Flock Raiser feed

[HSerChickLady]

I've never used this before but I'm wondering how others have made out with it for their ducklings? I never used it with my older ducks but we're trying to decide what food to move our new ducklings to when their bag of DuMor chick starter runs out. I want something better quality than DuMor if possible. If your ducklings do better on something else please share what that is. I have 5 Crested and 1 Rouen duckling that will be getting it.

 

[wvcountrygirl]

I think I use Purina brand for my adult ducks. I'm new to all this. I had 7 tame ducks show up in the creek behind my house and I've kinda adopted them. They love the Purina and they also eat dry dog food daily. They go crazy over the dog food so I always give it to them after they have their duck feed.

 

[laughingdog]

I tried three bags over months of having my females, and now ducklings penned, and they all got horribly ill and vit min especially niacin deficiencies, one duckling disabled maybe perm, one duckling disabled to point will probly need to be put down. switched to dumar duck/chick starter (20%), and trouble stopped. trying to supplement to fix prob and trying to get hold of purina as well as supposed experts to stop endorsing and encouraging people to use (obviously just taking money to advertise and not researching or using selves, as one or two bags could be mill mixing error but three bought from different shipments???). fed nothing but cheap "co-op" brand "chick start/grow" and had no trouble from ducks through no bug or green season here with mother father and young scovy (and they were rescues, kept in barn stall from hatchlings, given whole corn only till i bought at point of lay at about year old). used dumar game/chick only starter (24%) for leghornd n game hens before, and chick/duck start/grow for scovy of all ages (20%) and no trouble but fast growth and bad sloppy poops some. since switched back to dumar that maybe need extra richness i didn't think needed before for scovy and games, but maybe need for KCs n leghorns due to growing for production layers nature. my ducklings have started eating feed a lot more but pooping less, and growing steadier stopped trying to eat each other and gulping down wood pine chips and shavings.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I have always used Purina Flock raiser and never had any health issues with any of my flock of chickens ducks or geese.

 

[HSerChickLady]

Thanks. Good to know other people's experiences god and bad.