duck nutrition

I've raised chickens for a decade & feel very comfortable caring for them. This May, I'll be moving into new territory by adding 7 Ancona duck hens & a drake. I plan to manage my ducks & chickens as one, mixed flock. Since I've never had ducks before, I'm still researching & learning what I can...

i've got a 2 week six day old muscovy duckling, and i'm wondering if i can feed him goya green pigeon peas for niacin nutrition? might be a stupid question

Hi! I am a relatively new duck mom and am a bit confused on the timeline for switching foods. We have three female runner ducks that are 23 weeks old. They are currently eating Manna Pro Duck Starter Grower Feed and I am mixing in oats for a 25% oats/75% feed ratio. I also mix in Fresh Eggs...

Background Info: I have a muscovy That I rescued when he was A day old. I tried for 4 months to integrate him with other ducks. Every time I would step outside He'd latch onto my ankle in a tantrum and try To get in the car with me or come inside. He was petrified of the other ducks . I...

We have three ducks nesting under our house in an inaccessible place. We have no idea what is going to happen to them. We can't protect them and we have no idea how many eggs they have.:idunno In a desperate effort to control the duck population around here, I spent yesterday morning trying to...

This is the third day my 1st time laying duck has laid a shell-less egg. I imagine she laid it sometime in the morning, as my husband found it (crushed up), when he was cleaning the duck house. Yesterday she had trouble laying her second egg (had to put her in a tub of warm water and feed her...

I have 6 ducks. 2 female welshies, 1 male and 1 female khaki campbells, a female Cayuga duckling, and a female jumbo pekin duckling. So far their diets consist of whole corn, bok choy, kale, meal worms, occasionally bell peppers, oats (cooked for the babies), and I feed the girls that are laying...

I was running out of the smaller, starter crumbles and decided that I was going to try the bigger pellets. My ducks pick them up and then let them drop from their mouths. They are 10 weeks old and I thought they would be old enough to eat the pellets, but was I wrong? Or do they just not like...

Hi all. I have visited a few times but this is my first post. Everytime i have thought something was weird or confusing reading through past responses has helped. I have had my ducks for around two years now and they are pets, i have 1 muscovy male, 2 khaki campbells male and female, and 4...