Another niacin question!

[Miss Lydia]

Yes I did!

 

[nao57]

I usually have a hatch about the first of June so its nice and warm and we have watermelon. I cut some up really small for the little bitty ducklings last year and put the b-complex on it. It was like they vacuumed it up. It was gone in seconds so I knew that they got all the B into their little systems. You could do tomatoes too. @Isaac 0 has a good link for you to look at as well. Oh and meal worms. I got one of those little yellow balls that they have at TSC for about $5. You put the meal worms in it and it's hysterical watching them chase that little ball all around their brooder. It's amazing how fast they learned that there were treats inside of it. My little bowl of chick grit you can see on the side.
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Wow!

Thanks for the pic! Its really fun to see them when they are young like this. One of mine looks kind of like these.

A side question for the group as a whole; if you get a duckling to recover (or mostly recover) from niacin deficiency, and then grow it to adulthood, will eggs or ducklings fostered from that recovered duck have a higher chance of having niacin deficiency also? What do you think about this?

I think this question could be really important. But I'm not saying to be cruel with the ducklings that have had a few issues.

Is it then also going to be more trouble to have recovered niacin ducklings become breeders later, compared to other ducks who haven't had issues?

When I see the durvet B niacin vitamin bottles, it just looks like concentrated B vitamin, I'm wondereding if a cheaper B vitamin can be used in its place since they charge so much for this Durvet B stuff?

 

[Tor7039]

I use to use this brand before I switched to Nutritional yeast.

Hi Miss Lydia! I just ended up buying nutritional yeast for my ducklings because they were turning their nose up at the brewers yeast. I got these two options at Whole Foods and remembered you commented saying you used nutritional yeast. Do either of these seem okay? Hoping this will work better than the brewers yeast!

 

[Miss Lydia]

They are fine but your much better off buying a larger container since you’ll be using 1 tab per cup of feed Whole Foods Trader Joe’s or Amazon should have it in bulk.

 

[Tor7039]

They are fine but your much better off buying a larger container since you’ll be using 1 tab per cup of feed Whole Foods Trader Joe’s or Amazon should have it in bulk.

Okay thanks! I’ll check amazon for it in bulk.

 

[Miss Lydia]

You may not want to buy 10lb like me but I order off Amazon I feed it to my birds dogs and myself.