Raising the Young Once chicks hatch, the hen attends them almost constantly until the brood is 8 - 12 weeks old.
Summer marks the brooding stage in the pheasant reproductive cycle.
Normally the hen remains with her brood until the young are 8 - 12 weeks old. If a brood is lost, few hens will renest. If a nest is destroyed or abandoned before the eggs hatch, a hen will renest time and again, until she is successful or simply runs out of time, but a second brood is rare. The time required to lay a clutch of eggs, incubate them, and rear the young makes producing two broods in one summer next to impossible. If a hen were to start a clutch in early May, it would be August before she could begin again.