I used to have a neighbor who’s 200 acres joined one of our farms. He had one covey and we shared one. I would hunt them a couple of times each year. One day we were talking about the quail and he said that there used to be 10 coveys on just his farm. He wondered what had changed. We talked about how the land had been used and the fences.
He said it had been a dairy farm. He had fields of Lespedeza, milo, corn and alfalfa. His fence rows were grown up. Now it had been changed to beef production with clean barbed wire fence rows and fescue pastures. He went from a lot of food and cover to no food and one brushy draw.