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Wisconsin duck hunt looks promising
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife experts say ducks are healthy and abundant heading into the autumn hunt.
Department of Natural Resources migratory bird ecologist Kent Van Horn says the numbers are so plentiful that hunters can enjoy the maximum 60-day season allowed by federal regulations.
The duck hunt in the northern zone opens next Saturday and continues through Nov. 25.
In the southern zone, there’s a split season, with the first one opening Oct. 4 and running through Oct. 12. The season reopens again Oct. 18 and runs through Dec. 7.
Van Horn says the four most abundant ducks are mallards, wood ducks, green-winged teal and blue-winged teal. He says the breeding and brood rearing habitat in the state was good this year.
Sep 23, 2008 at 2:53 p.m.
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Sarah: You aint smelled nothing BAD,until you've smelt DUCK PI--. The big bucks people pay for Duck,if they knew,or maybe don't care,about the living conditions of these animals. It's a puppy mill ten times over!!
Sep 23, 2008 at 10:36 a.m.
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Woodsman: Aren't those the same characteristics noted at any animal mass-production operation? For example, chickens, turkeys, pigs?
Sep 22, 2008 at 10:56 p.m.
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BB~Gonna have to try that.
The duck I eat are wild ones that are flying around just before someone shoots them. Not held in a pen till someone releases them. At least I'm eating at the cost of a shotgun shell and not the price of the super market.
Sep 22, 2008 at 1:59 p.m.
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Yes: I agree on the open hunt for ducks & geese in our parks,all year,every day! You who like duck,you go right ahead. If you ever lived next to a duck farm,they stink,their pi-- stinks,they are kept in close contact with each other,flea,s crawling all over them,just plain nasty. Think of this,the next bite you take!!
Sep 22, 2008 at 9:21 a.m.
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Wild duck...Not a big fan of.
Sep 21, 2008 at 11:27 p.m.
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Poor ducks.
Sep 21, 2008 at 7:07 p.m.
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I agree with Gabby... there is nothing better than grilled duck ala orange wrapped in bacon and served with a couple slices of English Stilton and a nice cabernet sauvignon or merlot.
Sep 21, 2008 at 6:04 p.m.
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Open season on Ducks and Geese in Beloit and Janesville along the river and then give to food Pantries .
Sep 21, 2008 at 3:08 p.m.
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MMMMM....duck.....good eats!
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