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I don't know if DU is feeding or not in the north, but I do think they are part of the problem. They have created several refuges in the midwest, where they raise corn and leave it standing to be flooded. I have a friend in the midwest who has told me this. I have heard several rumors that DU is dumping corn, I don't know if this is true or not, but I have not seen anywhere were DU has denied this or offered an explanation. If this is true what can we do, as people will still pump millions of dollars to DU every year.

I have hunted plenty of times when winters have not been cold, and we still had ducks in the Delta. If DU is not the problem, maybe the U.S. Wildlife needs to recheck the way the estimate flyway numbers.

ALRIGHT, SCREW IT!

I'm gonna call em and ask if they are putting out corn on refuges. This could be true, but I find it hard to believe. Who knows? Maybe I will get a straight answer and maybe I won't.

again, as i tried to tell ya'll in an earlier post....while i was on sabitical in the midwest and canada, i saw several grain trucks w/ DU stickers on em...and if that didn't convince me that DU is feeding em i have an acquaintance who said that he has a friend whose third cousin's, uncle's, sister's, nephew on his mother's side who has a cousin twice removed said that he had a friend who had a DU hat on and had geese trying to land on his head...seriously...seems they thought he had an ear of corn under his hat...now, i am really convinced...gator

I got an answer from one of the conservation interns. She laughed and said that DU is not feeding ducks on refuges to keep them from migrating. The lady who I talked to is named Amanda. I won't give out he last name. She said feeding ducks and pond heating to keep ducks from migrating are just a few myths that keep popping up all over the place.

NOW that that has been said, lets look at what she actually said. "DU is not feeding ducks on refuges to keep them from migrating. Well, could they be feeding them to make sure they don't lose to much weight during the migration? Or, they have this new early broadcast method of planting corn. Or, experimenting with corn as a new type of road bed to cross wetlands. We all know that DU wants a good road on their land. Or maybe this "feeding" theory is just a big ole pile of shoveler breasts.

Who knows. It may be true and she just has the privilege of not knowing the truth.

Anyway we are right back where we started.---a big ole crappy duck season. Man-o-man, duck hunting sure is a lot like farming, live it up in the good times and fight to survive in the bad times.

that is most ridiculous thing i have ever heard -use common sense, if it gets cold enough a duck will move, always has always will !!!!!! - i'm sick of hearing this crap. If you believe it you have no brain

Whats wrong with a dump truck with a DU sticker on it. I saw one the other day at Malmaison a new War Eagle in the bed. He didn't have any trouble getting the boat in the water. Theys just good ole earth movers who like to duck hunt while they anin't got any work.

He had a hell of a time getting out of the greentree parking area.

Tell that dude who got attacked by the geese to take a bath and quit "goose tipping" at night. I'd attack your butt to if you kept knocking me over at night.

I seen one of them there black helicopters hearding the few ducks that escaped them corn feeding refuges back north just the other day. Can't believe my DU money is being used to by black helicopters to heard ducks.

no no, ya'll got it all wrong...i just heard from a friend of a friend who is one of the top dawgs in the CIA who is also a double agent for DU AND he said that DU bought the old star wars defense system, positioned it on the arkie/misery border and any duck that tries to fly south, gets zapped w/ just enough to turn em, and give em amnesia on the actual migration route so that they just short stop and feed in corn fields up there...sure sure, you may say that you have killed ducks this year and your right...my friend of a friend in the CIA says that they let enough through each year for the last two just so we will think that it will turn around but it really won't...DU does this so we'll keep putting money in their pockets but i'm smarter than that AND i have some insider info...i have decided that i will blow the lid off of there plan and tell everyone in hopes that all will quit duck hunting, start back deer hunting exclusively, and quit sending money to DU...this is fun, who else can we blame for things that don't go our way...cause it ain't my fault or just as simple as a bad run of luck...please, name more...gator...ps, i also heard that DU was introducing coyote, fox, and anything else that will eat eggs, and don't even get me started on what those villians at delta waterfowl are doing, it's too heinous to talk about

I didn't believe it either until a friend of mine went goose hunting in Illinois a few weeks ago and said he saw the truck dispensing corn and blowing a horn . He also said he could see plenty of ducks. Maybe they were ducks they were training for the Peabody???????????????//

MAKEMBLEED: Please don't take this the wrong way. I am not questioning the integrity of your statement about the truck dispensing corn, but I think the majority of folks on this site are starting to think these sightings have the same amount of truth to them as UFO's, Big Foots & Yhetties. If they are feeding these birds, then I would like to know the name of the landowner, the county and the approximate location and I'll personally call DU National and the Ill. Division and file a complaint. Please ask your buddy to research this if he can. If your buddy can get more details, I promise I'll make an issue out of it if there is an issue to be made.

