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The ULTIMATE list of DUCK Treats and Supplements...
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There are many many food items you can give your ducks other than their feed/scratch/foraging. Giving your ducks treats and supplements to their diets is good for their health, and keeps things interesting for them. They appreciate something new from fourth dimension to time. Treats can be given as often equally daily or weekly/monthly depending your personal needs/schedule/upkeep. My ducks go a few treats daily, (but that's considering they are spoiled rotten
---Whenever feeding a duck anything, make sure they accept access to water for drinking, so they practise not choke.---
I put *stars* next to each item to signify which treats ducks seem to like the almost, based on my own experiments thus far. 1 Star* means this treat is non ever a favorite of ducks, while five stars***** ways nearly ducks really savour the treat. This however is not always the same in every duck, but rather is a guide in helping you chose which treats to experiment with. I encourage all duck owners to experiment with different treats, finding which your ducks relish the most. If a treat has a question marker? next to the name, I'll take suggestions every bit to what the Star* rating should be.
FEEDING DUCKLINGS!
Ducks can eat anything off this list one time they are fully fledged (at around eight weeks former, depending on the duck). Some of these treats can be given to younger ducklings, as early on as the outset week of life, depending on the treat. If the treat can be cut very small-scale and is soft or mushy, a duckling should not have a hard fourth dimension eating it. Bigger tougher foods should be saved for when the duckling gets a footling bigger so there will be less of a choking hazard. Annotation- whenever feeding ducklings a treat or supplement, they should be supervised just in case! Protect your ducklings by watching them whenever they eat something new or something they are not used to. I've put a
Also, as a side notation... Many of these treats can change the way a duck'south poop looks: either in colour, consistency, or odour. When y'all finish feeding your ducks these treats, their poop should become back to normal.
-Feeding color rich foods, (like beets, carrots, cherries, tomatoes, greens etc) volition temporarily change the color of your duck's poop.
-Feeding veggies or fruits with a loftier water levels, (like lettuce) will make your duck's poop waterier than normal. It may seem like diarrhea.
-Feeding dairy products, bananas, rice, etc could make your duck's poop harder and dryer. Your duck can become constipated, and so these treats should be limited. Every bit a proficient dominion of thumb, if it can brand a person constipated, it can do and then to a duck.
-Feeding loftier poly peptide items, (similar eggs, bugs, etc) volition make a duck'south poop aroma worse than normal.
Here are the treats-
Vegetables-
Vegetables can be given to ducks everyday. Veggies with more carbs, similar beans, carrots, corn etc, should be express in order to maintain good health in your ducks. I've known some ducks to become enervating when it comes to veggies and will refuse to eat their feed, so a pocket-sized care for everyday is ameliorate than heaping piles.
Lettuces-****
Romaine, Bib, Butter, Radicchio, etc. Iceberg Lettuce should be given in modest quantities, if at all, due to its low nutritional value.
Cucumber- **
Uncooked, peeled or unpeeled. Chopped upward in small cubes.
Corn-****
Off the cob, cooked or uncooked. Frozen corn can be thawed, every bit an easy to ready care for. A whole corn cob can exist given to ducks to peck at and play with, though some ducks take a hard time getting the corn off of the cob.
Peas- *****
Preferably fresh or frozen/thawed, canned peas tend to have too much salt for birds. Peas tend to be a favorite amongst all ducks and tin be used to assist "railroad train" a duck. I used peas personally to teach my ducks how to utilise their ramp in the pen, and to teach them how to bound up to catch them (for fun). A bag of frozen peas left to thaw in the fridge makes a great easy treat yous can throw to your ducks anytime.
Bell peppers-***
Red, Yellow, Orangish, or Green. The flesh but. Remove the core; seeds, and stem, then chop into small pieces.
Carrots-*
Raw or Cooked, cut into small pieces. It seems nearly ducks do not like carrots very much. However, I did have two ducks that loved carrots.
Beans- ?
