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Quality charter

Quality charter of the Boismorand domain

Ducks

Big Game

The domain is located on a migratory path and it is not rare to hunt migratory birds flying over the domain, in October, during the migrations. Many of our ducks are born on our ponds from parents which have been hunted the season before and which present all the wild characteristics. We put some floating artificial nests : they are often taken and it is not rare in April, to see on our ponds a female duck followed by 15 or 16 ducklings.

 

In June, we introduce a thousand of 8 week old ducks. They are fed once a week, each time on a different pond in order to accustomed them to flying from a pond to another and they always keep this habit.

 

This very flying line is very competitive and interesting to hunt : they leave the memory of ducks which fly high, fast and well. It is a real pleasure for huntsmen.

Objective : No release !

We hunt only the natural excedent of the populations that are born on the domain. Here, there is no release before the days of hunting. We introduce few breeders, male and female, at the end of the hunting season in order that they get accustomed to the territory during spring and summer and to make sure that they will do what we are expecting them to do : take an important part in reproduction and renew the blood, bringing their characteristics to improve the quality of the trophies on the territory. It is obvious that these introductions can't be numerous in order not to alter the spirit of hunting...

In 1999 : 6 males and 6 females roe deer were introduced.

The animals feed themselves and are only exceptionally fed with fodder (except during very hard winters).

The 25 hectares of chestnut trees in the forest of the domain take an important part in the feeding of animals, as well as the acorns on thayears on which there are a lot.

As they are sometimes hunted in venery, it keeps their vitality and you will be pleasantly surprised by their wildness..

Gamekeepers and guides of the domain are competent and passionate by their job so that they would not understand behaviours that would not do honour to hunting ant its code of ethics.