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anyone have a healthy population of quail on their farm?
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anyone have a healthy population of quail on their farm?
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I would be confident in saying that we have a top 10% quail density on our farm.

The key?? Habitat. If you want quail follow the guidelines of the cp 38 SAFE program. Do your mid contract management whether you decide to strip disk, burn or spray. Put in your covey headquarters (brush piles). Edge feather. Do all of that in great enough quantity and you should see a good resurgence in your population.
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We are seeing more and more each year without too much modification to habitat. For some reason, they are thriving there.
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I have 1-2 coveys on my 81 acres.. Good escape cover, leave some buffer cover between woods and crops; Native grasses/foxtails, briars etc.. I would see the covey about every evening hunt in the fall, they would come out of their escape cover/covey headquarters and make their way into the field. It was fun to watch, a couple times all hell broke lose when a hawk came after them. They would all flush back into their escape cover and then do their covey locate call about 10 minutes later;very neat to see... I got on the covey and picked a few off with the help of the pups too

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trapperBR549
We have good numbers. I think killing fescue had the biggest impact but it is hard to say for sure because I also do all the other stuff.
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the IL farm used to have some good numbers and good pheasant numbers! the biggest crp field was reintroduced to the crop rotation and the pheasants seemed to fall greatly. They still have the fence rows as well. I really have no idea if that was the reason....haven't seen a quail or pheasant for 10 years up there,
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PHhunter
I have 3 coveys on 70 acres. Usually 2 decent size coveys and one small. I have seen more quail paired up than ever before this summer and have seen two groups of little ones. I have very little fescue, quite a bit of disked ground, and several plum/brush thickets.
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Mailman
I have forgotten what one looks or sounds like its been so long.
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EZRA
I have sparatic good size cedars in the crp and I like to leave them, in the snow they always use them and stay hidden and safe
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callaojoe
I have right at 60 acres, and there are two decent coveys that I run into from time to time.

I don't hunt them, but do enjoy seeing them, and hearing them. Had the whole covey bunch up just under my tree stand a few years ago on an evening hunt. Pretty cool to watch.
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henry
I don't know . The more we did that should benefit quail the fewer we had. We were surrounded by a sea of fescue for so long I have heard it's possible genetic diversity disappears and they inbreed and disease issues eliminate them.
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The key to quail is having the needed habitats in a small area .HAVING THE NEEDED COMPONENTS CLOSE ENOUGH THAT COVEYS CAN UTILIZE THEM.
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PHhunter
They seems to hang out a lot in our showpig pen. Maybe everyone need to have a showpig
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PHhunter said:
They seems to hang out a lot in our showpig pen. Maybe everyone need to have a showpig
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Would it be safe to assume that they do that after the show pigs are gone? You know you could expand the show pig pen and run some ruff good quail Forbes thru the show pig planter to even enhance the show pig effect more.You could be the first at the next pig special food plot for quail mix.
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BackyardBandit
The cheapest and easiest way to be able to kill quail consistently is to go to a game farm and shoot a dozen and go back to deer hunting.
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