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If you cane them hard enough they lose the will to fight back. This comes in handy when you are putting it on hooks.

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Only if the corn is from Singapore.

I have a similar problem. The pigeons have taken over a boathouse we have on the gulf coast. I don't have a high powered pellet gun but I am thinking I need to get one. I shot 4 of them with my son's Red Rider before I actually dropped one. It didn't kill him but he fell and then a swift hit with the stock of the RR took him out. I would prefer to poison them so I could have a mass kill. I guess I need to look into that as well.

This might be your solution..




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I would prefer to poison them so I could have a mass kill. I guess I need to look into that as well.

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Seriously? You might want to think about the possible negative consequences and the liability you might have, before acting on that thought.

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No movement yet. I'm working on the HOA members.

Last time I had to deal with a HOA duck issue, it seemed half the HOA had connections to the Bass family, the other half were connected to the Hunts. Everyone seemed to know some TPWD commissioner, I swear every other person wad an attorney of some nature, and all were threatening legal action against each other. The funny part, the duck lovers in particular, didn't realize how small the world of wildlife biologists and wetland specialists really is. They kept going around looking for someone to counter my recommendations, without mentioning my name specifically, on at least 3 occassions the person/biologist they were trying to get recommendations from referred them back to me (needless to say they got pissed). I know all the related wildlife biologists in the area. Boiled down, everyone they tried I had either consulted with while putting together their management plan (I knew going in that this would be a political hot button issue--and royally tied me up for 6 months) and made sure I was rock solid on my recommendations, or I had trained the biologist in question. So, the next day I would get a call to the effect of "he didn't you call be about 3 months ago about XYZ?".

Ahhh, the fun of dealing with HOAs.

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How the hell is he going to legally get a sedative? And dispensing out to the local duck population wouldn't be legal either.

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I wonder if fermented corn might work. Get them drunk.

Auto correct on mobile is tough but you guys can get brutal

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I was one of the few who spoke up and said it was a total waste of money because ducks fly.

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They also float

Bump.

Shot any ducks lately Finn?

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Shot any ducks lately Finn?

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Who's asking?

I have noticed a much reduced duck population recently though.

Some fool that lives across the street from the lake feeds them every day even though the HOA has forbade the practice. Some of the ladies put up hand made signs asking people to slow down for the ducks.

Finn bring them over to the kingwood duck pond, I think the local Chinese restaurant has decimated their population

Just drudging up some good ole OB fun. Anythings gotta be better than talking about pokemon, canibals in Africa, and the murder of cops.

This is much more pleasant than the other items I see on the first page. FYI, I will forever associate your username with the giggles this thread gives me.

Might I suggest:

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Anythings gotta be better than talking about pokemon, canibals in Africa, and the murder of cops.

This is much more pleasant than the other items I see on the first page.

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Just drudging up some good ole OB fun. Anythings gotta be better than talking about pokemon, canibals in Africa, and the murder of cops.

This is much more pleasant than the other items I see on the first page. FYI, I will forever associate your username with the giggles this thread gives me.

Might I suggest:

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In all seriousness the HOA would not allow the whacking of ducks with high-powered pellet guns. They did however retain the services of a gentleman to remove a decent number of them.

So while we still have too many ducks their numbers have been reduced a good bit.

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I like where your head is at but there would be real concerns about shots carrying through/past a duck and causing harm to people and property.

Worst you're gonna get with a pellet gun is a busted window.

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This. A .22 can ricochet off of water and travel a looong way. Better off with a pellet gun. But even then, since you are in a neighborhood be sure nothing is behind what you are shooting, especially if using a high powered pellet gun.

Well, how about a few other "bright" ideas then:

1) Golf club + golf ball --> anti duck artillery
2) Wasn't someone else on the OB selling some duck decoys? Set em up under a tree, drop cast net from the tree, sell em to chinese restaurant?
3) Laser guns. Seriously.

4) Surely we, the intelligentsia of the OB, can come up with a proper Rube Goldberg duck trap.

I think a better course of action might be to see if we can't snag a couple small gators in the 3-4' range from over in Sheldon SP and stick them in the lakes. They'd knock down the population pretty quickly. Especially the ducklings.

Probably take out a few of the yappier dogs in the neighborhood too.

Now we're talkin. Then when those gators get old and fat and all the ducks are gone... BOOTS.

ya know how awesome it would be to shoot them with a bow fishing bow!!!!!!!


reel them in and club them with a t-ball bat

Are these ducks still a problem? Id like to get a few for my place...like..alive.

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In all seriousness the HOA would not allow the whacking of ducks with high-powered pellet guns. They did however retain the services of a gentleman to remove a decent number of them.

