. The Game Züchter . f Ihre Zeitschrift. Ich weiß, dass der edi-Tor des Wildzüchters eine Wildente kennt, wenn er eine sieht, und ich denke, dass das Magazin sehr viel getan hat, um alle unsere Wildmallard-Züchter, sowie die Käufer von Eiern und Zuchttieren zu züchten, Den großen Unterschied zwischen den reinen Wildenten und den sogenannten Stockenten zu erkennen, die in den meisten Fällen keine Rasse irgendeiner Art sind. Mir wurde von einigen guten Wildzüchtern, die behaupteten, alte Züchter zu sein, gesagt, dass sie vor sechs Jahren eine Einstellung von Eiern von einem bekannten Züchter bekommen haben und nur von den erlesensten von ihnen die ganze Zeit gezüchtet haben, clami
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. The Game breeder . f your magazine. I know that the edi-tor of The Game Breeder knows a wildduck when he sees one and I think themagazine has done a great deal to causeall our wild mallard breeders, as wellas the buyers of eggs and breedingstock, to realize the great difference be-tween the pure wild ducks and the so-called mallards which in most cases areof no breed of any kind. I have been told by some good game breeders, who claimed to be old breed-ers, that they got a setting of eggs fiveor six years ago from a noted breederand had only bred from the choicest ofthem all this time, claiming that theynow have a very fine grade of breeders. There is where most of our mallardbreeders have made a big mistake asthis is what I call in-bred stock and al-most worthless; but the average buyerwill purchase this quality of stock andeggs because they think they are gettingpure-bred birds and eggs at about one-fourth what it costs to produce pure-bred birds that are not in-bred. I have only been breeding mallards. Pure Bred Black Ducks. Teal, Widgeon and Pintais, 106 THE GAME BREEDER and black ducks for five or six years. Istarted with a pair of each kind that Itrapped on our shooting ground. Eachyear I have trapped from -twenty-five toas high as ninety-six ducks (in 1916).I have a permit to do this from ourGame Department. By adding new blood each season mybirds do not in-breed by mating withbirds from the same nest, a thing whichno wild bird will do in their wild stateor where they have their liberty. I hatched about 2, 500 ducklings lastseason and brought over 2, 000 to matur- ity, using a mammoth incubator, 1, 800egg size, and chicken brooders. I havevery small losses. Some of my hatchesproduced over seventy-five per cent ofthe eggs put into the machine last sea-son. So far this season my ducks have notlaid extra well and I have not set anyeggs to this date (May 28), as I havebeen kept busy filling orders for eggs. I only kept 200 breeders and sixty ofthese are black ducks
