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Would someone be so kind as to indicate the costs involved in rearing mallard .I am told £28 per bird but i find this figure slightly high given i am not completely ignorant to the field.As much info as anyone is willing to supply as trying to persuade members this is a good idea will rest on the economics as much as the conservation aspect of any duck rearing projects.

your thanks in advance.

Allen.

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Would someone be so kind as to indicate the costs involved in rearing mallard .I am told £28 per bird but i find this figure slightly high given i am not completely ignorant to the field.As much info as anyone is willing to supply as trying to persuade members this is a good idea will rest on the economics as much as the conservation aspect of any duck rearing projects.

your thanks in advance.

Allen.

From eggs chicks,??.

About the same a pheasant mate,,But REMEMBER,Do raise them anywhere NEAR Pheasants..

Its a big no,no,..

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If you buy them in at 6week old the cost is about £5 per bird this price is based on our costs last year for 3000 pheasant and 1000 duck and is just for pellet and wheat plus the cost of the bird £3.50 we start in september on the duck so by october the number of duck is down a lot so this price would go up if you keep them longer but not to £28 .

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If you have water put a few call ducks on and feed it I up, barley in spin feeders and potatoes tipped near the margins. If you shoot every fortnight it should yield a decent bag.

Yes, it's surprising how many duck will flight into even a small pond that's fed regularly. I used to use old barley that had been lying around too long and chuck about 5lb a day into a shallow pond of less than 1/4 acre that we'd scraped out of a bit of low lying ground using a diverted ditch as the water source.

 

I'd start feeding about mid August, and it wouldn't take long before there'd be near a hundred a night coming into it. The key is not to over-shoot - once a fortnight- and to mske sure the pond stays fed. On that score, little and often seems to do better than too much at irregular intervals.

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