Thank you Sir, I hope my hard work will help put a few quail back into the hill country. I do enjoy listening to them in the mornings and evenings.

Need Advise positive or not. I have several pens of quail I have raised from eggs. I am planning to start releasing them onto the ranch, they are flight ready and already a year old. I have done my best on predator control and will begin my release very close to my pens so the penned quail can communicate with the released quail so maybe they wont travel to far at first. I have great habitat for the birds and plenty of water. What will my survival rate be on my pen raised birds. I will not be hunting them just trying to build up a population on the ranch. I am hatching chicks as we speak and will continue to release as many as 30/40 pair at a time as they become able to fly. I just wanted to wait till I had mature birds before I started to release.

Do you think once I start turning the birds out it might be a good idea to have someone come out with dogs to have the birds become more alert to predators by jumping them up a few times.