duck diet

My pekin and my black runner are a month old today (happy semi-birthday to them!). A few days ago I switched them to Purina duck pellets (grower) after they had been on non-medicated chick feed as recommended by a TSC employee. It didn't take long to find out that chick feed was most definitely...

The other day I caught one of my ducks breaking into the vegetable garden and realised when I picked her up that she was extremely thin. As in her keel was like a knife and every other bone was clearly defined, no fat on her at all." She is fed a balanced diet consisting of pelleted feed...

So the place we got our ducks from suggested we start our ducklings off with chick feed. Well they are getting so big, I was wondering if there is a time im suppose to get them to start eating more mature duck feed, like pellets, or if they are fine eating the chick feed.

I was running out of the smaller, starter crumbles and decided that I was going to try the bigger pellets. My ducks pick them up and then let them drop from their mouths. They are 10 weeks old and I thought they would be old enough to eat the pellets, but was I wrong? Or do they just not like...

Hi, All. Our silver Appleyard ducks have just started laying--well at least one has. We are not doing anything to push them to lay this winter (e.g., no supplemental lights), and the temperatures are just starting to fall with first real freezes expected next week. We have been feeding them...