BTW - I did see a huge wad of geese by the cotton gin in Morgan City following the tractors around this weekend. They were sub soiling for the spring. Damn birds were almost landing right behind the tractor. This turns up lots of good grub for them.

You know......I really don't care if DU, the USFWS, the Northern 1/2 of the Mississippi Flyway Council, Mothers Against Trent Lott, or Al Quaida is dumping, planting, or feeding corn with a silver spoon to every duck and goose in the Northern Hemisphere........'cause weather is what moves ducks and if those corn-fed ducks are REAL FAT when they get here, then that makes'em taste better and are more inclined to set their fat-laiden butts in my decoys as opposed to flyin' around up there stirrin'-up more inuendo's and hearsay and laughin' at all the finger-pointin' goin'-on down here.

This is the way I look at it.....ducks need food, water and protection from predators to survive. When they get heavily congregated in an area due to weather influences, they're gonna need a lot of food to sustain them during the next leg of their migration (if'n there's gonna BE one). The refuge system was established so waterfowl could have a safe place to rest and congregate so they CAN replenish their nutritional requirements, without being disturbed long enough for them to accomplish THAT. So what's the big deal if DU or anyone else provides a santuary with plenty of food, water and cover so the birds will survive and return to the breeding grounds in good shape.........to make more ducks? See how it works? DU doesn't develop these places to keep the birds from migrating, so we won't have a chance in Hell of killin' any!

Now, if you still believe that it's a 'plot to keep the birds outa the South, then I'll tell you how you can get a jump on the rest of the hunters next year.

Ya see, the weather's eventually going to be in our favor....(remember, that's one of the MAIN things that moves ducks)........so you wanna make sure you're ready for'em when they get here.........and we'll eventually get OUR chance at'em. Go to Wal-Mart tomorrow and buy the biggest YELLOW tarp you can find......buy 5 or 6 of'em and spread'em-out on the ground. Then take you a bunch of Flambeau decoys (endorsed by DU) and arrange them in the shape of the DU logo, on top of the tarp.......(this let's the ducks know it's O.K. to eat what appears [to them] to be a huge pile of corn....provided by DU).

If you REALLY want to kill some birds, place some more decoys in the shape of the letters 'D' and 'U'.......or if you have a lot of decoys, you can spell-out the phrase, "This Corn's for 'U'". The ducks will flock to this fake pile of corn, thinking that DU has finally moved it's operation to the SOUTH (to keep the yanks from killin'em ALL).

You oughta kill ALL the ducks in your county within a week, before THEY (or anyone else) catches-on. Then once they're all dead, you can go to surrounding counties or wait 'til the ducks that are still eating the REAL corn up North run outa food, so you can kill all o' THEM, TOO......and so-on , until they're ALL dead. And while you're at it.......lobby your congressman to push the allowable limit on wood ducks to "however many you got sittin' in your slough at the moment"...or ask them to have a 'conservation order' for Woodies.

If ducks become too 'tarp'-shy, then set your decoys in the pattern of 5 stars to let'em know it's a great place to eat.

In summary........Let'em feed the ducks for all I care .......the more, the better!

reverend...now there's an idea i haven't thought of...a yellow tarp, w/ the devil DU sticker on it...that's just gotta work...hell, anat, you outta put the tarp in a dump truck, i hear they like to land in those things...bwahahahahaha

Anat...that's hilarious.

Wonder of I could use some of my wife's home accessories in the set up...like those painted plaster cast vegetables. Is placing painted plaster cast vegetables out in a field considered a baiting violation?

Anit - be sure the most recent DU logo is on the tarp...they have grown wise to that trick!

Welldoggie - use the plastic veggies not plaster - they are lighter and you can carry more

Ballard County National Wildlife Refuge in Oscar Ky., They DO feed migratory birds on the refuge when SNOW covers the ground. I have hunted up there for 20 years. I have seen it with my own eyes. They have a truck with a hopper on it just like our catfish farmers and they ride the edge of a field and blow corn on top of the snow. They supposedly only use this practice when SNOW covers up thier food source. This is not DU this is the USFWS.