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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 
Western Oklahoma 1963 40 1:4 628 15.7 488 77.0 423 368 
Iranian 
pheasant Tennessee 1960 8 1:4 46 5.8 - 27 18 
(cont 'd.) 1961 14 1:5 139 9.2 ~ 79 59 
1962 43 1:4 257 5.6 “ ~ 115 78 | 
1963 56 1:4 479 8.6 241 50.3 167 133 
Virginia 1960 45 1:4 ~ ~ - - - 275 
1961 64 1:4 1107 16.8 929 77.9 724 540 
1962 75 1:4 2099 28,0 1616 77.0 1325 978 
1963 69 1:4 1858 26.9 1642 88.3 1122 898 
Western Alabama 1961 72 1:7 365 5.0 186 51.0 141 126 
Iranian 1962 62 1:4-1:5 1109 17.9 817 73.7 486 437 
ringneck 1963 50 15 1000 ~ - - - 420 
cross 
Lowa 1961 ~ - 75 - 52 69.3 35 35 
1962 10 1:10 225 22.5 165 60.0 150 125 
1963 none 
Kentucky 1961 42 1:4 2045 48.7 1147 77.1 906 745 
1962 36 1:6 1382 38.4 1161 84.6 877 686 
1963 54 1:6 2383 4A.1 2054 86.1 1567 1356 
Missouri 1960 24 1:8 1176 49.0 834 81.0 465 361 
Ohio 1960 24 ~ 810 33.7 714 91.1 (1) 690 - 
Oklahoma 1962 47 (F-=1) Ie 7 - “ - = 
7 (F-2) 1:7 303 43.3 253 83.5 
(1) Percentage based on eggs set in incubator, not on eggs laid. 
FOREIGN GAME INIRODUCTION PROGRAM 

