If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, how much would thousands of quails be worth? The McDaniel’s Quail Farm raises more than 25,000 bobwhite quails each year. “I am a bird hunter and it ...

Hunters have shot at the U.S.’s domestic quail species, the bobwhite, for centuries. But populations started dwindling in the early 20th century and nearly disappeared in some regions of the country.