Feeding call

[Wingman]

[tupe]

[tunica]

[Greenhead22]

I have heard one hen machine gun feed on the water, and like I said, it freaked me out.

Hens do try to quack while they are feeding. If you know what the bouncin' hen is, then you know what I'm talking about. It's basically a series of quack-cuts in a 3-5 note sequence, where the hen is trying to quack, but her craw is full of feed, which causes her to "cut" her quack.

[tunica]

[Greenhead22]

[GulfCoast]

[Greenhead22]

[tunica]

[crow]

I have always found it easier to use the "d" sound that the "t" sound in a feeding cluck. It is not a chatter, as most have agreed. I guess it's just easier for my to say "duh" or maybe "doh!"

I also agree that the sequence of "dut, dut, duhta, dut, quack" is the best. Vary the cadence a bit (slow it down, speed it up) to simulate a couple of birds. It's great for settling the birds into your setup. I remember hearing that the birds the first couple of days needed to be called all the way into the decoys. I think that is a bad mistake that a lot of duck callers make in not using the more subtle calls all the way in. Even ducks who have been called at for a while like to hear a little action going on, along with a little movement (interpret that as feed clucks and soft quacks along with a jerk string).

crow

[DUCKAHOLIC]

[GET-N-RITE]

[tombstone]

[jar0023]

[Greenhead22]