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Thread: When do you drain your duck field?

  1. 02-05-2011, 05:37 PM #1
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    Default When do you drain your duck field?

    How long do you leave water on your "corn pond" / duck field after the season ends?
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  2. 02-05-2011, 05:43 PM #2
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    Typically we pull the riser boards within a week of the season ending. We feel it is bad practice that way, cause we wont catch the birds coming back north, but with a very wet soil, we have to start draining and fighting beavers immediately so that corn can be planted in May. This year will be a little different, we're going to keep a little water til the end of Feb because we're done with corn and going back to a full cover crop. We've lost our corn the last two years before flooding. Once due to cows, and once due to hogs. We've had lower numbers with more open water vs good numbers with hardly any open water. Only problem with a lot of cover is roosting though.

    Oh, and I never said we released, we dont, never have and never will. We do not condone it. I will kill a tamie and eat it the same though.....
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  3. 02-05-2011, 07:47 PM #3
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  4. 02-05-2011, 09:53 PM #4
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    I understood that corn pond owners left 'em full until the birds left...somethin they like to call 'imprinting'
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    Quote Originally Posted by OakNuts View Post
    I understood that corn pond owners left 'em full until the birds left...somethin they like to call 'imprinting'

    Oh boy, here we go again!
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  6. 02-05-2011, 10:10 PM #6
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    I "imprint" 50 lbs at the time...
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  7. 02-05-2011, 10:20 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Capt. Tom View Post
    Oh boy, here we go again!
    Guess I wasn't around the last time this was discussed? My apologies for breathing life back into the stick-beaten horse
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  8. 02-07-2011, 08:47 AM #8
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    We usually try to leave water in our greentrees for a few weeks after and in the upland impoundment til 1st week in march. Duckkiller, what full coverage crops are you talking about planting?
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  9. 02-07-2011, 10:05 AM #9
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    Island,
    We've had good success with Egyption Wheat, it is not really a food source, rather a good roosting crop. Egypt Wheat grows close to 8-10 feet tall, similar look to corn, and we thicken it up a bit. We'll throw in some Jap Millet, sourghum, and probably chufa in the right areas. I'll see if I can find a picture of it


    This before water was on it a couple seasons back


    Last edited by Duckkiller; 02-07-2011 at 10:12 AM. Reason: added pic
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    Quote Originally Posted by fro View Post
    I "imprint" 50 lbs at the time...
    thats right!
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    I leave mine in for a while. I have good drainage and can wait for the ducks to leave.
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    We just decided not to have water at all this year
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  13. 02-08-2011, 08:21 AM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by HuntinCosta View Post
    We just decided not to have water at all this year
    HAHA! Me too, or it wasn't our decision...
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    Ours are drained now. I'm trying to convince the boss man to leave it a little longer.
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  15. 02-08-2011, 11:35 AM #15
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    mine drained itself the whole season.
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    I'm with Costa and ndbrown213. One of ours never filled up - totally rain dependent. I ponder what kinds of ducks would have shown up with those cold snaps.

    We will drain the other one probably in about 3 weeks. Beavers will give us hell the whole time.
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    Watched a beaver cruising the pond, slapping his tail, this afternoon at dusk dark. We begin our annual fight with the beavers this Saturday.
    That the Tiger's roar may echo.....
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  19. 02-08-2011, 09:22 PM #19
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    The only times we've paid to have it planted were when we did corn, and we've lost it each time. The pic above we planted ourselves. Cant afford anything better. Truth has been told. It is what it is...
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