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mudsucker wrote:

day break wrote:70 found dead to date. 2,998 ducks left out of 3,068. .97772% survival rate. Ducks released on July 12th. Loss of 1.2 ducks per day. Many of the ducks have green heads now and are getting much more wary. ducks spending more time in the water and less time on the banks. obtaining 80% of food consumption from other sources. most all ducks flying well now. the cooler weather seems to be more to their liking. the new food to arrive Thursday. will post ingredients when available . have a good one!

How in the hell you you kill .2 of a duck? GH22 isn't even THAT good at his craft!

Hell I guess you pluck feathers cut toes and break wings man! LOL

When ya find this out let me know!

mudsucker wrote:

day break wrote:70 found dead to date. 2,998 ducks left out of 3,068. .97772% survival rate. Ducks released on July 12th. Loss of 1.2 ducks per day. Many of the ducks have green heads now and are getting much more wary. ducks spending more time in the water and less time on the banks. obtaining 80% of food consumption from other sources. most all ducks flying well now. the cooler weather seems to be more to their liking. the new food to arrive Thursday. will post ingredients when available . have a good one!

How in the hell you you kill .2 of a duck? GH22 isn't even THAT good at his craft!

Not to come to his defense at all, but it's simple math. It works out to losing 6 ducks every 5 days.

arduckslayer wrote:

mudsucker wrote:

day break wrote:70 found dead to date. 2,998 ducks left out of 3,068. .97772% survival rate. Ducks released on July 12th. Loss of 1.2 ducks per day. Many of the ducks have green heads now and are getting much more wary. ducks spending more time in the water and less time on the banks. obtaining 80% of food consumption from other sources. most all ducks flying well now. the cooler weather seems to be more to their liking. the new food to arrive Thursday. will post ingredients when available . have a good one!

How in the hell you you kill .2 of a duck? GH22 isn't even THAT good at his craft!

Not to come to his defense at all, but it's simple math. It works out to losing 6 ducks every 5 days.

pretty sure he was being sarcastic.

Come on, don't kill it. Only 17 more pages to catch Global Warming thread. There was a bunch of crap in that one too.

hdforester wrote:Come on, don't kill it. Only 17 more pages to catch Global Warming thread. There was a bunch of crap in that one too.

I quickly grew tired of the global warming thread though. This one has managed to keep me interested. I also believe this one reached 50 pages much quicker than the other one. I might be wrong. I am too lazy to go back and look Oh well, another post propelling us towards history

51 pages later and I think it's still the "stupidest thing I have ever heard"

Day Break, what is the main cause of casualties so far?

day break wrote:70 found dead to date. 2,998 ducks left out of 3,068. .97772% survival rate. Ducks released on July 12th. Loss of 1.2 ducks per day. Many of the ducks have green heads now and are getting much more wary. ducks spending more time in the water and less time on the banks. obtaining 80% of food consumption from other sources. most all ducks flying well now. the cooler weather seems to be more to their liking. the new food to arrive Thursday. will post ingredients when available . have a good one!

YOU CAN DO IT!

So do y'all count these ducks every day or do you just subtract only the dead ones that are found? How do you know something isn't dragging multiples way off and eating them?

duramax wrote:pretty sure he was being sarcastic.

Sorry, my bad.

edub20 wrote:So do y'all count these ducks every day or do you just subtract only the dead ones that are found? How do you know something isn't dragging multiples way off and eating them?

From the looks of his posts, they only subtract the ones they find, so I'm guessing his math is way off.

southernvaughan wrote:Day Break, what is the main cause of casualties so far?

two separate occasions took close to 40 ducks in the first 2 or 3 weeks. i would have to go back through the pages to find out exactly. Owls got to them one night and dogs the next time. other than that, it has been one or two at a time.

edub20 wrote:So do y'all count these ducks every day or do you just subtract only the dead ones that are found? How do you know something isn't dragging multiples way off and eating them?

all we can do is count the dead ones. there are most certainly more missing that we do not know about. when looking, it is rare to see more than a few hundred ducks at one time. the hired hand who does the feeding looks for the dead ones every day. it is important to get any dead animals (not just other ducks) away from the live ducks. the ducks are scattered over approximately 1 mile, sometimes more .

arduckslayer wrote:

mudsucker wrote:

day break wrote:70 found dead to date. 2,998 ducks left out of 3,068. .97772% survival rate. Ducks released on July 12th. Loss of 1.2 ducks per day. Many of the ducks have green heads now and are getting much more wary. ducks spending more time in the water and less time on the banks. obtaining 80% of food consumption from other sources. most all ducks flying well now. the cooler weather seems to be more to their liking. the new food to arrive Thursday. will post ingredients when available . have a good one!

How in the hell you you kill .2 of a duck? GH22 isn't even THAT good at his craft!

Not to come to his defense at all, but it's simple math. It works out to losing 6 ducks every 5 days.

correct. not trying to be funny. just mathematics.

arduckslayer wrote:

duramax wrote:pretty sure he was being sarcastic.

Sorry, my bad.

edub20 wrote:So do y'all count these ducks every day or do you just subtract only the dead ones that are found? How do you know something isn't dragging multiples way off and eating them?

From the looks of his posts, they only subtract the ones they find, so I'm guessing his math is way off.

you may be correct. however, early on when the ducks were much more vulnerable, the ducks were easier to track. as they scattered, their ability to evade predators increased. so while i most certainly believe there are dead ducks that were never found, i do not believe the numbers are large. when the ducks were delivered they were told that 85% survival rate was common. Survival is clearly higher than that #. probably above 95%. They were given 3,068 and paid for 3,000. 2% added to the numbers from the beginning by the ones delivering the ducks. only 4 ducks were lost in the transportation. 70 dead ducks found to date (including today).

day break wrote:

edub20 wrote:So do y'all count these ducks every day or do you just subtract only the dead ones that are found? How do you know something isn't dragging multiples way off and eating them?

all we can do is count the dead ones. there are most certainly more missing that we do not know about. when looking, it is rare to see more than a few hundred ducks at one time. the hired hand who does the feeding looks for the dead ones every day. it is important to get any dead animals (not just other ducks) away from the live ducks. the ducks are scattered over approximately 1 mile, sometimes more .

That's to keep the Temic kill-train from killing your ducks too, right?

day break wrote:

arduckslayer wrote:

duramax wrote:pretty sure he was being sarcastic.

Sorry, my bad.

edub20 wrote:So do y'all count these ducks every day or do you just subtract only the dead ones that are found? How do you know something isn't dragging multiples way off and eating them?

From the looks of his posts, they only subtract the ones they find, so I'm guessing his math is way off.

you may be correct. however, early on when the ducks were much more vulnerable, the ducks were easier to track. as they scattered, their ability to evade predators increased. so while i most certainly believe there are dead ducks that were never found, i do not believe the numbers are large. when the ducks were delivered they were told that 85% survival rate was common. Survival is clearly higher than that #. probably above 95%. They were given 3,068 and paid for 3,000. 2% added to the numbers from the beginning by the ones delivering the ducks. only 4 ducks were lost in the transportation. 70 dead ducks found to date (including today).

How can it be "clearly higher" when you have absolutely no idea how many ducks have been lost by your own admission?