;D A friend of mine had some Cornix Quail and we'd hard boil the eggs and then take them to the local bar on Friday or Saturday night about 9 pm. Nothing funnier than a bunch of liquored up guys trying to peel little eggs. They were good tasting. Several times we'd pickle them with some Jalapeno juice to spice them up some. We did peel the eggs before pickeling.
my nieghbor is raising quail and planning to release them on my land this spring, i think he siad about forty of em. i have no idea how to go about managing quail...its more his thing lol but ill pick his brain for ya and post what i can find out. -cory
"Go ye to the wilds, to its waters and woods, for it is good to live thus." -Stanley S. Hawbaker
I hate to burst anyone's bubble here,but if you give any medicines to said fowl,they carry what ever illness they are being treated for. When said fowl mix with wild fowl it can and will kill the wild fowl by transfering the illness to them.
This was tryed with wild turkey and they changed to trapping wild turkey because it didn't work with pen raised birds. To go along with this pen raised birds have no suvival skills.
IMHO The only reason they don't do the same with pheasant,and quail is they would have to close season on them. They would have to bring in wild birds and give them time to build to a huntable flock. This will result in lost moneys to the DNR. do to the fact few would buy a small game licenses to hunt just rabbit and squirrle.
I'm talking about Ohio here,they have closed an area to try to reestablish snowshoe hare here. There are no wild pheasant or quail in most of the state. Hasn't been since the blissard of 78.
I only bring this up because people have tryed to turn loose quail in an area where turkey were in good numbers and the turkey numbers fell to the point few were seen for 4-5 years. they gave up with the quail and turkey numbers went back up. I always wondered why they did it, as quail hunting is closed in that area.
This is just food for thought, just MHO it will provide some hunting but the fox/coon and yotes will feast on most of them.
Quail hunting is closed in all but 16 counties in sw Ohio, where I belive the state stocked wild birds about 15 years ago in 2-3 counties. They seem to of taken as theres more counties than there was 15 years ago.
The state stocks pen raised phesant on state land just for hunting knowing they won't make it thru the winter.
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