Duck waterers and feeders?

[casportpony]

Are the pellets horse bedding pellets? Or feed? If horse bedding, do the ducks not eat them?

Mine don't eat them.

 

[Soon2BChixMom]

I started this system after the ducks were adult. I understand the concern with ducks eating them, since some ducks eat all kinds of things bad for them

Mine show no interest in eating sawdust pellets, thank goodness. I suppose you could cover them with an old towel.....

When I had guinea pigs, I used the horse stall pellets for bedding. It was great. But, I thought the ducks or chickens might eat them if I used them in their set up. My drake picked up a tiny chunk of wood that was in the rocks just the other day- swirled it in his mouth, dropped it, and picked it up again before I could see what he had. When I looked it was a small piece of wood from where we had sawed to make the chicken coop. Maybe they would test it first and see that it has no taste?

 

[Amiga]

Mine do not eat them, and many folks use them with ducks. There are some stories of ducks eating weird things, though.

Generally what I do with new things, like bedding, is put some down when I have time to closely watch what the ducks do with it. That is how I found the ducklings were trying to eat wood shavings. Now that they are grown, they do not try to eat everything.