Duckling vomiting???

[Miss Lydia]

Hows your duckling this morning? @laurapea

 

[laurapea]

I'm glad you posted the list of things you just gave them. Buttercups and bindweed are poison for ducks and affects the GI tract = vomit!
http://www.poultryhelp.com/toxicplants.html

Thank you so much for your help and that link is mega helpful.

 

[laurapea]

Hows your duckling this morning? @laurapea

They’re both fab thank you! There was just the one incident of vomiting and they have been fine since thank goodness, thanks for checking.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That's great to hear.

 

[DuckyDonna]

Thank you so much for your help and that link is mega helpful.

Did you see that the bindweed has LSD properties! I had to look up to see what that was but wow! It looks like morning glory to me so it must be in the same family. When I saw that you gave buttercup is what triggered me to look it up. For some reason, I must have read that was bad somewhere.

I see that on that list is cabbage too. My ducks have eaten so much cabbage that they should all be dead so IDK about that. There is a list posted on BYC too that I've always gone by https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-ultimate-list-of-duck-treats-and-supplements.242460/ and cabbage is on it!

 

[laurapea]

Did you see that the bindweed has LSD properties! I had to look up to see what that was but wow! It looks like morning glory to me so it must be in the same family. When I saw that you gave buttercup is what triggered me to look it up. For some reason, I must have read that was bad somewhere.

I see that on that list is cabbage too. My ducks have eaten so much cabbage that they should all be dead so IDK about that. There is a list posted on BYC too that I've always gone by https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-ultimate-list-of-duck-treats-and-supplements.242460/ and cabbage is on it!

Yes! I noticed that lots of brassicas are not recommended and yet I see so many people recommending cabbage and kale as treats. Very confusing!

Thanks again for the advice, I really appreciate it. What a lovely community of people this is, honestly feel so blessed to have found you all!

 

[laurapea]

That's great to hear.

Thank you, feels like a lucky escape. Could have been much worse by the sounds of it! Eek! Will certainly make me more paranoid about what’s in my garden, especially when they start adventuring out there on their own.

 

[DuckyDonna]

Thank you, feels like a lucky escape. Could have been much worse by the sounds of it! Eek! Will certainly make me more paranoid about what’s in my garden, especially when they start adventuring out there on their own.

Be aware that they will destroy your garden, especially if the plants are just starting to come up.

I started with ducks thinking that they'd become my "pest patrol" for the garden and they ended up eating everything in sight and I got nothing but the chore of replanting!