Can ducks drink tea?

[21hens-incharge]

Okay! So would non caffeinated tea be okay?

Tea is for humans. As stated above caffeine is bad for birds. Decaf is usually accomplished with chemicals and residual caffeine can exist.

Best to stick with warm water if you want to give them a warm beverage.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Tea is for humans. As stated above caffeine is bad for birds. Decaf is usually accomplished with chemicals and residual caffeine can exist.

Best to stick with warm water if you want to give them a warm beverage.

I think by non caffeinated they might have meant herbal rather than decaf ? But I still wouldn’t recommend it cause it’s hard to know exactly what herbs are safe or what other ingredients are in there that they might not list.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

i’ve always heard it was good for them?

Nope.

 

[Ruby Rogue]

Tea can be made with any herbs, not just green and black (orange pekoe) tea which are the caffeinated ones you usually think of. Fresh warm herbal tea is probably safer than boxed tea bags.

 

[KaleIAm]

I wouldn't give peppermint. In humans it can relax the lower esophageal sphincter and cause heartburn. Camomile is supposed to promote relaxation. Birds, in general, are more sensitive to these sorts of things.

If you want to give them a special winter treat I would give them slightly warm mealworm water. Or veggies like chopped tomatoes and lettuce in slightly warm water. Or their regular food in slightly warm water. Perhaps slightly warmer than room temperature.

Personally I would be very careful NOT to give hot or too warm water. One time I saw a caregiver let their parrot drink soup and the parrot got a crop burn that was about 3 inches long. It burned right from the inside to the outside of his crop. He got stitched up, under anesthesia, and lived, but barely. I don't know if that can happen to adult ducks or not - but seeing it happen to a young parrot is enough to make me say something.

 

[HuffleClaw]

I don’t feed anything hot in winter. Mostly because hot things freeze faster. They do get extra scratch grains though.

 

[FernbergFarms]

I was thinking this tea.. but this morning I made them tomato carrot mash so they had a healthy warm treat. I decided to be safe than sorry.

but I was thinking more natural tea and not caffeinated. But the warm mash will do this morning!

 

[KaleIAm]

I was thinking this tea.. but this morning I made them tomato carrot mash so they had a healthy warm treat. I decided to be safe than sorry. View attachment 2466242but I was thinking more natural tea and not caffeinated. But the warm mash will do this morning!

Good call on better to be safe than sorry, in my opinion!

 

[FernbergFarms]

Also, does anyone know why my girl ducks eyes turn red in the winter??(they usually don’t turn back their beautiful brown but just stay red forever) This always happened with my chicken hens and now my girl ducks eyes are turning red too! But the drakes eyes are staying their same brown and blue.

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

Also, does anyone know why my girl ducks eyes turn red in the winter??(they usually don’t turn back their beautiful brown but just stay red forever) This always happened with my chicken hens and now my girl ducks eyes are turning red too! But the drakes eyes are staying their same brown and blue.

do they have a dunking bucket