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Morning all hope your all keeping well and enjoying the season so far

As a newbie I was wandering if I could pick your brains on flight ponds, on my land there is a small pond that this year the mallards have really taken to, and have been feeding off the much heap in the same field.

I have started putting some barley down next to the pond ( ( about 20kg bag )

How often should I keep feeding the pond? And how long should i expect them to hang around?

 

 

Cheers rob

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They are obviously finding food there anyway but a bit more will not hurt. Learned from my mistakes and found that if you do feed and then miss a week or so due to a vacation, they will bug off somewhere else. Have someone cover this. Done it a number of ways , from tipping in a half ton load, to sprinkling round the shallows ...consistency with ducks is all important. Nothing really beats that SSSS SSS sound of wing beats in the darkening gloom of an evening as ducks circle before dropping in. Makes the hair stand on end.

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You only need to feed every night if all of the grain is getting eaten. One of the ponds that I feed, there is often enough to keep the ducks going for two to three days if I put the correct amount in. They will forage hard for those last bits of grain that may have been stamped into soft mud etc.

I try to spread the wheat as much as possible, so that they have to work for the food a bit.

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Evening guys cheers for the replys

I have started spreading the barley around as I was putting it into piles and I think the crows took most of it, the ducks seem to be holding well so far and I doubt I'll shoot it until the new year.

 

Do normal feeders next to the pond work ok or do ducks. It take to them?

 

Cheers rob

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Evening guys cheers for the replys

I have started spreading the barley around as I was putting it into piles and I think the crows took most of it, the ducks seem to be holding well so far and I doubt I'll shoot it until the new year.

 

Do normal feeders next to the pond work ok or do ducks. It take to them?

 

Cheers rob

 

As others have said, feed in the shallows. The crows can't get at it then!

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