So while we still have too many ducks their numbers have been reduced a good bit.

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Any idea what it cost your subdivision?

If I remember right Gleannloch paid a couple thousand dollars and the reduced population lasted about 3-4 months before nature restored the ducks to the previous numbers. It was so fun to attend later meetings and smile at the people who disagreed with me and said that wouldn't happen.

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In all seriousness the HOA would not allow the whacking of ducks with high-powered pellet guns. They did however retain the services of a gentleman to remove a decent number of them.

So while we still have too many ducks their numbers have been reduced a good bit.

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Any idea what it cost your subdivision?

If I remember right Gleannloch paid a couple thousand dollars and the reduced population lasted about 3-4 months before nature restored the ducks to the previous numbers. It was so fun to attend later meetings and smile at the people who disagreed with me and said that wouldn't happen.

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Nope.

The guy doing it is a resident and they're limiting it to the Muscovy ducks. So unless we get new transplants of Muscovy hopefully it will knock down the numbers a bit.

The issue has never been native birds but the Muscovy in particular.

Primarily it was the Muscovy's in Gleanloch as well. Mallards and all the other varieties seem to be very transient, as you would expect. The Muscovy's seem to stay year round.

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Primarily it was the Muscovy's in Gleanloch as well. Mallards and all the other varieties seem to be very transient, as you would expect. The Muscovy's seem to stay year round.

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So after they were removed did the Muscovy repopulate or was it the native birds?

We have a few of the Mexican whistlers and number of resident mallards. Those aren't the issue. Even the couple of Egyptian geese don't seem to be a problem. It's really all on the Muscovy. During the winter we get a good number of migratory birds.

A developer I worked with bought a piece of property in West Houston adjacent to an high tone HOA neighborhood. There was a pond on this private property that had a bunch of raunchy domestic ducks on it. Well, this company planned on filling this pond and building a high rise on this area of the property. When the HOA got wind of it and told their members of the plan, a bunch of them went nuts. Several had been venturing onto this private property for years feeding these ducks and did not want the pond removed.

The developer told them to pound sand because it was private property and these wackos took the issue to the news media who jumped on it like a duck on a june bug. Ended up with picketers on the property and it was a PR nightmare for Developer. After several meetings, HOA agreed to allow the Developer to have the ducks removed by a specialist and relocated. The "Specialist" turned out to be a bunch of guys the Specialist picked up at Home Depot with butterfly nets. Funny to watch but completely ineffective. Next stab at it by "Specialist" was to drug their food and grab them. This resulted in adjacent residents filming this episode and giving it to news media for more bad PR with film out there of doped up ducks toppling over in a stupor.

Developer finally had to wait until the heat of summer when the bulk of the adjacent neighborhood retired to their summer homes in Colorado to escape the heat. They brought back the "Specialist" to drug them up and snatch the bulk of them. They took them to a pond in Hempstead. A few they never caught and eventually found a new home somewhere else on there own.

So much for doing what you want to do on property you own.

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So after they were removed did the Muscovy repopulate or was it the native birds?

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The native birds come and go but the Muscovy did repopulate. The 2 lakes at the entrance to the subdivision and the large lake by the main pool and the canoe docks were the problem lakes and the Muscovy were removed. I'd say now there are 20 or so Muscovy that have taken up residence at the entrance lakes. I'm not sure about the lake by the pool as I haven't been there in a while.

The lakes back on the golf course were never favored by the Muscovy. Only native ducks, herons, egrets, and cormorants lived back there.

My educated guess was the Muscovy only liked the lakes where people would come to feed them or where they would get fed in someones back yard.

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Are these ducks still a problem? Id like to get a few for my place...like..alive.

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Interesting... Could you get in trouble for duck napping?

Would the laser cannon actually work? Or would the duck get uncomfortable before it's cooked enough to die?

What if you sprayed a fine layer of black powder, and then hit them with the laser cannon? Would they, uh, ignite?

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Interesting... Could you get in trouble for duck napping?

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Somebody posted the rules about Muscovy removal/relocation earlier in the thread. The way I read it is yes, yes you could.

I know you've had limited success dealing with muskovies, but I've had pretty decent success on multiple HOAs....I even had one getting done for free.

And yeah, don't go moving muskovies.

From what I can tell, most HOA's are full of inept ignorance. City people should have no input on anything wildlife. They have no clue. Dealing with that level of stupidity has got to be taxing. I feel sorry for you guys that have to do it on a daily basis. If I've said it once I've said it a 100 times. The day all these wildlife advocates start complaining about the murder of unborn children in our country is the day I'll help them with the wildlife.