Maggie's Farm

We've had em as thick as that third picture on club land before. They'll eat through rice fields in a hurry.

Pretty much. Even a small group of, say, 500, can easily clear 10 acres of rice in a day. We used to have two contiguous rice fields that the critters had developed a tradition for feeding and roosting. Some would stay during the night then flight out during the day, others would come in from elsewhere and fly in. Probably held 5,000 + snows at times. They ate out 750 acres in a little over 3 weeks and we were left largely with the roost group. No longer have the lease on those fields.

We are delaying flooding of one of our rice units until December 15th (season opens down here the day after Thanksgiving) due to fear that the snows could demolish it before the season even starts. Everything else we've started flooding.