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<blockquote data-quote="stocky" data-source="post: 499235" data-attributes="member: 1150"><p>We used to have from 50-70 different coveys on our farms in any given year and same with all the neighbors. My Dad and then myself hunted quail all our lives. If you didnt get up 15 coveys in a day, you hadnt had a very good day. Now, there might be a half dozen coveys. We used to have lespedeza and sage grass. Now we have fescue. We used to put out 100 acres of cane every year for the cows to winter on. Terrible cow feed, but it kept them alive and it was great for quail. Now no one kills the raccoons and other varmints so they destroy quail nests. We have lots of turkeys and the conservation dept says they eat the quail eggs and kill the chicks. There are feral cats everywhere and bobcats have gotten thick. Lots of farms were busted up and turned into houses. We have had bad droughts which reduced the cover. Used to, everyone would kill every hawk they saw. Now almost no one kills them and they make it hard on quail with the droughts we have had that thinned the cover. It has been several years since I have shot into a covey of quail. I love to eat them, but there are so few, I hate to kill one. If there are 5 or 6 coveys on 40 acres and the majority of birds in a covey get killed, the others will mix in with another covey. If there is one covey on 40 acres, and something kills most of them, there is no covey for them to join. The conservation department claims it takes a minimum of 5 birds to covey up to stay warm and not freeze and die, I am sure it is more in colder climates than here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stocky, post: 499235, member: 1150"] We used to have from 50-70 different coveys on our farms in any given year and same with all the neighbors. My Dad and then myself hunted quail all our lives. If you didnt get up 15 coveys in a day, you hadnt had a very good day. Now, there might be a half dozen coveys. We used to have lespedeza and sage grass. Now we have fescue. We used to put out 100 acres of cane every year for the cows to winter on. Terrible cow feed, but it kept them alive and it was great for quail. Now no one kills the raccoons and other varmints so they destroy quail nests. We have lots of turkeys and the conservation dept says they eat the quail eggs and kill the chicks. There are feral cats everywhere and bobcats have gotten thick. Lots of farms were busted up and turned into houses. We have had bad droughts which reduced the cover. Used to, everyone would kill every hawk they saw. Now almost no one kills them and they make it hard on quail with the droughts we have had that thinned the cover. It has been several years since I have shot into a covey of quail. I love to eat them, but there are so few, I hate to kill one. If there are 5 or 6 coveys on 40 acres and the majority of birds in a covey get killed, the others will mix in with another covey. If there is one covey on 40 acres, and something kills most of them, there is no covey for them to join. The conservation department claims it takes a minimum of 5 birds to covey up to stay warm and not freeze and die, I am sure it is more in colder climates than here. [/QUOTE]
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