NZ HUNTER MAGAZINE How To
Some of these tips may come just a little bit too late to be useful to you this year, but you can refer to them next season.
GETTING AN EARLY START
How are all the jobs you promised to complete in the mai mai progressing? That floor you said you would replace or the leaking roof that needs some TLC - are they done?
Chances are that they're not. I must admit I'm often as guilty of this as the next hunter.
If I were an Opening Weekend pond hunter, I would want to keep the ducks as relaxed and settled as possible. So, I would be getting any repairs or alterations, and the bulk of the scrubbing done as early in the new year as possible.
I try to get most of the scrubbing done as early as possible, and if things lose their colour and do not look as natural as I'd like, I sneak back after dark when the ducks have left.
It is not hard to love your pond to death, so limit the time you spend there making a ruckus and scaring your ducks.
FEEDING
Why? By doing this, you can get ducks settled early before others start, and hopefully, most of them will remain on your pond instead of having to go to other
