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Posted on 1/9/26 at 10:51 am to Ol boy
There are so many factors that are affecting duck hunting in Louisiana. A lot are our fault and a lot aren’t.
For starters we have much less suitable habitat down here for ducks than ever before. Our marshes are continuing to erode and have the ability to hold less ducks than before every season.
Decrease rice acreage along with most rice fields doubling as crawfish ponds. The ponds are too deep and you have the boats chasing the ducks out every day.
Up north you have the issue of unlimited corn, open water due to reservoirs, and mild winters.
Less ducks due to poor habitat from droughts in the prairies and a constant decrease in prairies that are being tilled for corn.
On the mallard front: there is a direct correlation to dramatic increase in corn production due to rise of ethanol to a dramatic decrease of migrating mallards in Louisiana over the last 30 years.
My dad used to shoot limits of green heads consistently in the rice fields if gueydan and also whiteville in the 80’s and 90’s.
For starters we have much less suitable habitat down here for ducks than ever before. Our marshes are continuing to erode and have the ability to hold less ducks than before every season.
Decrease rice acreage along with most rice fields doubling as crawfish ponds. The ponds are too deep and you have the boats chasing the ducks out every day.
Up north you have the issue of unlimited corn, open water due to reservoirs, and mild winters.
Less ducks due to poor habitat from droughts in the prairies and a constant decrease in prairies that are being tilled for corn.
On the mallard front: there is a direct correlation to dramatic increase in corn production due to rise of ethanol to a dramatic decrease of migrating mallards in Louisiana over the last 30 years.
My dad used to shoot limits of green heads consistently in the rice fields if gueydan and also whiteville in the 80’s and 90’s.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 2:44 pm to LSUbub12
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Decrease rice acreage
From when
had 475k acres in 2025
From 1995-2000 avg 485k acres
Isn't much difference
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ponds are too deep
All those ponds up around whiteville and geese are full of ducks when they make it down here
All those specklebellies in Ark roost in deep water in all those irrigation resevoirs that have been built in the las 15 years there
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the boats chasing the ducks out every day.
maybe 5% of the acres are being run during duck season
I can drive around 10s of thousand of acres in south LA thats either plowed and flooded or that is rice stubble that has caught rainwater and see hardly any ducks - even when there are big groups of geese around
yall can blame La habitat all you want - but the facts are the ducks aren't making it here to even know if the habitat is good or not
Posted on 1/9/26 at 4:29 pm to Midtiger farm
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yall can blame La habitat all you want - but the facts are the ducks aren't making it here to even know if the habitat is good or not
I thought it was February when y’all’s ducks got there anyway?
Louisiana has way more ducks than the Ms delta. I want my senator to write a strongly worded letter stating the artificially flooded acres in Louisiana is stoping ducks from coming back up because y’all didn’t have enough water.
That actually happened a few years ago when y’all were in extreme drought. A lot birds had to come back up because the marsh was shite (I think yall even had an hurricane that destroyed what was good) and y'all didn’t have enough water caught because the drought. P.S. I am just playing devil’s advocate about this. I have never hunted Louisiana so I wouldn’t know how bad it actually is.
According to the to the last aerial surveys yall had way more “ducks” but we had more mallards. I think y'all even had more ducks than Arkansas had.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 5:12 pm to Outdoorreb
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I thought it was February when y’all’s ducks got there anyway?
Louisiana has way more ducks than the Ms delta. I want my senator to write a strongly worded letter stating the artificially flooded acres in Louisiana is stoping ducks from coming back up because y’all didn’t have enough water.
That actually happened a few years ago when y’all were in extreme drought. A lot birds had to come back up because the marsh was shite (I think yall even had an hurricane that destroyed what was good) and y'all didn’t have enough water caught because the drought. P.S. I am just playing devil’s advocate about this. I have never hunted Louisiana so I wouldn’t know how bad it actually is.
I'm not blaming flooded corn or any of that other stuff exept maybe the game farm dna problem. I think the ducks don't exist
LA had more ducks but Ark had more dabblers
Posted on 1/9/26 at 6:08 pm to jimjackandjose
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Animals dont migrate because cold.
They most certainly do. Some do not, most notably blue-winged teal, but a big Ole fat lazy mallard isn't flying from Saskatchewan to Louisiana simply because he feels like it.
I mean, is he going to fly south simply because it's 32 in Missouri? No. So if that's all you are suggesting, then you aren't suggesting much.
But the fact is, more typically comes with northern cold than just...cold. There's snow and ice that makes that food and water unavailable to them.
Maybe the corn is available longer and allows them to stay, but what are they coming to here if it's somehow banned? Sugarcane? They'll starve to death.
This is low-hanging fruit. Maybe it has an impact if it is banned, but it's a band-aid on a bullet hole.
Posted on 1/9/26 at 6:55 pm to Midtiger farm
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Hopefully you can see that data.
Ducks Unlimited is doing this research along with UTEP. I am sending samples in that we killed. We are also trapping and drawing blood samples after the season with MSU on this property.
Ducks Unlimited is doing this research along with UTEP. I am sending samples in that we killed. We are also trapping and drawing blood samples after the season with MSU on this property.
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