Green beans, Lima Beans, blackness beans, Pinto beans, etc. They MUST be cooked and soft (preferably overcooked.) Uncooked beans contain a poison called hemaglutin toxic to birds. Beans have a proficient amount of protein but also have a higher amount of carbs, so beans should be a limited treat.
Broccoli- **
Raw or cooked, cut into smaller pieces. Stems and Tops are both fine for ducks to swallow.
Cabbage- ***
Green, blood-red, or Brussel sprouts. Ripped into medium sized pieces. Raw tends to go over well with ducks, though I accept not experimented with cooked Cabbages yet.
Cauliflower- **
The same as broccoli.
Beets- ***
Cooked or uncooked. Fresh is improve than canned.
Asparagus- ?
Unsalted or seasoned, cut into smaller pieces, cooked (equally they seem to prefer cooked for its texture better.)
Kale- ***
Ripped up in medium sized pieces. Kale tin can be floated in their puddle or water dish. It's also a skillful source of Calcium.
Squash- ***
Butternut, Xanthous, etc. Cooked or uncooked. Cutting into modest pieces.
Pumpkin-?
The flesh can exist cutting upwardly and given to your ducks.
Turnips-?
Cooked only, cutting up in smaller pieces.
Zucchini-***
Peeled or unpeeled, raw, and cutting up in small cubes. If you lot shred and freeze, you lot tin can identify it in a warm bowl of water to brand "soup" for your ducks. This is a great way to get them greens in the winter.
Bok Choy*****
Both leaves and stems chopped
Patty Pan Squash***
The interior of young patty pans with immature seeds are a tasty treat
Beans-Fresh****
Cutting in to pocket-sized pieces or give them the ends and tips when yous trim beans for yourself.
Flowers/plants-***
Marigolds, pansies, grasses, or clover etc (from a florist or homegrown, no pesticides!)
Alfalfa Cubes***
Soak cubes in water until information technology expands. Can exist left in h2o equally a "soup" for your ducks. Makes a good treat during the wintertime.
Some special care for ideas...
A special Summer time treat- (Idea by Soccer Mom)
Add together chopped veggies or fruit to an inch of h2o in a plastic container (i cup to ane quart in size) and place in the freezer. One time frozen, add together another layer of chopped veggies or fruit and cover in an inch of water and freeze. Repeat the process until yous have several layers. Identify in your kiddie pool or pond. Your ducks will accept fun picky out veggies and fruits as they go exposed while the ice melts.
Grow-yer-own treats-
You tin abound a variety of plants for your ducks such as Mustard, dandilion, white clover, grass, sunflower, corn, etc. You can feed them the greens or let them eat the developing sprouts. I besides like to throw their scratch grains in a pot and grow them, the ducks love to consume the sprouting seeds.
Fruits-
Fruit is a smashing care for ducks will savor from time to fourth dimension. Fruit does accept a lot of natural saccharide, (The only blazon of sugar your ducks should Always eat), and then you should limit how much and how ofttimes they enjoy these treats to maintain skilful health.
Tomatoes-*****
All kinds, the flesh only, NO vines/leaves as they are toxic to birds. Chop upward tomatoes into smaller pieces. Grape/ruby-red tomatoes can be easily halved. If your ducks requires a medication in pill class, hiding the medicine in a grape/cherry lycopersicon esculentum half tends to practise the play a joke on to getting them to consume the pill.
Eggplant-**
Fresh or cooked, chopped upward into smaller pieces.
Pears-?
Chopped into smaller pieces.
Apples-***
Applesauce is easier for ducks to swallow. Information technology can be given direct, or mixed with other fruits/veggies. This is a messy treat. Do not feed ducks Apple seeds, they contain some cyanide and fifty-fifty in pocket-sized amounts are toxic.
Bananas-***
No Pare. Cut into smaller pieces, or mashed. If mashed, it can be mixed with other treats.
Peaches- ?
Cut into smaller pieces.
