What Do you feed your ducks?

[Wifezilla]

I can't get duck food. One place near me had waterfowl feed with 8% protein. What a joke! Since I have quail, the easiest thing to do is to just feed everyone 28% protein game bird feed. The quail get some finch seed as well and the ducks get supplemental greens and all the bugs they can eat

 

[the duck whisperer]

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They only sell it in certain states. Bummer. They only sell in indiana, ohio,michigan,wisconson ect the states with the highest commercial duck farm population, i guess.

but not sure. ill have to look in to it......

 

[coloradochick]

Hey Zilla where do you get 28% gamebird feed at? I haven't even seen gamebird feed around here.

 

[mommyofthreewithchicks]

My ducks are with the chickens and as such they get chicken feed. When they are in the brooder stage I give them niacin in their water. There is one feed store that has the duck feed but otherwise I have to make do with chicken feed or game feed. I also make sure it is unmedicated as the feed stores around me did have the medication that is not good for ducks.

 

[ian4379]

my ducks get a mix of chicken pellets, whole wheat and or crushed maize. there all fit and healthy.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Ok, well my ducks were just born the week before Easter. Making them about 5 weeks old now...what should I be feeding them? I have game bird non medicated and it's about to run out. What is the next thing I will get or will I continue with the same thing. I live near a Southern States and they don't carry Purina...

 

[Wifezilla]

Hey Zilla where do you get 28% gamebird feed at? I haven't even seen gamebird feed around here.

Big R carries it...Nutrina brand http://www.nutrenaworld.com/nutrena/products/poultry/naturewise-gamebird/index.jsp. Not sure if there is one near you. I was also getting a 24% from Colorado Agri Feed. Can't remember the brand though.​

 

[coloradochick]

Zilla I think Murdochs sales this feed. They pretty much have every brand from what I saw. So do you feed the little guys(ducklings) this too or just the over 18 week crowd?

 

[MissusDee]

When I used to just have 3 or 4 mallards at a time, I would buy Manna Pro conditioner, mix it with oatmeal and a couple of other things, and feed greens and such to make it right. They thrived very well that way, and it was a formula given to me by someone who raised waterfowl for over 50 years. Now I have a lot of them, it's chicken feed and peas. Would be too expensive and not efficient with so many to do what I was doing. I buy it at southern states, it's the pelleted chicken feed for layers and broilers. The protein is 16%. That will work for ducks, you don't want too much protein, but if you find it's too high, mix oatmeal with it. I would get it in big containers at the grocery or bulk store.

 

[coloradochick]

What is it that they need so they don't have leg issues? Niacin? Do the feeds have it already or is that why we need to feed greens?