Watermelon

[Chick_a_dee]

Can I give my ducks watermelon? It's so hot out and I bought some for the chickens...

 

[rainplace]

My ducks love it!

 

[Chick_a_dee]

Excellent, the ducks are just baking alive even though they're swimming in a cold pool! And the chickens have a fan on and 4 halfs of watermelon, and man the horses are just dying out there. It's 35 celcius today and we have a humidex warning in effect and apparently it's thundering but there is no rain -_-

 

[ducklover15]

My ducks tear it to pieces! They were pretty scared of it at first though! I chopped it up into very tiny pieces until they started getting use to eating it and now I just give them big chunks. Turns their poop pink though.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

I gave the ducks some, but they just look at it and then look at me like "what the heck am i supposed to do with that?" ... it was the same issue i had with spinach, peas, everything. they just don't *understand* what to do with the food LOL.

i left it in the duck house for them anyway.

 

[streemers]

took mine a minute to figure it out but they love it too

 

[DuckLady]

Mine just see me carrying a watermelon rind and I get mobbed.

 

[Wifezilla]

Half of my ducks love watermelon. Two will pick at it. One could care less.

The ducks that love it go NUTS when they see me with a slice.

 

[Brassmaster]

My ducks and chickens love watermelon. The local market will save me ones that get to old to sell. They are still good but maybe getting soft or they came in a little under ripe. I take these home (usually they are cut in half) and put them in the freezer so they will keep. When I put one in their pen they immediately come over and start workin on it. Slowly at first since it is frozen but as it melts, look out. The melon starts flying!

 

[chickabator]

mine wont eat it now cabbage leaves they love tomatoe plants they love any weed but wont eat grass either.we dont have too many garden scraps left all the rain killed ours tomatoes and cabbage worm ate my cabbage bean bugs are eating my bean plants some thing is eating the roots of my pepper plants and cucumbers did not grow. we bought straigt 8 and they look like little balls