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<blockquote data-quote="jakeman" data-source="post: 2252710" data-attributes="member: 10690"><p>If a pen raised quail is released into the wild, it's life expectancy is about 48 hours. The ODWC found this out a few decades ago down at Sandy Sanders. They released thousands just a few months before the season opened and not a single banded bird was harvested by hunters. Not one.</p><p></p><p>I drew out and hunted Packsaddle about 8 years in a row, and got to know the biologist out there pretty well during that time. That guy knew more about quail than anyone I ever met. He had to start using captured wild birds for his call back traps because the wild birds would kill the pen raised birds as soon as they got in the trap. </p><p></p><p>He told some great stories and related some very interesting things about quail and how they live. You had to turn in the crops, and unless the weather was just horrible, he very rarely found any food plot items in the crops. They hung around the plots, because of the edges they created, but they very rarely ever ate what was planted there.</p><p></p><p>He was very knowledgeable, and didn't mind sharing what he knew.</p><p></p><p>In short, releasing pen raised quail into the wild doesn't do anything except feed the predators. He did say you could relocate a wild covey, and they would do fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jakeman, post: 2252710, member: 10690"] If a pen raised quail is released into the wild, it's life expectancy is about 48 hours. The ODWC found this out a few decades ago down at Sandy Sanders. They released thousands just a few months before the season opened and not a single banded bird was harvested by hunters. Not one. I drew out and hunted Packsaddle about 8 years in a row, and got to know the biologist out there pretty well during that time. That guy knew more about quail than anyone I ever met. He had to start using captured wild birds for his call back traps because the wild birds would kill the pen raised birds as soon as they got in the trap. He told some great stories and related some very interesting things about quail and how they live. You had to turn in the crops, and unless the weather was just horrible, he very rarely found any food plot items in the crops. They hung around the plots, because of the edges they created, but they very rarely ever ate what was planted there. He was very knowledgeable, and didn't mind sharing what he knew. In short, releasing pen raised quail into the wild doesn't do anything except feed the predators. He did say you could relocate a wild covey, and they would do fine. [/QUOTE]
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