What do you feed your ducks?

[DUCKGIRL89]

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Is that all you feed them?!

 

[DB_Tex]

Yep, Ol Roy High protein plus kitchen scrap greens for treats and free range forage.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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Wow, no real duck food?!

 

[DB_Tex]

Nope, no waterfowl feed. The waterfowl rescue turned me on to it. it was the best way they found to economically feed 200 birds complete nutrition. Their "poop quality" is even better since I got them off layer crumble. Less weird color, less stink, and less of it. Seems like they absorb more of the nutrients completely.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

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Hhmm. How much is a 50 lb bag?

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

Winter - Cracked Corn
All other seasons - Grass, Alfalfa, Clover, Cattail, tiny Mud-faring creatures etc.

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

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Wow, no real duck food?!

Forage is real duck food.

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

Purina Flock Raiser here, plus kitchen scraps and peas, and oyster shell grit. Dog food sounds interesting, I've given the flock dry cat food as an emergency hold-over, but they hardly touched it.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Spring: 16% protien layer pellets, veggies, and oyster shell.
Summer: free ranging, 16% protien layer pellets, and oyster shell.
Fall: free ranging, cracked corn, 16% protien layer pellets, and oyster shell.
Winter: free r an ging, 16% protien layer pellets, and oyster shell.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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Wow, no real duck food?!

Forage is real duck food.

Not much to forage here especially when the ground is rock hard and not an insect ,frog etc in site. so I feed Purina Flock Raiser/ 7 way scratch grains, mealworms, peas, lettuce, cabbage, beets/tops, w/w bread.