The Quack Shack

[Summer_]

Mostly their feed, which they actually eat Now.

I started giving pellets instead of crumbles and they like it much better.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Mostly their feed, which they actually eat Now. I give celery or peas as treats, and we recently got some mustard greens for them (although they don’t really seem to like them).

Ah, mustard greens! - Forgot to list those. My ducks love them and they grow like weed(s). I have about 10 large zip-lock bags in the freezer for them. They like the greens even more when they were frozen. And its good stuff with many anthocyanines.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I started giving pellets instead of crumbles and they like it much better.

The last time i tried to feed them crumbles i got that »you really want to poison us?« look. They outright refuse to eat crumbles. They say that's what the chickens eat!

 

[Summer_]

Ah, mustard greens! - Forgot to list those. My ducks love them and they grow like weed(s). I have about 10 large zip-lock bags in the freezer for them. They like the greens even more when they were frozen. And its good stuff with many anthocyanines.

How small do you give them/cut the leaves, if at all? I cut them somewhat large and they said no. I then cut them small and they still said no

 

[Summer_]

The last time i tried to feed them crumbles i got that »you really want to poison us?« look. They outright refuse to eat crumbles. They say that's what the chickens eat!

I got that look when they saw the bruise they gave me. They thought I was a different person
Mine didn’t eat the pellets for about a week until one day I went in to check on them and it was completely empty

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

Happy truck loading day to me! On a slightly related note, who knows how to make a splint for their three middle toes? My straping has been good but doesn't stay put when trying to put shoes on

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

How small do you give them/cut the leaves, if at all? I cut them somewhat large and they said no. I then cut them small and they still said no

Well, as said i have stuffed the fresh mustard greens as they were into those one gallon zip-bags and just threw them into the freezer in fall. They are now somewhat brittle now and when i break up a portion for the duck's supper bowl the plants break into little bits and pieces which they eat. I make duck-soup every evening in a square planter: Cat Food, Cracked Corn, BOSS, kitchen scraps, and some extra like Cabbage, Kale, Mustard-greens, cooked rice, pasta or bread. Within the soup the ducks eat almost everything.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

I got that look when they saw the bruise they gave me. They thought I was a different person
Mine didn’t eat the pellets for about a week until one day I went in to check on them and it was completely empty

Yes, they can be stubborn, worse than donkeys.

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

They are hesitant with new things. Eventually someone will try a bite then everybody else will join in.

 

[Canadian Wind]

They are hesitant with new things. Eventually someone will try a bite then everybody else will join in.

Spoiler: gross stuff here, Miss Lydia stay out!

Unless it's rabbit guts. They all went insane for those when I was processing the bunnies!