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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1200212" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>They might but odds are you will do more harm than good. You have something wrong on your place and until you fix it adding more birds will not help.</p><p></p><p>I actually know a little about quail management. Releasing them is just feeding the critters a high priced diet. Quail like diversity. Grown up fence rows and everything that you as cattleman probably hate to see because it makes your place look ill kept. Feeders are one of the worse things you can use because it patterns the predators to the birds. If you want to increase your birds you need to do little things like letting a field grow up in weeds then mowing about a 100' of it then turning the mower off and travelling about 200' and mow another 100'. You repeat this and alternate this with time as the weeds and brush grows back. This gives maximum diversity and makes plants grow at different stages. </p><p></p><p>This is just one of the small things you can do to help the birds out but its these small things that you have to consciously do to make the habitat the birds need to raise and survive the predators. I implemented these small practices on a farm several years ago and the state biologist estimated I had a bird per acre which made for some wonderful hunting. But managing wild bird population is more of a conscious effort on your part. Most people would look at your place and think you are some lazy azz because your fence lines aren't clean and you have briars and bramble patches scattered all over the place. Good quail habitat isn't pretty....unless you know what you are looking at.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1200212, member: 4362"] They might but odds are you will do more harm than good. You have something wrong on your place and until you fix it adding more birds will not help. I actually know a little about quail management. Releasing them is just feeding the critters a high priced diet. Quail like diversity. Grown up fence rows and everything that you as cattleman probably hate to see because it makes your place look ill kept. Feeders are one of the worse things you can use because it patterns the predators to the birds. If you want to increase your birds you need to do little things like letting a field grow up in weeds then mowing about a 100' of it then turning the mower off and travelling about 200' and mow another 100'. You repeat this and alternate this with time as the weeds and brush grows back. This gives maximum diversity and makes plants grow at different stages. This is just one of the small things you can do to help the birds out but its these small things that you have to consciously do to make the habitat the birds need to raise and survive the predators. I implemented these small practices on a farm several years ago and the state biologist estimated I had a bird per acre which made for some wonderful hunting. But managing wild bird population is more of a conscious effort on your part. Most people would look at your place and think you are some lazy azz because your fence lines aren't clean and you have briars and bramble patches scattered all over the place. Good quail habitat isn't pretty....unless you know what you are looking at. [/QUOTE]
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