Cherries-?
Seedless cherries merely. It's amend to cut them in half them for easier consumption. Practise not feed ducks maraschino cherries that are in juice. These ofttimes have too much processed saccharide. Blood-red seeds should not ever exist given to ducks; they contain some cyanide and even in minor amounts are toxic.
Grapes-****
Ruby-red or green, halved for easier consumption. You tin can also give them raisins.
Melons-***
Cantaloupe, watermelon, dearest dew, etc. Cut into smaller pieces. Some ducks will eat the rinds of some melons if chopped upward (Like watermelon for example).
Pineapple- **
The xanthous flesh office only, cut up. Fresh, non in cans. Canned fruit tends to have too much processed saccharide.
Mango- **
Mango tin can upset some ducks. Mango can make their throats itchy, the same style information technology can cause some problems in humans. If y'all experiment with mango, cut it up and feed a small-scale amount commencement. Watch for reactions. If your ducks seem fine, then you can keep to let your ducks bask mango.
Pomegranate-**
Open upwardly the pomegranate, and remove the yellowy flesh function. Ducks can swallow the fruit inside. They can eat the seeds inside the fruit besides. This treat should be express, as other seed treats, to preclude impacted crops.
Strawberries- **
Cut into small-scale pieces. They can consume the light-green top, though they ordinarily leave it.
Proteins/Dairy-
NOTE- Protein treats will make a duck's poop odor worse.
Worms/night crawlers/mealworms-****
Live or thawed. Best when your find them yourself in your backyard. (that'south when you "rent" sons, nephews, kids down the street to dig them upward for you) worms from bait shops can have chemicals or toxins in them from farming them.
Crickets- ?
Live crickets tin usualy exist purchased at pet stores, bait shops, and feed/farm supply stores. They can be placed in a kiddie pool or fed to ducks i at a time.
Eggs- ****
Cooked only. Scrambled (with no or very little oil, you can use a Pam spray) or hardboiled, chopped with shells on. The shells are a good source of calcium. You can cook extra duck eggs and requite it right back to the ducks to eat.
Feeder goldfish/minnows/guppies- ****
Live fish can be placed in their pool or water dish. They accept fun chasing them effectually trying to grab them.
Plain yogurt-**
Cascade into a dish. Yogurt can also exist mixed with other chopped upward veggies or fruit. A good source of calcium.
Floating Koi Food-*****
In sticks or ball form (Though my ducks prefer the sticks). Throw into their water dish or pool. Has 30% protein and other vitamins. Tin be purchased at Wal-Mart in a one ane/ii pound dark-green bag that is UV resistant (so it tin can be left outside).
Cat fish Nutrient- *****
Some ducks love cat fish food from local feed stores. It'due south usually in a pocket-size brownish ball grade. They can be floated in a kddie pool or pond.
Cottage cheese-**
Same as yogurt.
Dry true cat nutrient/canis familiaris food-****
Virtually ducks observe cat and canis familiaris bowls full of dry out food irresistible often leaving their dog and cat counterparts hungry. Y'all tin can give your ducks dry out cat/canis familiaris nutrient every bit treats. They normally have a good amount of protein and are tasty for the ducks. If the kibble looks small plenty for a duck tom swallow, go alee and let them savour. I often get true cat nutrient that has several different pieces that are flavored differently and i give my ii ducks a modest handful every other day.
Milk-**
Some ducks enjoy a little drink of milk every now and then. Can be given in a loving cup (it'southward better to hold the cup or place milk in a container they can't knock over). Fat free or low fat milk is ameliorate. All birds are lactose intolerant to some degree, so if you give your ducks milk make sure you only do so in small-scale quantities, as milk tin cause diarrhea.
Poultry-****
I know its sounds foreign, just ducks enjoy a meat care for every now and then. They can have Chicken or Turkey if it'southward cooked to a human being-safe temperature, and information technology's boneless/skinless. The white meat is improve for them. I practice not recommend beef or pork, as the fat content is higher and it'southward harder for them to digest (though my duck Victor did steal a small piece of bacon that was accidentally dropped on the floor, lol).
