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what do the ducks eat where you hunt?
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:17 am
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:17 am
I keep reading these articles about widgeon grass and other vegetables that they like, but I never saw any grass in the swamps where I was hunting last season. Am I doing it wrong? Do they focus on submerged vegetation in south LA?
From what I understand, mallards and wood ducks like acorns as well, but I'm not sure about what else I should look for in flooded timber. Most of the land I hunted this year (or even considered hunting, all public) was flooded timber or salt marsh. Do ducks eat marsh grass?
From what I understand, mallards and wood ducks like acorns as well, but I'm not sure about what else I should look for in flooded timber. Most of the land I hunted this year (or even considered hunting, all public) was flooded timber or salt marsh. Do ducks eat marsh grass?
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Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:20 am to gorillacoco
corn
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:21 am to gorillacoco
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I never saw any grass in the swamps where I was hunting last season.
Did you see any ducks? If so, look under the water.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:22 am to gorillacoco
Most of the ones we kill at the camp are more so looking for a place to rest their weary bones than eat. Around the house they're coming to feast on whatever was planted in that particular field. Mainly beans and rice.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:23 am to Charter n Coke
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corn
And they will scoop up an acorn or two in the timber. Ducks I hunt are going to the timber more to rest and drink than feed.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:24 am to gorillacoco
Steel shot
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:26 am to INFIDEL
I've pulled whole pecans out of wood ducks and mallards. Freakin' amazing that they can get those things down their throats.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:28 am to INFIDEL
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Steel shot
Niceeee
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:29 am to INFIDEL
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Steel shot
or some form of shot anyway
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:29 am to nathannb22
Yeah I shot a woodduck last year that had 5 acorns in his throat. They need rocks or something hard to crush them similar to doves right?
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:36 am to nathannb22
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They need rocks or something hard to crush them similar to doves right?
Don't think so. Pretty sure a duck has the gizzards and stuff to digest things on their own.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:41 am to nathannb22
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Yeah I shot a woodduck last year that had 5 acorns in his throat. They need rocks or something hard to crush them similar to doves right?
I was wondering the same thing because I cleaned several this year that had a throat full of acorns.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:43 am to LSUballs
I'm not sure if they need sand or small gravels to digest food, but they will eat some as I think it makes digesting easier for them. That is why you see them on sand bars in the river from time to time.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:46 am to 34venture
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I'm not sure if they need sand or small gravels to digest food, but they will eat some as I think it makes digesting easier for them
I'd say that's right.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:49 am to gorillacoco
Whatever they can find in the fields. Rice mostly, or soybeans.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:52 am to Jim Rockford
Acorns mostly.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:53 am to LSUballs
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I'd say that's right.
Yeah they swallow gritty things, like sand, but not whole rocks or pebbles. If you have ever cleaned a gizzard, when you cut it in half all that gritty stuff is the sand and whatnot they swallow to help break down the food they eat.
Posted on 2/28/13 at 9:54 am to LSUballs
They have grit in their gizzards. That's why you kill geese on sand bars etc. This year they were feeding pretty heavy on snails. The divers were eating tubers mostly.
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