Fish meal?

I would be interested in the responses as well....

~ Aspen

Me either. What purpose does it serve in a waterfowl diet? You might try your local feed mill or something. They might have it.

~ Aspen

Fish meal- you can get Bonito flakes (fish flakes) off Amazon for a really good price. 

http://www.amazon.com/Marutomo-Katsuo-Bonito-Flake-16-Ounce/dp/B001AY8VV0/ref=sr_1_1?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1344057563&sr=1-1

When my susies start to lay - next spring I guess - they will have a supplementary fish oil, at about 2-3% of their diet.

It will be a hempseed&halibut powder (made for feeder fishing, like VDE "Envy" but much cheaper), because hempseed oil is very healthy too, it has the perfect ratio of Omega 3, 6 and 9 fatty acids. An article related to fish oil and egg production:

http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/20013025925.html;jsessionid=F53F5116E69C4BFE8C745CC9D32F7299

Bonito flakes are a must for a good miso soup :)

Oh, we have three more ducks: Klementina, Jázmin, Karmella, take a look at them and like them if you wish :)

Here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3705352985112.2153800.1014147316&type=3

Dear Lydia, looks like that VDE does not export the full Bait Tech line to the USA. But, there is a better option, same thing without carp attractors: I'm sure that you can buy prepared hemp seed (roasted or cooked or freshly milled) in a nearby fishing tackle shop or mail order. Hempseed is very good for catching catfish and carp, and it is THE traditional treat and most prized natural supplement food for poultry in Europe.

We have a poem that all and every children know and learn in school, and the poem's story is talking with a hen about it's treasured life, talking with the dog about the hen, that he must not eat it because it is the only hen of Mom. In the 3rd verse, it says that the hen lives like a king, because she is eating hempseed. If you would like to try translating the poem from Hungarian, give it a try, Google translator works so one can get the story: http://www.poet.hu/vers/82

Old poems don't lie, and whether it is pure hemp-oil (Nutrabaits has a clear product, but healthshops carry hempseed oil too) that we sprinkle a bit on scratch or real prepared hempseed, it is very beneficial for poultry. When I make pasta at home I use to put a teaspoon of hempseed-flour to the dough, it gives a nice nutty taste to the pasta.

Also, fish meal can be bought in different qualities, if you have only a few birds search for boilie base flour ingredients: herring-, halibut-, tuna-, krill-meal is ready to purchase in bigger tackleshops.

For big flocks I would call fish processing plants, maybe they will tell where they sell the fish-flours.

I would not feed fish-meal to those poultry that will be butchered. Industrially raised birds can have a fishy taste linked to fish-meal in their diet.

That facebook gallery is public, but here is a picture of the new girls: 

Currently I am strengthening them up, they are selected from huge flocks that are left to scavenge with little or no supplements (only a handful of corn that they fought over), and my original two younger birds are way bigger then them. Now I have 1 drake and 4 ducks, so proportion of gender is ideal I guess. They are accepting each other, pecking order is barely noticeable. I feel very lucky to care for them.

I just recently purchased some kelp meal...wow, really expensive!  I read about the benefits of feeding it as a supplement and thought I would check it out.  I asked my local feed shop to see if they could get some from their supplier.  They did, but it is so incredibly expensive!  It is a 50lb. bag and it is organic, but wow, I hope it is worth it!  I am sure that a 50lb. bag will last for a long time though.