Starches/seeds-
Again, carbs are a treat your ducks will happily enjoy, but they should be given in small express amounts. Too many carbs can make your duck fat and generally unhealthy. These treats tend to not incorporate enough vitamins or nutrients. Ducks tend to eat carbs first, filling up, and ignoring their feed.
Oatmeal- **
Obviously cooked oatmeal. No flavored or sugared oatmeal.
Rice- ****
Cooked, preferably with more water so it is soft. Leftover white rice mixed with their other veggies tends to be a nice once-in-a-awhile treat.
Potatoes-***
Only cooked potatoes are adequate for ducks. Either smashed or cut in small-scale pieces. Potatoes are a dense starch that can bear upon the ingather and block digestive processes if given to ducks in large quantities.
Spaghetti- ****
Cooked Spaghetti (apparently, no sauce or oil/butter) makes a overnice very limited rare treat for your ducks. My ducks become spaghetti 2-3 times a year, ordinarily as a special treat for birthdays and what not. Brand certain it'due south coked al the style and does not have anything else on it. Sauces and oils/butter take besides much fat and salt.
Plain Crackers- ****
Oyster crackers, saltines, etc. Broken into smaller pieces. Works all-time if thrown by or in water so it'due south easier to swallow. Because of the table salt, these should exist given rarely.
Cereals- ****
Cheerios, flakes, puffed rice, etc. But unflavored and unsugared cereals should be given in small amounts equally rare treats. Works well dry out or in their pool.
Seeds- ***
Some seeds can exist given to ducks, similar Millet or Sunflower seeds, equally a limited rare special treat. While seeds can be used like grit, seeds do non digest well. As well many seeds can touch on the crop and fill with material that can not be digested or passed. Then in that location's less room for good foods and digestive problems can occur. Remember that some seeds, like apple tree or ruby-red seeds, are toxic to ducks.
Supplements-
Below is a list of supplements you tin can give to your birds to promote proficient health or to help with certain health problems. If you know of other helpful supplements, please pm me or respond here and I'll add together them.
Vitamins and Electrolytes-
Comes in a pulverization that tin can be mixed with feed or h2o in a daily or weekly dose. Though most often recommended for ducklings or young ducks, vitamin powders tin be given to a duck of any age. Yous can use the powder equally a daily or weekly supplement, or you can reserve it for ducklings during the first 8-12 weeks, injured or ill birds, or for bear witness birds. Whatsoever duck of whatsoever age will benefit from having vitamins but like a human. Dosing will depend on the make you buy. For my vitamin powder, I add a tabular array spoon to either a gallon of water or approx. 5 pounds of feed.
Dust-
Grit basically is small rocks for your ducks to eat. The grit helps a duck grind upwards it's food in the gizzard. If your ducks free range oft, they volition most probable get all the grit they demand from foraging. If your ducks stay penned up, grit can be purchased at a feed store and given in a pocket-size dish or mixed with their feed.
Oyster Shell-
Crushed oyster shells are an important supplement for laying female ducks. It provides them with calcium necessary for good egg shell production. Without acceptable calcium, a female duck can lay eggs with little or no beat out and could become egg jump (eggs getting stuck inside the duck) and potentially die. Oyster shell can be given in a small dish and then the ducks tin can eat it as needed, or it can be mixed with their feed. If you accept a mixed gender flock (with boys and girls) oyster shell should be given in a separate dish, equally males do not demand the extra calcium. Male ducks and non-laying females should not eat extra calcium from oyster shell because it tin negatively impact their kidneys.
Brewers Yeast-
Brewer's Yeast contains an essential nutrient for ducks called Niacin. Niacin is known to promote overall good health, and to help ducks with leg/foot injures. Niacin too helps cure spraddle or splayed leg in baby ducks. Whatsoever duck with a human foot or leg injury of any kind tin can take Brewer's yeast (either in packets or in crushed up pills) on their food or in their water.
