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Wild Ducks How to Rear and Shoot Them - W. Coape Oates
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Title: Wild Ducks
How to Rear and Shoot Them
Author: W. Coape Oates
Release Date: May 4, 2009 [EBook #28686]
Language: English
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WILD DUCKS
The Fleet at Flight time.
W.L. Colls. Ph. Sc.
WILD DUCKS
HOW TO REAR AND SHOOT
THEM
BY
CAPTAIN W. COAPE OATES
WITH 4 PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES FROM DRAWINGS
BY G.E. LODGE, AND 12 ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1905
All rights reserved
TO
MY WIFE
PREFACE
The main object of this book is to assist those who are anxious to rear wild ducks on economical lines. The Author is not without hope that the pages which it contains may even be of some use to old hands at the game.
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
SELECTION OF STOCK AND THEIR HOME
WILD DUCKS
CHAPTER I
SELECTION OF STOCK AND THEIR HOME
The first point to be decided by the would-be owner of wild-fowl is the locality where he intends to turn down his stock.
Wild-fowl can undoubtedly be reared far from any large piece of water, but I am strongly of opinion that birds do better on a good-sized stretch of water with a stream running into it and out of it. Given these advantages, the running water must be constantly bringing a fresh supply of food, especially after a fall of rain sufficiently heavy to cause a rise of water; further, if the stream which runs out of our lake empties itself into a large river, the latter will, when it floods or rises rapidly, cause our stream to back up and bring in a further supply of food from the main river.
Some morning the ducks are absent from their accustomed haunts, and if we walk up to the spot where the stream enters the lake, ten to one we shall find our birds there thoroughly enjoying some duck-weed or other food swept down by a rise in the water.
This supply of fresh food is a gratifying source of economy to the grain bill at the end of the year, and it is most fascinating to watch the birds standing on their heads
in their endeavours to reach this change of diet.
Another great advantage, too, is that a far higher percentage of fertile eggs will be obtained if the ducks have a large piece of water at their disposal.
Given these advantages, it is, however, most necessary for the birds to have some shelter near the lake, both as a protection against the weather and to serve as suitable nesting places.
Nothing, for instance, could be better than a stackyard or paddock in the vicinity of the water, and if the paddock is bounded by a flood bank or tall hedge, giving shelter from the prevailing wind, so much the better.
Ducks love to nest in stacks, and I have known a pinioned bird work her way up the side of a stack and make her nest fifteen feet from the ground. In stacks birds can burrow so deep that no weather, however inclement, can damage the eggs.
Outhouses too are very favourite places for ducks to lay in; also old stick heaps and the bottom of thick hedges. My main
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