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Show number of birds that can be cared for through the winter at the farms. Mature chukars numbering near 6,313 birds were released this spring both before and following the egg taking period at the hatcheries. hat-cheries. Since the brood birds are released as soon as ample eggs are gathered to satisfy the needs for the continuing program, it is believed many continue to lay and will produce young broods in the wild this year. The 1956 releases of both mature ma-ture and young chukars brings the grand total to 48,998 birds released re-leased into the 70 sites in 25 counties. coun-ties. The department said final surveys sur-veys and counts of wild chukar broods will be made in early August Aug-ust following which recommendations recommenda-tions will be made upon which the Fish and Game Commission will determine whether the first limited lim-ited chukar hunts will be held this fall. Chukar Partridge ' Being Released Total 5500 Birds Young chukar partridge, totaling total-ing 5,600 eight week old birds, will be released into the wild during the next two weeks, the Utah Department De-partment of Fish and Game said today. They will be stocked as supplemental supple-mental birds into many of the seventy chosen areas over the state where chukar plants have been made during the six years since the department began the current program to establish this choice new upland game bird 'in Utah. These 5,600 young birds are a part of the 14,762 chukar chicks successfully incubated and hatched hatch-ed at the Price and Springville game bird farms this spring. Balance Bal-ance of the young birds will be held at the two farms until next spring for use as brood stock in 1957 and to plant as mature birds at that time. This is the maximum |