Gro-Gel-
Grow-gel is a powder mixed with water to create a green jelly like substance. Gro-gel contains vitamins and nutrients for baby ducklings. Gro-gel is ofttimes offered past hatcheries, every bit a water and food source for ducklings during the aircraft process. Gro-gel tin exist purchased online or from hatcheries and tin be given to baby ducks for the get-go calendar week of life. Information technology'southward soft and wet, making it piece of cake to eat. Gro-gel is not meant for developed ducks.
Calf Manna-
Calf manna is a type of feed y'all can purchase online or at a feed store. It is Non a primary feed, only rather a supplement to duck's normal feed. Calf manna is a pinkish-orangish pellet, the aforementioned size and shape as regular layer pellets that tin can exist mixed with regular feed. Calf manna is flavored with Anise, making information technology a delicious treat for non only ducks, but a wide variety of animals including horses, cows, goats, pigs, chickens, etc. Calf manna should make upwards no more ane-2% of your duck's feed. If you take a small-scale flock or if you practise not have any other animals and can not obtain calf manna past the pound, buy a larger bag and place the excess in an air tight container in a cool dry place.
Raw Apple Cider Vinegar-
You tin add together a tablespoon to a gallon of water for your ducks when they listing puffy, listless, or won't eat. Information technology helps with mineral and vitamin absorption, kills bad bacteria and promotes good gut flora. It seems to perk ducks up. Just use raw unprocessed apple tree cider vinegar.
HAZZARDOUS OR TOXIC FOODS-
These food items listed below are chancy or toxic to your ducks. These foods can cause severe health problems or death in ducks. Each food has the reason/explanation every bit to why you should not feed information technology to your ducks. If you have given your ducks whatsoever of these treats and did not have a bad reaction, YOU WERE LUCKY. A smashing amount of research has gone into this listing, and then please practice not bombard me with emails/pms maxim these foods are not bad. I DO NOT Make THIS STUFF UP just to be a pain in the behind. Y'all can find research online nigh the hazzards of these foods using google. If you choose to give your ducks any of the foods listed in this section, practise and then at your ain gamble. It is besides important to recall that ducks are prey animals. Their instincts tell them to hide illness and injury to preclude being picked off by a predator. If yous feed, or go along to feed, your ducks the foods listed in this section, you may non see whatsoever problems until a duck seemingly randomly ends up dead with no apparent cause.
Staff of life-
I know we've all seen or take been guilty of giving ducks at parks bread. Bread, other than being packed with carbs and some fat, does not contain any vitamins or minerals in any sufficient amount for a duck. It will brand your duck over weight if fed in big quantities. Breadstuff, though soft, tin go dense in the stomachs of ducks. It as well is tasty so ducks eat information technology upward fast, which can result in the impaction of their crops, which unremarkably requires surgery to ready. An impacted ingather can cause decease! You can assist wild ducks stay healthier past informing people at parks of the negative wellness effects of staff of life.
Spinach-
There is debate about whether or not spinach should be given to ducks. Spinach can reduce the amount of calcium captivated by ducks bodies, which tin can cause egg binding problems in females. Fifty-fifty if you feed your ducks calcium, like oyster shells, eating spinach in large amounts or oftentimes, can hinder calcium absorption, and crusade your ducks to have very fiddling or no shells are their eggs. If a duck has little or no shells on their eggs, they go stuck inside, usually resulting in death. If yous make up one's mind to give your ducks spinach, it should be limited to pocket-size amounts on rare occasions. (mayhap this would be meliorate to practice during the non-laying flavour).
Onions-
Onions cause diarrhea, and sometimes airsickness in birds. It has been found that prolonged exposure tin can lead to a blood status chosen hemolytic anemia, which is followed by respiratory distress and eventual expiry.
