Okay, let me get something straight...

[animalloverabh]

..Bread is bad for ducks, isn't it? Because me and my dad have just had a row over it. He says that people have been feeding ducks bread for thousands of years without ducks being hurt, but thats not true, is it? They have been shortening their lifespan, right?

 

[chickensioux]

People have been feeding bread to ducks in parks forever BUT that doesn't mean it's right. http://birding.about.com/od/birdfeeders/a/feedingducksbread.htm

Have him read this. It explains why not to do it.

Giving bread to your ducks on a rare occasion won't kill them as long as they are getting fed a nutitional diet everyday.

 

[animalloverabh]

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Thanks! May i ask what is considered to be a nutritional diet?

 

[pascopol]

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Your dad is right.

 

[animalloverabh]

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Your dad is right.

Now im confused.

 

[chickensioux]

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Your dad is right.

Now im confused.

Your dad is NOT right. Perhaps pascopol misread your post. Do some research you will find many websites like the one I gave you and none that will state otherwise.
It is true that people have fed bread to ducks forever, like I said BUT they are not hanging around the parks to see the damage they are doing.

http://www.liveducks.com/care.html

Here is a healthy diet.

 

[desertdarlene]

Bread is not bad as long as it's only given once in a while as a treat and the ducks have a regular diet of healthy duck food. It's not to be given to them every day and all day long like what happens when you go to a park. At some of the lake parks I go to, people feed them bread all day long every day and it's not healthy at all. You'll see ducks and geese at these parks with all kinds of health problems because of it.

 

[animalloverabh]

Thanks everyone! So is it safe to say that my dad can give them bread like, once a month?

 

[chickensioux]

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Giving them bread as a treat once in a while is fine as long as their main diet is a healthy one. I have a goose that needs meds daily and I put it in 2 very small bread balls. It is not enough bread to disrupt his daily diet.

 

[animalloverabh]

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Giving them bread as a treat once in a while is fine as long as their main diet is a healthy one. I have a goose that needs meds daily and I put it in 2 very small bread balls. It is not enough bread to disrupt his daily diet.

Okay, thank you.