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Game management / bird rearing?
By: Dunteige Mallard Date: December 13, 2012, 5:02 pm
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Hi,
What about a section on the forum for bird rearing or shoot
management?
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Re: Game management / bird rearing?
By: Copey Date: December 13, 2012, 6:53 pm
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Sorted :)
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Re: Game management / bird rearing?
By: semiauto Date: December 14, 2012, 3:36 am
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Kevin do you rear your own mallard ? I'd be very interested in
hearin what it takes to have them ready for shootin, I've only
released young pheasants and partridge before, in my Fathers
club they're 1500 pheasants & 250 partridge most years, the
partridge are becomin more popular every year so I could see
then in the same numbers as pheasants soon.
semi
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Re: Game management / bird rearing?
By: john836 Date: December 14, 2012, 6:57 am
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Where can you get young Partridge or Pheasant to rear ? Maybe
even eggs as a i can put them in with clucking hens to hatch
them .....
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Re: Game management / bird rearing?
By: Dunteige Mallard Date: December 14, 2012, 1:14 pm
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Hi [quote author=semiauto link=topic=320.msg1644#msg1644
date=1355477804]
Kevin do you rear your own mallard ? I'd be very interested in
hearin what it takes to have them ready for shootin, I've only
released young pheasants and partridge before, in my Fathers
club they're 1500 pheasants & 250 partridge most years, the
partridge are becomin more popular every year so I could see
then in the same numbers as pheasants soon.
semi
[/quote]
Hi, I rear my mallard from day olds, ideally you need two ponds
to do it right, briefly they are reared under heat indoors
untill 7 or 8 weeks old when they are introducted to the water,
Then the work starts! you feed them farther away from their pond
each day once they are fed they will walk back to their pond.
Eventually after the ducks are 12-15 weeks old they will fly
back to their pond after feeding, this is were the second pond
is used one is for feeding and one is for rearing which the
ducks will relate to as their home. My two ponds are about 500
yards apart and during the shoots the guns are positioned
between the two ponds in the flight path of the ducks.
Rearing ducks to shoot is a lot different than pheasant or
partridge as ducks need to be walked for feeding everyday of the
week, at the same time each day, and you need to wear the same
coat, and use the same buckets for feeding etc etc. if there is
anything that spooks them they wont leave their home pond for
feeding.
This is very brief but it will give you an idea of whats
involved.
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Re: Game management / bird rearing?
By: semiauto Date: December 14, 2012, 1:18 pm
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cheers Kevin that's very interestin, do you even cut their wings
? I hear stories about ducks wings bein cut to keep them from
flyin away .
@ John, we get all our birds from Donegal - they are great
birds and the guy is great to deal with, Tayto get their dirds
there too, I'm sure you can get them closer to home.
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Re: Game management / bird rearing?
By: Dunteige Mallard Date: December 14, 2012, 1:26 pm
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If they are fed every day they will not fly away, i found this
year with the very poor wet weather in the summer that their
flight feathers were slow to develop leaving them flying three
weeks later than normal.
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