floating duck food, HOW??

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

hi, I have been searching for the recipes that will make duck food float for years now... please... if you know... share this knowledge (and hopefully spare some part of my sanity).

MUCH thanks!

 

[ExoticPetOwner]

Why do you need the feed to float, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

@ExoticPetOwner

Duck food, my ducks only really eat when it is floating food, but there are no local foods. The best I have found is on Amazon, but it costs $55 for 8lbs.

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

They male quarter-inch floating fish food for koi and salmonids. But, it's much higher protein than what poultry usually receive and it is expensive.

It is the cost that makes me want to make it myself.

 

[raingarden]

The difference in commercial sinking and floating pellets is the extrusion temperature. Floating feeds are extruded at a higher temperature so steam puffs it up.

I've never done this, but you could try adding baking powder to your regular feed, moistening and mixing it to make a dough and baking it like you would crackers. The baking powder will make it rise so it floats like a cracker. Adding yeast and letting it rise before baking might work too. Heat will destroy some of the vitamin so you might want to mix in extra vitamin C.