PheasantWhisperer
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I've been into quail a few times this year already and I would say that 80 percent of the covies I have found have really young birds in them. And a couple of covies had a couple of big birds and the rest were all about 6 week old birds from my guesstimate. I have raised quail so have a good idea when aging them. I do find them every year but not to the extent that I have this year. Is this just a good late hatch in general? Or does this mean the early nests didn't work out and this is the 2nd or 3rd try? To be this young still the birds would have had to been hatched about mid to late September no?