Waterfowl

MALLARD, SOMETIMES TEAL OR SNIPE

The duck shooting at Château de Villette has a well-earned reputation as one of the top duck shoots in Europe. Duck is presented over several ponds and lakes, over fields and woodland.

Waterfowl can be shot near crop fields where they feed, or, more frequently, on or near bodies of water such as our lakes, ponds, and swamps. Burgundy lies in the middle of the migratory route for wildfowl over Central France.

Boar with Hounds

TRADITIONAL FRENCH FOXHOUNDS

PLEASE NOTE: Due to an increase of demand for our Driven Bird days, we have postponed the organisation of this activity.

Boar hunting with foxhounds is a traditional activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a boar by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of unarmed followers led by a master of foxhounds, who follow the hounds on foot.

You will be posted in a line and when the boar breaks through the line it can be shot. The distinctive howling “music” of the hounds announces whether they are on scent of a boar. As the hounds only chase one boar at the time, the bags will be smaller than with driven boar.