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Quick question… is this a sprig of switch. If so then we sure have a lot of it coming in! Let me know

They’re already starting to get some color on the chests. I could tell roosters from hens. Exciting stuff!

That’s half of what I ended up seeing in the grass. Just sprayed quinclorac on our switch fields to knock back the thistles and the foxtail. Hopefully that gives our switch a chance to jump.

Just was up to the farm today and saw another hen with 10 chicks this time! That’s 14 chicks from 2 hens. We had 6 total hens that we knew of in early May so I’m sure there’s another brood or two around somewhere. We just entered a 5 year contract to plant pollonator plots in the strips between...

I would definitely pursue some landowners about habitat improvements if you ever get the time! We gotta expand those sub populations so there’s enough that we can trap and transfer without all of the state to state….. pardon my French…. BS…..

Yes we are good friends of the central pa pheasants forever chapter. No help from pgc though.

Here’s a map of our property and what we’ve planted so far. Yellow is switch and light blue is a pollonator plot. Switch adds up to about 23 acres, and pollonator is just under 2 acres. The field just south of the pollonator plot is lowland fallow so switch should do pretty well in there. That’s...

This is a great idea and I’ve thought about it myself at our place. Build a 1 acre pen and keep 3 or 4 breeding pairs in it and let them hatch out their own. Sounds like a great idea if you can get it to work out.

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I too am rolling up my sleeves and getting my hands dirty. We have a farm in centre county at Woodward and we have a pocket of wild birds. Granted they weren’t there before we owned the property but thru an improvised soft release program and an absolute boat load of habitat improvement, I saw a...