interesting find on ducks

[thedoors5to1]

this website i came across has bags of seeds that are food plots for ducks, although i beleive its intended for wild, im sure it would be great for anyones ducks!

http://www.wildlifeseeds.com/foodplots/ducks/index.html#40_lb._PENNINGTON_Duck_Mix_For_Food_Plots

 

[Hennyhandler]

OH WOW that is odd. The bag of seed you mentioned comes from Pennington Seed, the place I work at. IF or WHEN I get ducks I can hopefully get this and at a discount for them. Another pro to getting ducks!!!!!!

 

[CityChicker]

That's awesome! What a great find!

 

[Dances with Ducks]

I came across a site a year or so ago with a similiar product, mostly praising millet for ducks. I bought a $50# bag of millet at my local feed store (inexpensive) and started adding it to the duck's feed. They started having a lot of black stinky poo that attracted flies and I stopped giving it to them! I have that bag still thinking I will try sprouting some of it. Maybe the ducks do better with the unripe seed, as the idea was to provide a forage area for them? Or maybe I got a type of millet that's just not as good for ducks?
Just my own failed experiment.

 

[CityChicker]

I would plant it, DWD. Millet is very easy to grow, at least the type we have tried (White Proso and at least one other). The ducks will love it and it grows really fast as well.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

Do they eat it like greens, nibbling it down to the ground and leaving a dirt patch? Or do they just want the seed heads?
Hmmm . . . now if only I can figure out where I can work a patch of it into my yard . . .