The mid-seventies winters, advances (?) in farming practices, machinery, chemicals, decline (if not outright ending) of trapping, have all contributed to all but elimination of a huntable population of quail in my area.
Years ago, I was told by DNR officials in both Kentucky and Indiana that the introduction of pen reared quail was a failure everywhere it had been tried.
Another theory was that the introduction of pen reared quail were carriers of disease that contributed to the demise of wild quail wherever the pen raised were released, either by well-meaning individuals or people working their dogs on the released birds.
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