Does anyone have any experience with feeding their ducks beans?

[Dances with Ducks]

I just found a local seller of organic non-soy feed for a great price, but the mix includes beans.
Here's the mix: hammered wheat, beans, blue corn and other seeds from the grain cleaning process.
Anyone ever feed any beans to their ducks?
Soy is a bean and it is in all commercial poultry feed so is it too much a stretch to try other types of beans?
What do you guys think?

 

[dixygirl]

I am sure they eat beans if they are lucky to come across them in nature since ducks are omnivorous. They will eat anything they are lucky enough to find in nature. Meat, fish, vegetables, worms, slugs, seeds. You name it, they will eat it.

 

[Cetawin]

what kind of beans? Mine eat fresh green beans steamed and fresh when they can get to them. No problems so far. They are 9 weeks old and doing fine. Sighting in on those ingredients, it does not look like a balance macronutrient food for them though. I would thoroughly research it.

 

[goosedragon]

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I used to feed my birds an all grain/bean feed called "roc n rooster" it had several different types of dry beans/peas (but no soya beans which MUST be cooked before feeding) They liked it and did well on it and I only switched because it was expensive!

 

[Dances with Ducks]

Interesting and encouraging! Now to try to get a grasp on the overall nutrient content, I don't want malnourished ducks even if they are eating a non-soy organic food.

 

[Wifezilla]

Goosedragon, the feed you were using sounds a LOT like what Dances with Ducks and I are looking in to. It is only $26/100 lbs though. There is an organic place in Longmont offering soy-free feed with beans in it and the price looks great.

 

[dixygirl]

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I used to feed my birds an all grain/bean feed called "roc n rooster" it had several different types of dry beans/peas (but no soya beans which MUST be cooked before feeding) They liked it and did well on it and I only switched because it was expensive!

Um that gives me an idea. I will cook some mixed beens and serve them as treats.