Mallard

Production of mallard ducklings

HThe company Fishery Hluboka a.s. produces ducklings from mallards originating from a recognized and well established breed. Part of the ducklings is introduced into the hunting grounds and part of them is sold to customers at the age of 7, 14, and 21 days.

Mallard

Mallard is the most common and economically most important duck of the Czech Republic. Mallards are typical inhabitants of most of our ponds, water reservoirs, and slowly running waters. The main factor for the occurrence of mallard is the character of water surfaces, where the vegetation must be sufficient to create thick vegetation for daily shelter and sufficient number of shallow places providing the possibility for nutrition. Mallards feed mostly on insects, plants, mollusks, or hard bread. During the nidification, they form a temporary couples and the female hatches 7 to 15 ducklings after 25 to 30 days. Outside Czech Republic, mallards live throughout the entire Europe, Asia, North America and Africa.