Author Topic: food recommendation for 16wk old ducks  (Read 6254 times)

poppy

  • Joined May 2009
food recommendation for 16wk old ducks
« on: September 16, 2009, 12:41:26 pm »
Hi there,

Can anyone suggest where to get duck food online. I have 3 khaki campbell girls who are approaching 16 weeks old. I need to get some layer pellets for them but there doesn't seem to be any in the Smallholder Range of foods.  ???

Poppy

jameslindsay

  • Joined Feb 2009
  • Nr St Andrews, Fife
  • "Blossom" one of my Pygmy Goats
Re: food recommendation for 16wk old ducks
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2009, 12:48:31 pm »
Hi Poppy, you can normally buy them from Pets at Home stores.

dixie

  • Joined Mar 2009
Re: food recommendation for 16wk old ducks
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2009, 12:49:14 pm »
Hi I feed my ducks chicken layers pellets, always have done for years!

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: food recommendation for 16wk old ducks
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2009, 01:59:26 pm »
Hi I feed my ducks chicken layers pellets, always have done for years!
Me too
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

poppy

  • Joined May 2009
Re: food recommendation for 16wk old ducks
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2009, 03:09:43 pm »
Ah that's good news. I will get chicken layers pellets then. No pet stores near me have any food for ducks, so I have had to buy it online.

Thanks guys  :)

dixie

  • Joined Mar 2009
Re: food recommendation for 16wk old ducks
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2009, 04:16:36 pm »
Oh but dont blame us if they start clucking and not quacking!! :o

doganjo

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Qui? Moi?
Re: food recommendation for 16wk old ducks
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2009, 06:34:06 pm »
and laying blue eggs
Always have been, always will be, a WYSIWYG - black is black, white is white - no grey in my life! But I'm mellowing in my old age

little blue

  • Joined Jun 2009
  • Derbyshire
Re: food recommendation for 16wk old ducks
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2009, 08:55:53 pm »
Back to the serious question.... (!) Millbry Hill sell Allen and page duck and goose pellets, I think chick crumbs to layers/breeders. Its under poultry.
Bear in mind the postage is by weight so can get quite expensive when you buy lots of 20 kg sacks!!
www.millbryhill.co.uk
Little Blue

 

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