raised bird But it looks pretty sharp to me And if I was the young man that shot it and liked it enough to want to get it mounted I WOULD NOT CARE ONE BIT WHAT SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT THINK OF IT .He shot it legal and that gives him the right to do with it what he chooses If that is what he does with it post another pic of it when it is finished

You can count on it

mount it , its about the memory

The Sportsman Club we belong to will plant Melanistic Roosters upon request- I have never seen a Jet Black one like that...Grandpa should have that mounted for him- if he traps, a flushing bobcat fence post mount would be awesome.

I have never seen a black one , but I have a white albino one mounted ..
My father shot when he was a kid . He was afraid he shot one of the Niebore's chickens ,
So he stuffed it down a wood chuck hole ..
When my grandfather questioned him , about what he shot , my dad told him what he had done ..
They went back and pulled the pheasant back out of the wood chuck hole .
My grandfather had it mounted for him ..

Turns out , the older guys had seen this bird and where all trying to get him..

Shot one last year. Closest guy I knew that raised them was about 8 miles away. Tasted good and I used the feathers for trapping fox.

Mount it