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Interesting finding / sighting today.
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03/13/17 01:35 AM
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pharmvet
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Back in October I used several pen raised flight conditioned birds to mess with my pups. Today, the kids and I were walking around across the creek where I had turned the birds out. The kids saw one walking around. My wife got a picture of it. The kids got within about 3 feet of it before it flew. 2 or 3 others then flew from nearby. I know that pen raised birds cannot substitute for wild quail, but these 3 or 4 have survived for the last 5 months. How I will never know.
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Re: Interesting finding / sighting today.
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03/13/17 02:30 AM
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bobcat1
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That's awesome!. They will make it for a while... who knows maybe a long while.
Bobby Barnett
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Re: Interesting finding / sighting today.
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03/13/17 01:01 PM
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bill oxner
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I know of that happening to my pen raised just once over the years. There were two separate clutches at the entrance of my subdivision across from the pasture where I kept my Johnny house. Both clutches were led by a rooster.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Interesting finding / sighting today.
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03/13/17 06:22 PM
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reeltexan
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I've found them on our place the next summer with chicks in tow.
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." Ronald Reagan
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Re: Interesting finding / sighting today.
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03/13/17 08:12 PM
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pharmvet
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Any chance the chicks will have more "wild" instincts?
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Re: Interesting finding / sighting today.
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03/13/17 10:17 PM
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bill oxner
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I only saw them one year. There were several wild coveys south of here.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Interesting finding / sighting today.
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03/14/17 02:39 PM
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It just depends on how many critters you have out there trying to eat them. On my land a dozen birds lasted all summer. Then one day I noticed a pair of Hawks gliding my valley. Then my dog started finding piles of feathers..no birds:(
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