I must say I have been guilty of running out of food before. Having to make some of my own homemade duckling food out of eggs, crickets and greens.Yuck! but it worked and seem like they loved it. If my wife would have caught me with the blender there would have been a killing of me AND them ducks! They hatched way earlier than I was thinking. It worked the first 2 days though till I got some feed for the little buggers.