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    Raising quail to release?

    As usual, it's the people who haven't tried that tell you it's impossible. I haven't been here for awhile, but just came back to say I just saw a mother quail with some chicks in my field. I haven't released any quail since May 2014 so this mother is either offspring of what I released or has...
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    My black copper marans have started laying like crazy, just put 40 eggs in the incubator.
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    Darn it - it looks like it was my dog... *New suspect*

    Sorry to hear that, dogs add so much to life. It's a bummer when they let you down.
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    Darn it - it looks like it was my dog... *New suspect*

    Campines have very sharp and thin spurs. I've always got a few too many roosters and they often fight especially in the spring until they get the pecking order settled. That was the only time I had a fatality like that though.
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    Darn it - it looks like it was my dog... *New suspect*

    I once had a Campine rooster put it's spur into another rooster's head, killed the other rooster almost immediately.
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    Bobwhite Quail can make excellent house pets.

    My birds do fine in extreme cold as long as they have enough food and sufficient numbers to keep warm.
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    Darn it - it looks like it was my dog... *New suspect*

    I lost a hen to a huge rough legged hawk about two weeks ago. I knew it wasn't one of the usual species I see, I had to look it up in a field guide. I moved the carcass out into the middle of the field and the thing came back and fed off it for a week. Maybe some northern raptors are coming...
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    Darn it - it looks like it was my dog... *New suspect*

    Game cameras are pretty cheap and fun to have.
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    Darn it - it looks like it was my dog... *New suspect*

    From my experience if it's a coyote, you never find the dead bird. Dogs mostly kill them and leave them, looking for more fun.
  10. Campine

    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    I love that catalog and I know what you mean, so many crazy choices.
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    Anyone in or near Brown County want some roosters? I've got at least 4 young roosters about 8 months old, I'd like to get rid of. They are brahma/wyandotte/sussex mixes
  12. Campine

    A great resource for bob white quail management or reintroduction.

    I bought a used one on Amazon for pretty cheap.
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    A great resource for bob white quail management or reintroduction.

    Absolutely, I did plantings and controlled burns for several years before I started reintroducing bob whites, and I even had decent habitat to begin with. I highly recommend Rosene's book " Bob White Quail" the amounts of factual data he collected of the years and across the country is amazing...
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    A great resource for bob white quail management or reintroduction.

    Just found this site while looking for an answer to another thread. http://www.naturalresources.msstate.edu/wildlife/northern-bobwhite-quail.asp
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    Bobwhites

    You guys got me interested, I've looked for about an hour on the internet and haven't found a good answer (although one internet expert says they can live up to 5 years in captivity ). What I did find amusing were the long winded replies to this question elsewhere online that never actually...
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    Bobwhite Quail can make excellent house pets.

    There is a book called "That quail, Robert" about a guy with a pet quail. Haven't read it ,but it's been recommended to me.
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    will pen raised quail breed and survive in the wild

    My area was depleted of bobwhite quail entirely. My area has decent habitat, but I've spent years improving it with different plantings and controlled burns. People who tell you it can't be done are just going by what they've read online.
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    will pen raised quail breed and survive in the wild

    Here's a video from the first year. I've since added silt fencing around the bottom edge and a hot wire about 3 foot high. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/705364/new-flight-cage Habitat is essential. I think that may be why some fail. Get Rosene's book, he tells you everything in a...
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    will pen raised quail breed and survive in the wild

    I have a large flight cage (15x40x15). I raise about 100 bob white each year. I keep them through the winter, collect eggs in the spring and release the mature chicks mid-spring. Then I incubate another 100 and start over. Last summer I saw three separate broods of a mother with chicks, so yes...
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    INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

    Would people be interested in a meet-up/swap meet/party in Brown county next summer?
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