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re: Duck box day

Posted on 3/11/26 at 10:36 am to
Posted by Churchill
Member since Apr 2009
700 posts
Posted on 3/11/26 at 10:36 am to
Dang mexican tree ducks showed up yesterday. We have had boxes up on the property for well over fifty years and this year we have the smallest amount of woodducks I have ever seen. I sure hope these invaders are not out competing the natives.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
87293 posts
Posted on 3/11/26 at 11:00 am to
quote:

I sure hope these invaders are not out competing the natives.
I end up with both, but the black bellies have never pushed out my woodies, and they tend to nest after the first woody broods anyway.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
87293 posts
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:50 pm to
Brood #1 swam by this morning. Eleven little fuzz balls.
Posted by SilverPoon985
NE Pass / W Delta
Member since Jun 2025
98 posts
Posted on 4/2/26 at 2:23 pm to
That's awesome. Our Pond Mallards hatched out 13 fuzz balls a week ago. We made them the Hen Houses like Delta make for the prairie.

Have 11 more in our flight pen that are laying like crazy. Have 48 eggs in incubator and another 30 going in tonight. Then going to let the hens raise their own.
Posted by SilverPoon985
NE Pass / W Delta
Member since Jun 2025
98 posts
Posted on 4/2/26 at 2:24 pm to
Since the mallard hatched hers out of the Hen House the Squealers have already moved in and are laying.
Posted by KemoSabe65
70605
Member since Mar 2018
6954 posts
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:42 am to
Birth Rite citizenship?
Better call ICE Baw
Posted by highcotton2
Alabama
Member since Feb 2010
10500 posts
Posted on 4/3/26 at 12:36 pm to
Have not seen any little ones yet out my way.




Posted by plazadweller
South Georgia
Member since Jul 2011
12389 posts
Posted on 4/3/26 at 9:04 pm to
A guy that owed me a favor built ones from leftover western cedar he had at his house. Smells like an old barn
Posted by highcotton2
Alabama
Member since Feb 2010
10500 posts
Posted on 4/13/26 at 10:20 am to
Finally saw a few hatchlings this year.

Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
87293 posts
Posted on 4/19/26 at 9:27 am to
We now have three different broods following hens up and down the bayou. The duck/squirrel competition was real this morning.
Posted by highcotton2
Alabama
Member since Feb 2010
10500 posts
Posted on 4/19/26 at 12:39 pm to
Still waiting on the goose eggs.



And the mallard eggs.

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