So, I wrote on her several months ago asking advice on building a duck hunting place near Richland Chambers lake. The bulldozer work was completed this week and the gate will be put in this weekend to allow drainage. It.s around 2 acres. So, was planning on trying to plant something this weekend. What is the suggestion from you guys? Some say golden millet. Some say go ahead and flood it and plant duck weed.

Throw a bunch of corn out to feed the deer... then decide you dont like deer.... flood pond to avoid deer

How do you plant duck weed? Scoop up from a creek somewhere & just relocate it into your pond?

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foxtail or Japanese millet should be good. But I had always been told that you couldn't hunt waterfowl over a planted field like that. But i'm clueless on the fed and state laws on that

I wouldn't transplant duck week, it can take over and be a problem. I would transplant smart weed.

I think most of those plants will show up eventually (not the millet). Also plant some buttonbushes around the pond, ducks love buttonbush seeds, also provides cover and nesting for other shorebirds

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Apache said:

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How do you plant duck weed? Scoop up from a creek somewhere & just relocate it into your pond?

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Believe it or not, you can buy it off of Amazon

WETLAND CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT

East Texas Wetland Management Calendar

this might be of some interest

Japanese millet will grow fast enough for the season if you plant now, but you really need mudflats to plant it. If you have the mud, all you really have to do is spread it and then stomp it in.

In dry soil, it won't sprout.

But it grows tall & beautiful. The ducks love it.

So do cows. If there is livestock around, you'll want to fence off your plot.

BQ_90 said:

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foxtail or Japanese millet should be good. But I had always been told that you couldn't hunt waterfowl over a planted field like that. But i'm clueless on the fed and state laws on that

I wouldn't transplant duck week, it can take over and be a problem. I would transplant smart weed.

I think most of those plants will show up eventually (not the millet). Also plant some buttonbushes around the pond, ducks love buttonbush seeds, also provides cover and nesting for other shorebirds

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I am defiantly not an expert here but my understanding is that as long as you dont manipulate the crop (shake out the seeds, etc.) it falls under "normal agricultural practice" and is legal. No different than dove hunting in a sunflower field or killing mallards in a corn field.

I have hunted over millet and would recommend that or wild rice.

There are some commercially available water fowl/wetland seed mixes which have great duck food value.