I spent more than two decades learning that almost all the experts had about ten percent of the knowledge they thought they had. Various attempts to establish viable wild quail population each failed in succession. One variable that I never had a chance of controlling was predators due to strict regulations. But even if I had removed all of them, which is impossible, the end result would have still been failure.
Still I enjoyed most of the experience and did manage to keep quail going in hunt-able numbers for two generations of dogs. When my last dog died my interest died with her. Am sure many know what I mean as the pleasure of a dog working was something that I enjoyed almost as much as anything other than seeing those marshmallow size baby quail for the first time. Perhaps I should have been interested in raising collie size deer or Johnson grass as there seems to be an abundance of both in too many areas these days. Quail are just about a memory these days.
