Questions on duck feedings?

[nao57]

So how do you know if you are feeding your ducks enough food?

The books say they need around 5 ounces of food a day, but depends on breed.

One of the challenges I'm having also is that the small non-electronic weight scales for small poundage, its hard to know if its accurate. I have a 0 to 10 lb scale for food; that's what I'm using. And not easy to tell.

Plus, I'm also doing a fodder sprout system where I've sprouted sunflower seeds. Supposedly the videos on youtube are saying you can sprout 1 lb of seed and turn it into 4 or 5 lbs of fodder once its had several days of growing + water + sun etc. But the non-electric scales are kind of funny and I can't tell if its weighing it right?

Plus, I wonder if you guys have had the same questions also?

But it also seems like the ducks would never stop eating and nibble on yard weeds anyway even if I did get them at least 5 ounces of food.

They seem healthy and happy.

I guess I'm just hoping to fine tune things and see how you guys measure out feeds, especially if you grow sprouts to feed them? Thanks.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I do food and water 24/7. They seem to eat less if they know it's always there

 

[nao57]

Do you think the numbers quoted on daily needs in various sources are accurate?

And I wondered also, how much can you deviate from a normal feeding time and still get eggs?

For example; at a commercial farm, they will get the food at say 10 AM, then 2 PM let's say and then dinner. The next day there's no deviation at all. They are able to do it pretty smoothly.

I have a lot of health problems so its hard for me to do that. I have a hard time getting up in the morning.

When you can't hit the same time feeding everyday I wondered how much that will affect egg production?