Duckling Starter Feed Recipe

Feeding high protein high carbohydrate bread products to ducks can also lead to fast growth and twisted bones as the ducklings grow.

Duckling starter feed recipe. Since many feed stores don t carry waterfowl starter chick starter makes a decent substitute. From weeks 3 to 14 i feed a 16 protein grain ration. Chick starter can be used as a substitute with cautions. Shop products books.

Baby waterfowl have two to three times the niacin requirements than baby chicks and chick starter feeds contain too little niacin for waterfowl. And i don t feed stale bread to wild ducks either. Flocks of ducks that have no humans feeding them treats show no sign of angel wing or abnormally quick bone growth. If your choices are a general poultry feed of.

I have changed my program for feeding ducklings to using a flock raiser or higher protein non medicated chick starter ration for only the first two weeks of growth with ducklings. After the duckling is fully grown feed either the flock raiser ration if. There are quite a few homemade chick starter recipes to be found so what i will most likely end up doing is going with one of those recipes or something similar and adding the brewer s yeast. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of make way for ducklings the girls and i made homemade duck feed using the simple recipe below.

Or you can add brewers yeast to their feed at the rate of 1 5 tablespoons per cup of chick feed. Starter feed is very high in protein and shouldn t be fed to ducklings for long if at all due to the risk of angel wing. Some people completely skip the starter and feed their ducklings grower from day one. I no longer feed ducks bread products.

2 cups old fashioned quaker oats 1 cup brown rice 1 bag frozen assorted vegetables peas corn carrots and green beans. Waterfowl feed will likely contain all the correct levels of protein niacin and other important nutrients and vitamins to grow healthy ducklings. Niacin in powdered form vitamin capsules can be added to your ducks water at the rate of 500mg per 5 gallons of water. I ve learned some things since i wrote it.

As ducks only need a starter feed for about three weeks when they are babies and they don t consume a lot it is better to purchase a higher quality feed than a lower quality feed if your local feed store does not have exactly what you want. Ideally baby ducklings should eat waterfowl starter crumbles a blend specially formulated for their growth and development. 200 gr rolled barley 200 gr porridge oats 70 gr sunflower seeds 70 gr pumpkin seeds 70 gr lentils 50 gr wheatgerm 50 gr sesame seeds 20 gr linseed flax seeds sprinkling of dried fruit. The ratio is about 3 pounds yeast to 25 pounds feed or 2 3 cups yeast per 10 pounds of feed.

I ll update it. We recommend a starter feed contain at least 21 protein.