While it’s not that easy but it can be done. Years ago I decided I wanted to stock some Chukars on the ranch and bought 100 breeding pairs and released them in groups of 10. Within just a few weeks they were all dead due to predators, since they were pen raised they didn’t know what a fox, bobcat, coyote or a hawk was. I built some large flight pens by the ranch house and brought in another 100 pair. I keep the varmint population pretty slim around the ranch house except for some barn cat’s. After they nested and the young were able to fly I started letting out a few at a time. Yes the cat’s got a few as well as the hawk’s but the others were able to see what happen since they stayed close to the pens. Within a month they started moving away from the ranch house and I kept releasing until they were all out. That was about 12 years ago and we now have a thriving population of chukars that have expande several miles away from the house and growing. The big ranch is 32 square miles and we do not allow any hunting other than family so they were off limits and safe. I’m seeing covey’s of 25 and 30 birds 3 and 4 miles away from the house now. So it can be done but it takes a little more than just releasing pen raised birds.
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