Table 4 -- Some results of breeding experiments with Spanish 
red-legged partridges at the Colorado State game farm- 1952-1954. 


= Eggs collected Young birds 
Year No. of breeders Fertile Infertile Hatched Raised 
1952 21 0 8 0 0. 
1953 24 9 0 8 8 
1954 40 14 0 12 12 
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There are a number of private game breeders in the United States 
who have successfully raised small numbers of French red-legged partridges 
in captivity utilizing hand-reared birds’ as breeding stock. Up to the 
present, however, too few birds, fresh from the wild, have been available 
and interest in the propagation of this species has not been sufficient 
to encourage any large scale attempts at artificial propagation. 
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