The Migratory/Ornamental Waterfowl INFO Thread

[kangababy]

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Found you some. These guys are getting tuff to come across too arent they!
I dont know this guy or anything about him. But he's the only one I saw 2010 listings for garganeys on all the sites and publications I looked at. Didnt have a price on them, mine were $120 a pr back in the day, so I would expect them to be in that ball park still
Dieter Siewert
[email protected] or
www.dietersdivers.com

I am getting some birds from him this yeat and Mark knows him if that helps!
I don't remember that being on his list that he sent me though

 

[destinduck]

Thanks just got off the phone with him none for sale this year .He said he is keeping his babies this year lonnie has em too but maybe next year

 

[kangababy]

destinduck

seeing your pictures makes me want some Harlequins!!
I sure dont need to add anything else this year!

 

[destinduck]

thanks I found em just cant afford em right now 2000 a pr. The baikals ,white woodies and red breasted are all I can get this year or my wife will kill me

saw your byc page awesome pen. I love it!!!! Thats what I have to build (concrete pond) still doing kiddie pools 13 total,dump every 3 days, its killin me ha ha .hopefully ill get it done by next month. I wish I lived in the country so I could have a setup like yours. keep up the good work

 

[kangababy]

Thanks Destin Duck! at that price I for sure won't be adding them!

Didn't know they were that much!!


1)For a large pen out there (see mineon my page) does anyone have a suggestion on a feeder? Right now we have just some flat pans laying around in the pen and this seems to work fine but our current small pen (16x24ish) is totally covvered (tin roof) where this new pen will only have a net over it.

2)Next does anyone know of anyone that build nesting boxes at a reasonable price... I just figured out that for the birds I will have in there I am going to need somewhere in the rangd of 80 boxes 1/2 and 1.2 on ground and hanging.. I should start building now!

3)with some of the breeds I have I want to put some kind of shelter in there for them.. suggestions? my dad is thinking about building dog houses for them! he ahs a friend who has given him lots of Cherry Wood that he wants to bulding something with! Suggestions would be great! I just want them to have some kind of cover becsides the nesting boxes to get in just in case we get a dusting of snow.. LOL it rarely ever snows here but I could see it coming a flood of snow this year.

The breeds I will have.. Mandarins, Woodies, Ring teal, Greenwing teal, silver teal, marbled teal, hooded Mergansers, Ruddies, White face tree ducks, pintails, bahama pintails (which I just found out are names white faces pintails on the Ducks Unlimited site) and Canvasback possible Barrow's Goldeye..seems like I am forgetting someone


I am getting too excited about teh completion of the pen.. Pictures to come by Oct 9th... We have to be done by then

 

[KansasKid]

Ok so i have a question kangababy, Do you keep all those in the same enclosure or is it divided.

 

[kangababy]

They are all going to be in the same pen. We are just about finished with it... It is 125x75 with about 1/2 of water.

 

[KansasKid]

ya ya i know rub it in my face mine is only 16x36

haha

 

[kangababy]

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oh sorry!! Yeah I will have up to maybe 150 ducks of all breeds in the pen. I know there are some like the cinnamon teal I can't have because they will cross breed so eventually there are more pens to come that will be smaller.. Our next pen will be strictly to holdbabies and be 1/4 the size of thisonebut we won't even consider starting it until march or later. We have their current pen to drain and fix which will be more of a core than building a new one. It has had years of abuse from raising 100+ mallards a year.. It might become my next quail pen actually

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

you're not going to have to worry about a lot of that,
shelters? They'll never use them, unless you get VERY cold where you are at, only the treeducks will be at winter risk. As for going into shelters on their own, forget that, they wont.

Cinnamon teal?, boy get them, they are not going to cross as long as everything is paired up. I know it's possible, but it's possible with a lot of stuff, I had 20 some odd pairs of them all in mixed collections, never had a single cross out of them, northern pintails were the worst for me, and had a red head wood duck once, but outside of that, never had many crosses at all.

Harlequins at $2000! That's a steal, they use to be $5000 and only 1 breeder with them (Schouten I mentioned earlier)

As for the boxes, building them on your own will be the way to go, only seen a few people selling them over the years and their prices were crazy, like $100 a box, only cost $15- $20 in materials tops. I actually had one I call ed the condo. It was a full 4x8 sheet of plywood divided into 16 boxes all in one, 2 rows of 8 boxes. laid the 8 foot way.
They would use every box in it.
For the ground nesters, I always used plants and longs and such, only had a few actual ground boxes, so you may be able to just get away with doing that.

For the feed pan, that's all I ever did, just a pan on the ground, a few feet away from the water to keep them from making a mess in it. Put a water dish by the feed for them to wash it down with and your ponds will stay cleaner longer. You can build a small shelter, 4 poles and a roof over it to keep rain off it.

Oh and if you get technical about it Bahamas are "properly" called white cheeked pintails.


Destin, those red breasted you mentioned, you getting the mergansers we talked about once??? I'm jealous if so!! ,LOL