For ducks - Nutritional yeast with iron?

[Warty Frog]

So I bought this to supplement my 4 weeks old ducks diet. And today I realized that there is a bit of iron in this nutritional yeast. Does anyone know if this is ok? Thank you!!

 

[Crazy Maizie]

Can you tell us what the brand of niacin is? I've never looked at the nutritional make up of the yeast I've given my ducks. From what I can see of the ingredients it looks fine. Is there a reason your concerned? If its due to "hardware disease" that's not caused from nutritional iron, but from ducks actually eating metal which cannot be digested.

 

[Warty Frog]

Thank you for writing! The brand is NOW (also see picture). It has 0.5 mg of iron per 2 table spoon. Thank you!

 

[Crazy Maizie]

Thank you for writing! The brand is NOW (also see picture). It has 0.5 mg of iron per 2 table spoon. Thank you!

That's fine. From what I found, all nutritional yeast has iron content.

 

[CluckerFamily]

The nutritional yeast I used has a little more iron than what yours has and my ducklings did just fine with it.
Is there a reason you are concerned about the iron?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

This source references studies finding that ducks needed between 45 and 85mg per kg of body weight, so yes, that's a perfectly acceptable level of iron for a duck.

 

[Warty Frog]

Thank you everyone for the info! So helpful. I will resume using that bottle of nutritional yeast then!!