Are my ducks underweight !! Not sure if I’m feeding them enough

Roxyk

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Hi, I have 3 ducks ranging from 5months old-2 years old.

I just want to make sure I’m feeding them enough everyday because they have these really predominate breasts then curve into there stomach (if that makes sense)

We feed them pellets throughout the morning/day and vegetables and fruit in the afternoon/night. They also have a huge yard they eat from while we’re at work

They don’t seem as if there hungry and sometimes they won’t eat all the food out straight away.

Any suggestions would be great, I’ve atyached a photo of them
 
Here are them
 

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If their chests are bulged out that means they just ate so much that their crop swelled up. Ducklings especially will stuff themselves like that.

If you're positive they have enough to eat during the day when you're away, then that they don't finish your feed usually isn't anything to be concerned about. Grown up ducks also don't need to eat as much and as often as ducklings. One of my ducks would stuff herself at 8 am then won't eat anything else until 6 hours later. Each duck's eating habit is different.

See, my ducks get like that too.
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