Nershi wrote: Bottom line is hen houses are not a practical way to increase duck production in the long run. It's only benefit is making people feel warm and fuzzy after putting them up.
Trigger wrote:Fowler, How many ducks would 100,000 structures add to the fall flight? If 80,000 are used. 10 eggs each, 800,000 ducklings, 50% survival rate gives you 400,000 more ducks. That's .08% added to the population with impossible succes rates.... yeah, thats a difference maker. Just saying.
Bullet21XD wrote:Hen deathboxes are great! If every duckhunter put out ten...we'd have hundreds more ducks every fall. Keep up the good work!
h2ofwlr wrote:Trigger wrote:Fowler, How many ducks would 100,000 structures add to the fall flight? If 80,000 are used. 10 eggs each, 800,000 ducklings, 50% survival rate gives you 400,000 more ducks. That's .08% added to the population with impossible succes rates.... yeah, thats a difference maker. Just saying.
Well as usual you numbers are off, which is no surprise really....
800k eggs with 30% to fledged stage = 240K I wish that they did achieve 50%!
At current Mallard pop that 240K is about 2%, not .08%. And if LTA pop is used it is about 3% added to their population.
2015 Mallard Numbers
2015: 11.643 million. +7% change from last year
2014: 10.900 million
Mallard are +51% over the long term average.
lumbertick wrote:My problem with "feel good" projects are that they fuel complacency. It makes most participants feel like they are doing enough. I have been at few of the "death box" building activities and never once was the fact stated that the project is a good start but much more needs to be done in the form of permanent habitat restoration. In fact I'll bet that of all the boxes that get built...few ever get hung up and even fewer maintained. I always left feeling that it was just a waste of good lumber.
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