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Show Chukar release scheduled early next week All chukar partridge brood stocks on the Price and Springville Spring-ville game farm wity be released re-leased early next week as final eggs in the 1962 quota to continue production of this game bird are taken. Quota for eggs to be taken this year at the two farms is 19,000. On the basis of past years' experience, some 15,000 or more young chukars will be brooded and raised from the egs. Further brood stocks of approximately 7,000 birds will be held until next year, while the balance of the young birds will be released during the coming fall months to further establish the chukar in Utah. Department spokesmen noted that many of the hatchery brood birds to be released next week will continue nesting activities ac-tivities after release and produce pro-duce birds in the wild. |