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Table 2, Summary of Foreign Game Bird Propagation Results - 1960-1963 (continued) 
Number o£ ; Total Average Number Number Number 
breeding How eggs per of eggs Percent of chicks of birds 
Species State Year hens Penned laid hen fertile fertile hatched raised | 
Bamboo Missouri 1960 11 1:1 381 34.6 305 80.1 . 208 200 
- partridge 1960 4 flock 30 7.5 25 83 .3 “ ~ 
(cont 'd.) 1961 21 1:1 347 (1) 14.7 242 (2) 86.1 172 143 
1962 14 Le 399) 289 (3) 75.0 88 (4) 50 
Same Hens 131 (5) 73) 338 37 (6) 37 
1962 19 I:1l (AQ 130. 6.8 103 ft 79.0 103 (6) 93 
1963 18 1:1 215 12.0 - - 154 105 
Oregon 1960 10 Bel 153 15.3 84 54.9 71 32 
1961 25 l¢gt 258 10.3 67 26.0 58 25 
1962 69 1:1 617 9.0 265 44.4 193 159 
flock 
1963 91 lek 2254241 323 eae: 236 45.1 - - 
Tennessee 1960 13 tel 146 11.2 - - 52 33 
1961 25 Ie lL 276 11.0 - ” 89 59 
1962 54 1:33 742 12.0 - - 267 172 
flock 
1963 141 133 2013 14.3. 1167 57.5 731 321 
Washington 1960 19 - 7 0.4 6 85.6 5 4 
1961 ar har - — - ad _ a 
1962 72 Led 1085 15.1 - - 275 & 240 
1963 136 1:1 3160 23.2 - 3369 936 462 
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(1) Only 281 eggs set. 
(2) Twelve hens incubated 39 late eggs in nests in the pens; of tnese 35 hatched, 
(3) Fertility based on number of eggs set, not on total production. 
(4) Incubated artificially. « 
(5) In line~connected pens. 
(6) Eggs were left in the pens to be incubated by the female bamboo partridge. 
(7) In isolated pens. 
