Goosedragon,
It's all good, I just felt the need to post that so folks would know I wasnt some flunky just posting stuff, that I am quite experienced with all captive migratory waterfowl. I was getting a lot of negative replies toward all that as everyone seemed to be assuming I was one of those flunkies, no hard feeling at all.Lots of people on here know that because I post in all the wild duck threads I see, I hate to have to put my credentials in a post, but sometimes you have to.
I've been having a lot of heart trouble the past month and have been in and out of the hospital all week for test, so the ol nerves were just about shot when I did that last post!, LOL
oh, and The o.p., is forum talk for original poster, the person who asked the first question.
Chosen chickens,
You are right about getting instant results on forums, that does beat out articles, but with those articles, many many questions are answered in them in every aspect of keeping, housing, rearing, feeding, basically all points needed to care for these and many other types of high end fowl. Not that it ever hurts to ask a question, I personally enjoy answering them myself. The difference is, sometimes the forum people dont know what they are talking about but post it as the truth (got into a case of that on here a few weeks ago), the published articles are all done by seasoned pros, so you know what they are saying is correct.
destinduck,
It's good to know that there is another migratory duck keeper down this way. I have full intentions of getting all my birds back, like I dont have enough here now, 300 rare bantams, 70 or so wild turkeys, and 40 peacocks, I envy a $170 a month feed bill!! Mine is like $500.
Anyway, like I was saying, I'd like to get to know you cause I will in the next year or two be getting them all back. Gone be a big order. When I sold out I had around 1,000 birds on hand. We are back on my family farm now and have 130 acres to play with, so duck aviaries here we come... I assume you are out around Destin, I am near Valdosta, on the GA/FL line.
Stuff I would be interested in would be any teal, treeduck, mergansers, and goldeneye, cans, scaup, woodies and mandarins of course, bufflehead, smew,pochards,pintails widgeons, you know all the good stuff.
Another way I cut feed cost too, by the way, is in the winter, I take a grain trailer to the local gin and fill it up with corn and soybeans. This year it was $3 a bushel, 120 bushels saves me over 2 grand in winter feed. Take that a mix it about 50/50 with the bagged feed and you're good to go.
ha ha good luck when ya get them birds. if you get like me that ten or twenty extra dollars wont be crap when you have to feed em!(About 100 birds 100.00 amonth)
