Can ducks eat chick starter?

[VeryHappyHens]

It’s medicated? If so, no, they can’t eat medicated chick feed. It has to be non-medicated.

EDIT: if the medication used is just amprolium, people say it should be fine but you still need to give them extra niacin

Whoops Guess I have to switch back.

 

[riss]

Yes the biggest thing ducklings will need is niacin. What I bought for my ducks that is AWESOME for them is Mazuri Waterfowl Starter Diet. Has pretty much everything they need and they enjoy it too!

Once they were fully grown I switched their feed but still mix that Mazuri stuff in there just so they can get niacin which other feed lacks

 

[riss]

Mazuri Waterfowl Starter Diet.

Sometimes I leave some out for the geese by my lake. Their little ones go gaga for it and the parents seem to enjoy it too

 

[cluckingheck]

Whoops Guess I have to switch back.

There’s a lot of conflicting info. I was always told it wasn’t a good idea to feed them medicated food. I would switch back just to be safe, though.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Amprolium is a Thiamine Blocker, it won't hurt ducklings.

The Medicated feed in the older days used either Cyanide, or Arsenic as a Coccidiastat, & it was more deadly to ducklings then chicks. Chickens tolerate the poison better.

 

[VeryHappyHens]

Amprolium is a Thiamine Blocker, it won't hurt ducklings.

The Medicated feed in the older days used either Cyanide, or Arsenic as a Coccidiastat, & it was more deadly to ducklings then chicks. Chickens tolerate the poison better.

Yikes!! I definitionally need to switch the feed immediately. Before they die like this ~>

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yikes!! I definitionally need to switch the feed immediately. Before they die like this ~>

Your ducklings are safe, they no longer use those poisons in the feed.

 

[VeryHappyHens]

Your ducklings are safe, they no longer use those poisons in the feed.

okay good!

 

[MysteryChicken]

okay good!

Yep.

I did state in the sentence, (In The Older Days) I don't remember what years.

 

[MysteryChicken]

You'll still have to supplement with Niacin though.