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Originally Posted by southern151
Not too sure I buy into that surrogator. Predators, disease and natural selection take a lot of birds out. Also, when these birds are released, they no longer have those walls to protect them.
On average, if you buy 5 week old birds that have already been in a flight pen, 2 of 5 will not survive the first night. That's because they've never been exposed to "real" elements. Those that survive the first night have a good chance of making it on the predator aspect anyway.
If you want to get and keep a quail population, more of it has to do with weather and land management than anything. I.E., extremely wet springs are hard on the broods.
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Well what they say is that a bird is most vunerable to predation in the first 5 weeks of its life. so it will be in the surragator all that time. when u open it they fly out. and they say wherever a quail grew up (inside surragator) they usually stay pretty close to that area. but i dont know. i just love eating those little bastids. i might just raise some in my back yard.
