Originally Posted by bgizzle (Post 655173)

That's just personal thoughts. No proof. Just think if it had been in muddy rice fields awhile it would have muddy feet. They almost looked fake they were so orange.


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Originally Posted by aquaholic (Post 655183)

Feet change color secondary to hormone changes in breeding season. Has absolutely nothing to do w new birds. Hope this helps. We are seeing birds paired already and lots of courting flights( a bunch of drakes and one hen)

Originally Posted by aquaholic (Post 655183)

Feet change color secondary to hormone changes in breeding season. Has absolutely nothing to do w new birds. Hope this helps. We are seeing birds paired already and lots of courting flights( a bunch of drakes and one hen)

Originally Posted by Goooh (Post 655244)

They don't fly non stop, and there are muddy fields from here to canada!

Originally Posted by Goooh (Post 655244)

They don't fly non stop, and there are muddy fields from here to canada!

Originally Posted by aquaholic (Post 655183)

Feet change color secondary to hormone changes in breeding season. Has absolutely nothing to do w new birds. Hope this helps. We are seeing birds paired already and lots of courting flights( a bunch of drakes and one hen)

Originally Posted by Kenner18 (Post 655282)

Exactly !!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Feesherman (Post 655311)

Not only that da taxidermist can paint dem feets whatever color u want

Originally Posted by meaux fishing (Post 655317)

Can I gets my feets painted purple??

Originally Posted by redspeck82 (Post 655319)

What does purple feet mean? I need to kill one of them forsure mount worthy.

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458 (Post 655328)

Purple feet means they've been in the desert.


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Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458 (Post 655328)

Purple feet means they've been in the desert.


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Originally Posted by meaux fishing (Post 655344)

I thought it meant they just flew down from Saskatchewan... Their feet are still frozen

Originally Posted by redspeck82 (Post 655348)

Kinda my thoughts on it also. If the feet r black and blue it could mean they're artic mallards with frostbite.

Originally Posted by hankscke123 (Post 655381)

Purple feet means they chasing the females getting close but not sealing deal hence blue feet lol.

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458 (Post 655382)

Well which is it? Purple or blue?


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Originally Posted by swamp snorkler (Post 655395)

you know what he thought he to type

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458 (Post 655402)

I don't know what you thought you to type either though.


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Originally Posted by SaltERedneck (Post 655400)

All of Gizzle's threads turn out to be classic...




toooo funny.

Originally Posted by sulphite (Post 655523)

hell you should be able to mount anything with a tramp stamp....

Originally Posted by bgizzle (Post 656700)

I was told by old timers that the "red legged" mallards were northerners that migrated and that's how you knew they were new arrivals. Seems I was wrong but after doing research seems it's confused more often than you think. But I was wrong and never afraid to admit it. I thank you guys for teaching me the right thing about them.

Have you ever heard that you can tell where a mallard is from by the color of its feet? As the story goes, the legs and feet of northern mallards are redder than their southern cohorts because low temperatures in higher latitudes cause more blood to flow to the birds’ extremities. These mallards are also thought to be larger and hardier than mallards raised in southern parts of the species’ range. Old-timers called these big, late-migrating mallards “redlegs.”

You can read the rest of article at this link

http://www.ducks.org/conservation/wa...webbed-wonders


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Originally Posted by Duck Butter (Post 656719)

I was told the same thing as well. Ducks would come in and someone would inevitably say 'them there is flight ducks, look at them red legs', well they are surely flight ducks because they didn't swim in right?:rotfl:
But yes, the feet and bill and even eye rings of some ducks get more coloration closer to mating season. A wood duck drake in November is a pretty bird no doubt, but much prettier in March.

Keep it in the freezer and if you kill one later in the year thats 'prettier' mount that one and use that other for dog training - unless you have a rock dog:spineyes: