Davis County Clipper | 1967-04-07 | Page 10 | Separate Chukar Partridge

r 1 Separate Ch ul ar Partridge Utah's partridge are arenow arenow arenow now the target of Department of ofFish ofFish ofFish Fish and Game matchmakers as game farm technicians separate their flocks nocks for the approaching mating season BROOD stock at the Departments Department's Springville Game Farm Is separated Into flocks of ofa ofa a few hundred birds each A ration of one rooster for each three hens is most efficient for Cor best egg production Extra males are banished to selected release sites In the Utah wilds Mated birds also get deported when they have supplied supplied sup sup- supplied plied their quota of fertile eggs for the waiting Incubators v which brood them 23 days until hatching hatching hatching hatch hatch- ing starts THE DEPARTMENT is conI continuing con con- continuing I work with several other I types of oC exotic game birds with i the aim of establishing useful I species in vacant niches of the I state I