What can I feed ducks?

[lamboman100]

A small or big pet store should sell bags of duck feed at reasonable prices, which should be optimized for nutrition. Ducks love bread, but some say it is fattening and un-nutritious.

[minky monkey]

Quackers.

[MaxMX5]

Bread is very bad for ducks, it has no nutritional value for them and it makes them feel full as the bread swells up in their stomach yet provides nothing for them. I used to be able to order a 20kg bag of duck food for 13 of the web however the seller doesn't do deliveries anymore which is a shame. The ducks would love it but you have to feed it to them in shallow water as when it's dry they have a problem to eat it. I would love to have a duck pond in my garden, sounds lovely!

[jmorgan]

We used to get swan and duck food but cannot find it anymore at the pet shops. Use ordinary bird seed. Really despair when someone turns up at the pond and will dump a packet of white sliced out.

[lamboman100]

Duck feed (e.g. floating pellets) is available on Ebay and elsewhere in big bags for about 10 to 30 quid delivered.

Might be worth checking whether they are domestic, semi-domestic or wild ducks and if their diets vary.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Mandown46 said:

As per the title,

I live in a place with a 'hidden' garden, large pond and whatnot, as a result of the duckhouse on the pond,

Bloody Tory MPs. I bet I paid for that bloody duckhouse with my taxes, you bloodsucking sponger!

[EarlOfHazard]

Would brown and/or seeded bread be ok??

[Hugo a Gogo]

no

grains, like corn, wheat, barley, rice, or chopped up veg peelings etc

peas too

normal bird seed either

[Kateg28]

Where I used to live we had a pair of wild ducks who,used to bully me into feeding them. I admit I used to feed them bread. I did some research and went and bought proper food for wild ducks and they refused to eat it and glared at me.

The female used to sit on my sloped lawn and stare at me through the window until I fed her. She also sat on the porch sides (it was like a lych gate) and glare at me if I moved through the house.

If you haven't been glared at by a duck you just don't know how intimidating it can be.

They even recognised my car and used to run across the field when I came home. No idea why they would run, it would have been easier to fly...

Now I have moved, they bully my friend who still lives the other side of the field.

[JohnGBUK]

Feeding ducks bread is fine in moderation. You might say that eating beef burgers is bad for human beings, but eating sensibly it is fine, the same applies. The only danger is if the ducks are in a place where many humans will feed them bread by default.

[C0ffin D0dger]

Honestly what is the world coming too, ducks have traditionally been feed a bit of stale bread at the park pond for years, and they love it.

[untakenname]

White bread can cause the wings to disfigure and prevent the ducks from flying, afaik brown bread is ok.

[Lotobear]

Steve Marriot said it's okay to feed them wth a bun