FEEDING YOUR DOMESTIC DUCK
Staple Foods
Pellets, crumbles or mash
Supplements
• Hard-boiled eggs (chopped with shell on)
• Vegetable greens, shredded carrots, tomatoes
• Worms
• Snails and slugs
• Cottage cheese
Treats
• Anything on this list you don't feed often
No No's
• "Junk food" like bread is very bad
• Seeds or nuts
• Fatty, salty or sweet foods
• Chocolate
Acceptable Treats: Scrambled eggs, tomatoes and finely chopped lettuce. Hardboiled eggs are good, including the ones they lay themselves. The eggs are hardboiled, cooled then chopped finely with the shell on. Sharon Demeola heats the shells in the oven until crisp, then grinds the shells into a fine consistency.
Ducks love earthworms, meal worms, slugs, bugs and live snails with the shell on.
Never feed ducks bread, bread products, popcorn, chips or "junk food" that offers no nutritional value. These foods are extremely damaging to your duck. Ducks eat the bad stuff first, ignoring the healthy foods they need.
Seeds and seeded breads are very bad for ducks. Seeds can cause painful digestive problems. Chocolate can be fatal (just as in dogs). Although ducks appear to enjoy treats of almost every variety, junk food causes malnutrition and leads to death in a surprisingly short time. A poorly fed duck will literally drown in its own fat, though you will not notice any outward physical signs. You will however notice sluggishness and aggressive behavior when they aren't eating right. Ducks should eat ONLY their staple food containing the recommended protein levels. Treats from the list are OK, but limit them to a couple times a week or a very limited amount each day. | | Some chicken feeds can be fed to ducks as long as they are non-medicated. Some feed is designed to grow ducks or chickens fast for meat production and may contain medications that can be fatal to baby ducks. Use starter feed containing 20-22% protein. Pellets are OK, but the starter has a better protein level for a growing duckling. You can soak pellets in water until they dissolve into a soupy consistency. Don't give them dry. | Thanks to Liveducks.com for information |
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