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 
Eastern _ Tennessee 1961 220 1:5 10900 49.5 - - 7365 5826 
Iranian 1962 60 1:6 2582 43.0 - - 1434 1144 
ringneck 1963 50 1:5 1010 20.2 829 82.1 703 535 
cross 
(cont'd.) (Persicus 3/4 
x ringneck 1/4)1962 60 1:6 2399 40.0 ~ - 1142 894 
(netatious “1/4 1963 discontinued 
x ringneck 3/4)1962 166 1:6 3042 46.0 - - 2189 1934 
1963 discontinued 
Virginia 1960 45 120 - - - - - 1203 
va 1961 30 1s 1815 60.5 1393 —676.8 1218 907 
1962 35 1:35 2170 62.0 1714 79.0 1422 973 
1963 34 ie 5 1379 40.6 1007 73,0 820 689 
Western and Ohio 1960 160 1:;4-1:8 2244 14.0 1885 87.7 L751 1000 2 
Eastern 1961 284 flock S325 Litas? 2557 88.6 (1) 2185 1041 
’ Iranian, 
Ohio ringneck cross 
A RD 
Japanese green Illinois 1962 96 1:7 poor - - ~ - 150 
pheasant 1963 75 LPs poor 7.0 250 40.0 230 200 
(Phasianus 
colchicus Kentucky 1962 30 flock 128 4.3 104 81.3 54 
robustipes) 1963 75 - ~ a an - bs =, 
Maryland 1963 15 ~ - - - ~ : a 
(1) Percentage based on eggs set in incubator, not on eggs laid. 

