FAISAN PUR CHASSE®: our exclusive game pheasant strain

The GIBIS strain trademark

What is the FAISAN PUR CHASSE®?

The FAISAN PUR CHASSE® is the exclusive game pheasant strain developed by GIBIS, a game breeder in Chatte (Isère) since 1951. It is a registered trademark: it guarantees a bird resulting from several decades of rigorous genetic selection, driven by one simple criterion — to produce a pheasant that behaves like a wild pheasant. Unlike intensively reared pheasants, the FAISAN PUR CHASSE® comes from entirely natural breeding in aviaries: natural pairing, natural brooding, no artificial insemination and no mechanical incubation. Reared thereafter in large planted aviaries of over 10 000 m², it develops from the earliest age the reflexes that make the difference in the field: fast flush, sustained flight and the ability to seek cover.

Natural breeding, with nothing artificial

The hardiness of a strain begins with breeding. At GIBIS, FAISAN PUR CHASSE® breeding stock pair and brood naturally in aviaries: parental behaviour is preserved, generation after generation. It is this choice — more demanding than large-scale mechanical incubation — that keeps in our birds the alertness and instinct characteristic of wild game.

Natural pairing

No artificial insemination: pairs form naturally in the aviary.

Natural brooding

No mechanical incubation: parental behaviour is preserved in every generation.

Decades of selection

Genetic work pursued over decades to fix the flush, the flight and the wary behaviour.

In the field: the difference shows within seconds

The demonstration is regularly given to visitors to the game farm, as during the open day held with the Isère Departmental Hunters' Federation in July 2026: a pheasant from intensive rearing runs on the ground and lets you walk up to it; a FAISAN PUR CHASSE® takes wing the moment you enter the pen. Explosive flush, powerful flight that gains height, then cover: this is the pheasant sought after on driven days as much as on walked-up shooting. As shooting pheasants for the season — adults of 20 weeks minimum — as much as restocking poults released in summer at 12–16 weeks, the strain brings the same hardiness. That is also why it is chosen for estate restocking programmes: a bird that flies and escapes predators is a bird that settles.