However they have shown no interest what ever in the nesting house. Click to play video . Adding a duck box to your yard offers housing to these birds, which cannot excavate a cavity on their own. It provides mallards a safe place to nest, away from such predators as ferrets, pine martins and foxes. He was spending more and more time at the pond trying to get the ducks that come to our pond to take some bread out of his hand. Mallards nest on the ground, on piles of decaying vegetation, or sometimes in trees. Several weeks ago Bill Greene and Mitch Sivley approached me with the idea of building and installing nesting tubes for mallard ducks. But still we feel we are making a difference by contributing to successful broads of new ducks. Hen Houses Delta Waterfowl puts more mallards into the fall flight! My the father, who we refer to as the the duck whisperer was up to his shenanigans one afternoon. Videos for related products. A hen house is a tube of wire mesh lined with hay and attached to a post in shallow water. Delta Waterfowl Hen Houses are the most cost-effective tool to increase mallard production. Targeted to areas of the highest mallard breeding density, Hen Houses consistently boost nest success to more than 60 percent and commonly to 80 percent — in areas where ground-nesting Building Mallard Duck Nesting Tubes Now that we have successfully launched our Harrison Bay Eagle Cam Project we have turned our attention to yet another environmental conservation project. ... We have mallard ducks visiting our backyard and pool regularly, including a female that has mated. In the past 3 years we (our N.E. Here is how we built a mallard nesting tube last season. Indiana Chapter of Delta Waterfowl) have either put out or provided approximately 300 hen nesting tubes in this region and while we'd love for them all to be productive, it just will never happen. eHow. Offer mallards a safe and comfortable roost using the Heath Mallard Nesting Box. A decorative floating duck house with a hen house feature suits a growing mallard family. How to Pick Garden Bird Houses . 1:07 .