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FOREIGN GAME INTRODUCTION PROGRAM 
Table 2, Summary of Foreign Game Bird Propagation Results - 1960-1963 (continued) 


Number of 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 
Seesee Oklahoma 1960 10 1:2 43 4,3 33 76.7 28 25 
partridge 1961 11 1:2 100 Pa 68 68.0 67 65 
(Ammoperdix 1962 26 l:1-1:5 125 4.8 90 72.0 45 45 
grisgeogularis) 1963 20 1:1 151 7.5 111 73.6 85 76 
Utah 1961 20 L31 0 0 0 0 0 0 
1962 8 1:2 63 79 14 22.2 9 1 
1963 7 1:2 109 15.6 41 47.2 36 31 
Turkish California 1963 67 131 3705 55.3 “ ~ 1978 1547 
chukar 
partridge New Mexico 1962 (1) 70 1:1 1818 26.0 - - 1550 900 (2) 
(Alectoris 1963 12 flock 213 17.7 188 88.3 164 146 
graeca cypriotes and kurdestanica) 
Greek chukar California 1963 28 1:1 304 10.8 ~ - 225 183 
partridge 
(Alectoris graeca sp.) 
Barbary California 1963 97 we 2199 21.7 - - 1550 1254 
partridge (Game farm stock) 
(Alectoris barbara) 

(1) Substantial numbers of birds also raised in 1959-1961; record excellent but not reported. 
(2) Heavy loss from salmonella infection. 
