I have the nutrition and management book. It has been a good source in combination with UK publications on waterfowl. Its how we have come up with what we feed. We also have a scale to measure with.
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Can you share with us what you use to make a balanced duck food? and the link won't work.Considering there was just another poultry feed recall (this time for elevated levels of calcium; the sixth recall of poultry feed so far this year), I think it's great that folks are looking to supplement and/or replace commercial feed.
Most of that stuff is designed for feed lot animals to fatten them up fast for slaughter, not for pets. Commercial feed is usually just corn, soy, and a bunch of supplements derived from petroleum or other non-food sources that aren't digestible anyway. It's a total scam, and the reason why so many of our feed animals are doped up on antibiotics to survive malnutrition. There are a lot of "natural" fakes out there, too.
We make our own duck food and provide a wide variety of fresh foods. The ducks also free range, eating what they want depending on the time of year. Our ducks can fly, so I imagine they'd have take off by now if they weren't getting what they need.
I added whole oats to my FF, my flock loved it. I planted about 1/2A, I grew about 3 plants total, so that yield was about 3 handfuls. LOL I think I planted wrong, should have went for a 2nd till. Thanks for link ML
Considering there was just another poultry feed recall (this time for elevated levels of calcium; the sixth recall of poultry feed so far this year), I think it's great that folks are looking to supplement and/or replace commercial feed.
Most of that stuff is designed for feed lot animals to fatten them up fast for slaughter, not for pets. Commercial feed is usually just corn, soy, and a bunch of supplements derived from petroleum or other non-food sources that aren't digestible anyway. It's a total scam, and the reason why so many of our feed animals are doped up on antibiotics to survive malnutrition. There are a lot of "natural" fakes out there, too.
We make our own duck food and provide a wide variety of fresh foods. The ducks also free range, eating what they want depending on the time of year. Our ducks can fly, so I imagine they'd have take off by now if they weren't getting what they need.
Do you mind sharing which feed/feeds you use and do you think since we are adding other grains like whole oats and myself 7way scratch grains to my Flock raiser that I am hurting my flocks health? I am not scientist but really would like to be sure I am feeding a balanced diet. Would you comment on post 12 of the link I gave, thanksThere are a lot of errors in this.....commercial feeds usually have corn and soy as a bas e to provide the base energy content, and the supplements are to balance the amino acis and mineral rations....last I knew, manganese and amino acids were not petroleum based non-food resources that aren't digestible. I also would like to know what feeds regularly include antibiotics....it makes feed much more expensive....non of the feeds I use list antibiotics in the ingredients....
You make you own food, good for you....hope you have done the research to provide a balanced diet. Fortunately, domestic ducks are VERY forgiving to mismanagement. Wonder how many fewer "problems", like weak legs, egg-binding, and many other ailments that are listed daily.....quite possibly from people reading posts that suggest they can feed sub-quality foods to save money.
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Do you mind sharing which feed/feeds you use and do you think since we are adding other grains like whole oats and myself 7way scratch grains to my Flock raiser that I am hurting my flocks health? I am not scientist but really would like to be sure I am feeding a balanced diet. Would you comment on post 12 of the link I gave, thanks