Messy Ducks

[EAhearn05]

Is there anything I can do to keep my ducks from spilling so much food everywhere? When they eat they seem to dump half of the food from their mouth to the ground. I don't like having so much wasted food. They were eating from a chicken feeder, then I tried feeding them from a shallow bucket to see if that would help, but there is really no improvement. Suggestions?

 

[Miss Lydia]

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This is what I bought for my ducks, chickens and goose. It works great and hardly any spillage.
http://www.tractorsupply.com/livest...e-tuf-hookover-goat-trough-9-qt-black-2221814

 

[Amiga]

I grabbed some 4" deep 12"x15" plastic tubs that were going to be cast off from a delicatessen. I only put an inch of food in it at a time. Very little gets splashed out or wasted. It's got straight sides so no one can tip it over.

 

[jdywntr]

I actually got the goat trough for my ducks too. Unfortunately, it was still bad with waste. I now use a ~4" high cat litter pan filled to and inch or so. I also switched to pellets as crumbles where always EVERYWHERE. Very little waste and since my chickens eat the same thing, they clean up anything on the ground.

 

[mandelyn]

I set the auto feeder into a kitten litter pan, so when they spill, they can eat out of the bottom too. Very little waste. I ended up going the same thing with the chickens, putting the feeder into a pan, because they would flick it out and waste it as soon as it hit the bedding.

 

[EAhearn05]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

 

[TLWR]

I switched from crumbles to pellets.
If I could buy the flock raiser in pellet form, I'd go back to feeding that, but I can only find chicken layer pellets here.
There is still some mess, but nothing like it was. I could almost say NO mess in comparison