- Dec 27, 2013
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NEVER feed medicated chick starter to ducklings! They eat too much and get too much of the meds! I used nutritional yeast to supplement my ducks. I had 3 that were lame. the Nutritional yeast might have helped some but adding some (a few droppers) of colloidal silver to their food seemed to do the trick for them. 2 recovered completely and the 3rd one is still having issues. Get some non medicated feed!All I have is the flush-free niacin and I have a month old duckling that is pigeon toed and shaky on its legs. I have put it in with the Younger ducklings to keep it warm as they tend to get all muddy and wet outside in their run with the pool. I have been feeding chick starter, the medicated kind because I don't want to have problems with pasty butt and I have pullets. Sometimes I mix it with gamebird and poultry feed that has no corn or soy. I don't want to give all the ducklings higher niacin if I don't have to. But I don't want to separate the poor pigeon toed little duckling from the others. It has been cold at nights so I always bring the ducklings inside where it can get cold but not freezing. The younger ducklings stay inside the warm house in the laundry room.