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Thanks again. We live near the mississippi river so i think they go there during the day and eat free all day and then roost on our pond at night. I guess there is no hope. The calls and muscovies will devour anything i put out instantly and the wild ducks never come close to our yards unless...

Thanks so much for the welcomes and information. To be more specific, if I raised some domestic woodies and/or mandarins, would they stay with the other domestic birds on the pond or would they "learn" to be wild from the wild ducks? BTW, we also have wild mexican tree ducks in there almost daily.

Hi everyone, just found this by googling "raising wood ducks". I live in south louisiana on a neighborhood pond. Pond is about 1600' x 300' with a long skinny (maybe 800'x20') island of trees in the middle. Currently there are domestic mallards and muscovies in our neighborhood. We have wild...