Avocados-
Just equally in many other animals, all parts of avocado (Including the tree, bawl, leaves, pits, skin, mankind, etc) are incredibly TOXIC to all birds, including ducks. Avocados can cause cardiac distress and eventual heart failure, leading to death.
Chocolate-
Just equally with many other animals, chocolate is a fatal. Chocolate poisoning first affects a bird's digestive arrangement, causing vomiting and diarrhea. As the condition progresses, the bird'southward central nervous organization is afflicted, first causing seizures and eventually death.
Sugary, Salty, Loftier Fat Foods-
If information technology's non healthy for a human to eat these foods, neither is it good for you for your ducks. Even small amounts of these foods have negative impacts on your duck's health. Anything fried contains far likewise much oil/fat for your duck. Canned veggies contain too much salt. Canned or in-juice fruits contain as well much sugar. Ducks who consume these foods can go overweight and accept wellness issues, and typically dice at younger ages. These are only evidently Non HEALTHY.
Nuts-
Basics are typically too large for a duck to eat considering they swallow their food whole. Nuts can crusade choking. Nuts are too high in fat, and fat is harder to digest than other substances. Nut tin can affect their crops and get stuck in a number of other places in the digestion procedure. A duck that can not eat, digest its food properly, or that can not poop, volition die in a thing of days.
Citrus (lemons, grapefruit, oranges, limes)-
Citrus contains a lot of acid many other animals (and even other birds) can handle. Just a duck'south stomach however can not and digestive problems can occur. While citrus may non kill your ducks, it will cause breadbasket pain (much like acid reflux). If you feeding citrus to your ducks, you may non see any signs of problems because of a duck's nature to hide affliction. This does NOT mean your duck is non in hurting or suffering.
Popcorn-
Other than carbs, salt, and fatty from butter, popcorn is incredibly difficult for a duck to swallow. The kernels tin can become snagged in the esophagus causing choking and abrasions.
Carbonated Beverages-
Other than Carbonated beverages containing sugar and acids that are not skilful for your ducks, the carbonation can KILL a bird very speedily due to the air in the bubbles. Birds are incapable of burping or passing gas from their behinds. The gasses get stuck in the belly or esophagus and can not be expelled, causing an excruciating decease for your duck.
Caffeine and Booze-
I know it seems crazy that anyone would give their ducks coffee or wine, simply it'south worth mentioning. Alcohol depresses the system and caffeine causes cardiac problems.
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Is the spinach thing true in humans besides?
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Here are a few more to add....
Bok Choy*****
Both leaves and stems chopped
Patty Pan Squash***
The interior of young patty pans with immature seeds are a tasty treat
On the zucchini, if you have some shredded and frozen, place it in a warm bowl of water to make "soup" for your ducks. This is a not bad manner to become them greens in the winter.
Beans-Fresh****
Cutting in to small pieces or requite them the ends and tips when you trim beans for yourself.
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Anyone know is Swiss Chard is good or bad? the closeness to spinach makes me wonder...
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Smells really fishy but is 1/3 the price of Koi nutrient at the local feed shop.
I'm thinking it could be thrown into the kiddy pool.
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Fantabulous long listing, Nettie!
Here'due south my offering: When the temperature soars, I make frozen treats. I'll take the quart and gallon sized dispensable containers or tupperware and make enormous ice cubes with treats frozen inside. I do information technology by layers and make a agglomeration at one time.
For instance, add peas and an inch of water and place all containers in the freezer with lids on so they are stackable. In one case frozen, I add a layer of chopped apples and cover in an inch of water and freeze with that layer.
I do this until it's all the way at the pinnacle. Actually, I like to make these with extra greens in the wintertime.
Then when it's roasting exterior, I take a frozen care for and run it under the water to pop information technology out of it'due south container. I float the goody in a kiddie puddle. It keeps the waterfowl cool and entertained at the same time. They relish picking out the treats every bit the "goodie popular" gradually thaws.
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