Question about duckfood

[Loopeend]

For that Dutch Indian runner ducks website I'm making.

There is no such thing as food for babyducks over here, and we have some expensive adult duck food, but I never use it since my ducks feed themselves from my yard (mainly worms/snails/small insects, and they get nutritients from dabbling in mud), and get acces to adult chicken mix for extra hunger, but they rarely eat from it, mainly only when it's freezing a few bites a day. They also get mealworms as treat daily.

When young we usually give them baby-chicken mix, and some egg-yellow the first 3 days. The weaker ones some more. Then that baby-chicken mix with a few dried mealworms mixed in it untill they fully go outside and get adult-chicken-mix.

They seem to thrive perfectly on it. They are not too fat or too thin and healthy and active.

But, not every-one has a garden where the ducks can find their own food. So I'm stuck now what to suggest as a good diët. The most Dutch people have a smaller garden and more tiles in it. Should I suggest that waterfowl pellets?

 

[casportpony]

Can you get Mazuri in the Netherlands?

Contact them in Denmark

Brogaarden

• Sobredden 27DK-2820 Gentofte Denmark
• +45 39 65 18 80

 

[Loopeend]

Can you get Mazuri in the Netherlands?

Nope.

 

[casportpony]

Nope.

Call

Brogaarden

• Sobredden 27DK-2820 Gentofte Denmark
• +45 39 65 18 80

 

[Loopeend]

Call

Brogaarden

• Sobredden 27DK-2820 Gentofte Denmark
• +45 39 65 18 80

Why? Haha.

I just want to advice people that want to get Indian runners on the right food. That food has to be easy accesible for Dutch people. So the best food that is commonly available. Which is mainly all kind of chicken-mixes, floating waterfowl pellets, and mealworms. I'm not planning to sell duckfood

Edit: Who knows, maybe in the future. But at this moment it is important to have some food information on my website a.s.a.p. with the now available food in stores.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I feed my grown up ducks the »Meatbird Crumbles« from the local farm-store, some cracked corn and treats like meal-worms, kale, (iceberg) lettuce, tomatoes, … .
Those crumbles are for chickens, but the ducks are doing fine with them. The same here, during the warm months they stay almost untouched in the feeder as the duckies are foraging for insects and weeds (they are really good in weeding out those pesky tomato plants…). My ducks hate scratch grain! They pick out the Corn and throw the remaining grains all over the place, i use the scratch grain now to fill up the bird-houses…
So, Chicken Food plus treats to provide some extra protein is sufficient for grown up ducks.
But its a different story for ducklings! They need way more protein and Vitamins than what is provided in Chicken Mixes. I was lucky to secure two bags of this:

At my local farm store for my Spring Ducklings. They carry this stuff only in spring. Ducklings need protein, protein and protein to grow super fast. Maybe Chicken Food plus ground up meal-worms would be an option in the Netherlands. Or Crumbled eggs?
For the vitamins, especially Niacin, i have ordered 200 grams of Niacin at Bulksupplements.com - i don't know if they deliver to Europe. But it is available on eBay.de (Is there an eBay.nl?): https://www.ebay.de/itm/NIACIN-Nico...ab7d1e8ab:m:mEKfpFWmccTbQZeSD5c1oSQ:rk:1:pf:0
Don't you have farm stores in Holland?

 

[casportpony]

Why?

If they will ship to the Netherlands then people don't need to worry about buying a feed that meets the requirements of ducks.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

OK, there is ebay.nl and you can buy duckling stuff there:
https://www.ebay.nl/itm/Niacin-Powd...a1bfa98b7:m:mOX7OveIZl7HpLftnE33mEA:rk:4:pf:0

https://www.ebay.nl/sch/i.html?_odk...40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Eend+feed&_sacat=0

 

[Loopeend]

I feed my grown up ducks the »Meatbird Crumbles« from the local farm-store, some cracked corn and treats like meal-worms, kale, (iceberg) lettuce, tomatoes, … .
Those crumbles are for chickens, but the ducks are doing fine with them. The same here, during the warm months they stay almost untouched in the feeder as the duckies are foraging for insects and weeds (they are really good in weeding out those pesky tomato plants…). My ducks hate scratch grain! They pick out the Corn and throw the remaining grains all over the place, i use the scratch grain now to fill up the bird-houses…
So, Chicken Food plus treats to provide some extra protein is sufficient for grown up ducks.
But its a different story for ducklings! They need way more protein and Vitamins than what is provided in Chicken Mixes. I was lucky to secure two bags of this:

At my local farm store for my Spring Ducklings. They carry this stuff only in spring. Ducklings need protein, protein and protein to grow super fast. Maybe Chicken Food plus ground up meal-worms would be an option in the Netherlands. Or Crumbled eggs?
For the vitamins, especially Niacin, i have ordered 200 grams of Niacin at Bulksupplements.com - i don't know if they deliver to Europe. But it is available on eBay.de (Is there an eBay.nl?): https://www.ebay.de/itm/NIACIN-Nico...ab7d1e8ab:m:mEKfpFWmccTbQZeSD5c1oSQ:rk:1:pf:0
Don't you have farm stores in Holland?

That's how I do it now too indeed. Mix some eggyolk/mealworms in it.

 

[Loopeend]

OK, there is ebay.nl and you can buy duckling stuff there:
https://www.ebay.nl/itm/Niacin-Powd...a1bfa98b7:m:mOX7OveIZl7HpLftnE33mEA:rk:4:pf:0

https://www.ebay.nl/sch/i.html?_odk...40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Eend+feed&_sacat=0

Dutch people don't use ebay. You need a credit card for it. And we don't use credit cards.

I might next year by myself some good food in big, to sell to people that are getting the duckling from us. And/or sell some spare on the website.