At my place, I have had many chickens since as far back as I can remember. I group them into two divisions...Half of the chickens being good egglaying birds, and the others, bantams (show birds). Well I have also breeded these birds for years and found out that the bantams are great birds for setting on eggs to hatch. A few years ago, I bought a couple pheasant eggs off of an individual, and when a bantam hen began to set I replaced her eggs with the pheasant eggs. Three weeks later we had pheasants. We let the mother raise the young until they could survive on their own, then separated them from the mother, slowing turning the pheasants more and more wild. Mind you they were still part domestic, but they eventually became spastic but looked great. We ended up keep one hen and a rooster, and they ended up breeding and giving eggs. We ended up taking those eggs and having those hatched under another bantam hen. We did this many times and ended up with over 20 pheasants over a 2-3 year period. We could have easily hatched MANY more, but we just chose to limit how many due to the cost of raising them. Surprisingly this method turned out very well. This method can be hard work at times, but it definitely works and is fairly cheap. We ended up keeping most to eat /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif but the first rooster and hens that we kept we eventually let go in a nearby woodlot. Hope this helped.