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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: northfifeduckling on September 10, 2009, 02:47:35 pm

Title: cooked food for ducks?
Post by: northfifeduckling on September 10, 2009, 02:47:35 pm

So far I've been giving my ducks only pasta, rice, porridge and cooked potato peelings, if we had any left over. Is other cooked food ok for them? I'm thinking spices and salt... :&>

Title: Re: cooked food for ducks?
Post by: sandy on September 10, 2009, 06:33:15 pm

I also give mine pasta and sweetcorn, they have also had some sardines wth bread, in fact the mix looked like my OH tea, I gave it some thought and gave it to the ducks!!!!! THe New foundly chicken took some pasta (spaghetti) from the Ducks mouth ;D be interested to see what else people give thier Ducks!!

Title: Re: cooked food for ducks?
Post by: doganjo on September 10, 2009, 07:00:09 pm

Mine just get their pellets, plus any left over veg, and not good enough to eat veg from  the garden, plus some rice and pasta a friend brings round.

Title: Re: cooked food for ducks?
Post by: becca1401 on September 11, 2009, 10:38:15 pm

My ducks prefer worms to anything else they are given. They do like spaghetti especially in the winter when it is cold but appart from that and my bloody vegetables I am growing nothing else will do!

Title: Re: cooked food for ducks?
Post by: sandy on September 11, 2009, 10:55:55 pm

My chickens love worms and the Ducks love those horrid slugs, they are so repulsive but I go around collecting them from the bottom of the plant pots and under the logs, they catch them and run off to the water!!1