. Quailology. The domestication, propagation, care & treatment of wild quail in confinement. Quails. HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGES QUAILOLOGY X-II the best suited, but the partridge is easily pleased and can practic- ally make its living anywhere. There are few birds which so strict- ly adhere to their once selected abode as do the Hungarian Part- ridge. Even their offspring do not winder away. This virtue es- pecially, together with the extreme hardiness, high prolificacy and other fine qualities make this bird the most ideal game bird known for stocking game parks and preserves The Hungarian Part
. Quailology. The domestication, propagation, care & treatment of wild quail in confinement. Quails. HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGES QUAILOLOGY X-II the best suited, but the partridge is easily pleased and can practic- ally make its living anywhere. There are few birds which so strict- ly adhere to their once selected abode as do the Hungarian Part- ridge. Even their offspring do not winder away. This virtue es- pecially, together with the extreme hardiness, high prolificacy and other fine qualities make this bird the most ideal game bird known for stocking game parks and preserves The Hungarian Partridge is very sociable, peaceful, affectionate and faithful to its mate and offspring, and even gladly adopts des titute young ones of its kind. The amity of the partridge is nicely illustrated by the following observation where a partridge hen and a pheasant hen were found setting side by side on a nest containing 9 pheasant eggs and 13 partridge eggs. The eggs were left for the partridge hen to hatch She good-naturedly took upon herself the task and afterwards faithfully reared the pheasants with her own flock. The partridges mate in pairs only and it is claimed that the mates remain always true to each other. -Toward the end of April or beginning of May the hen commences to lay. Her nest is usually a shallow hollow on the level ground. She lays from 9 to 17 eggs, which hatch in 26 days. The chicks are most charm- ing little creatures, very pretty in color and shading. They commence running about as soon as they leave the egg. Both .zHy .^--^; parents take eqaul part in the care and training of the young. The cock guards, warns and defends, while the hen leads, feeds and shelters them. If either one of the parents are killed the other will take care of the brood, the male even tak ing the place of the mother. It is due to this untiring care by the parent birds that nearly all of their young are reared and it does not take long to populate a whole district. During their earlie
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