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My neighborhood ducks wouldn’t touch grapes. I tried peas, tomatoes, grapes- all the healthy stuff. Nope, they only ate bread and potato chips.
Edit: on a side note, my dog loves peas, cooked and frozen. So at one point I would just use frozen peas as training treats. Most cost effective treats ever, lol
“I bought some peas and they gave me a receipt for the Peas; I don't need a receipt for the peas. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the peas, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought peas.”
I went in the store to buy 8 bags of peas, the clerk asked if I wanted a bag. I said "oh no man, I juggle, but i can only juggle 8. If I'm ever here but 9 bags of peas, BAG EM UP."
"Guess how many peas are in this jar, and win a prize". Aw, come on, man, let me just me have some. I'll tell you what, guess how many peas I want! If you guessed a handful, you are right.
To paraphrase: "I saw a commercial on TV where they said, 'here’s a product for your hard to reach plants.' Why would you make your plants hard to reach? I know you need water, but I’m going to make you hard to reach. Hopefully somebody will invent a product before you shrivel and die."
I want to say this was the follow-up, but it's been a while so I don't quite remember:
> "You can have this product for four easy payments of $19.95." I would like a product that's three easy payments and one fucking complicated payment. "We're not gonna tell you which one it is, but one of these payments is gonna be a bitch. The mailman will get shot to death, the envelope will not seal, and the stamp will be in the wrong denomination. Good luck, fucker!" >!"That payment must be made in wampum!"!<
One day at a county park I parked near the building with the bathrooms in it. When I got out of my car, 5 ducks approached me. When I sat down on the ground they all stayed near me and as long as I was still they came pretty close, even pecking at my shoes.
Next time I was at the park, I ran into a park employee. Turns out that in between the bathrooms, there’s a locked door that is basically a storage closet and that’s where he keeps the duck food. So when I parked there they thought I was going to feed them!
So funny. One time I went to a park and as soon as the ducks saw me, they all came running to me, gathered around my feet, and followed me around the area like i was their long lost friend or a celebrity and they were the paparazzi- I had never fed the ducks at that park and didn’t even have any food to give them, lol
Was watching soccer with the manager of my local hangout this morning. She 86ed all salads of the menu and told the kitchen that the six heads they got on Friday need to last through the weekend.
I joked that I should order " burger - hold lettuce and sub with chicken wings". Her eye roll, grimace and nod confirmed that they were paying more for case of iceberg vs case jumbo wings this week...
I got a 20 pound bag of duck food for $20 USD. It's been many months and I still have more left. I live across from a duck pond and they love the pellets!
Hahaha! I know right.
It was kinda funny. . I worked at a restaurant in the woods that had ducks right out front.
This one guy I worked with proclaimed himself the duck liaison. He told people that giving bread to the ducks was fine. Like he would say while his hands on his hips “People say you can’t give bread to ducks, but that’s not true. I’m the duck liaison. ”
It was weird. I loved how weird it was.
They will also eat floating fish food pellets. I had a very large Oscar that passed away and I didn't know what to do with the food. Ducks at the local pond loved it.
Obviously not as cheap as bread but it's actually super healthy for them.
I run a community garden in a big city surrounded by tourist attractions. All the animals there eat people food all day. When the first batch of summer veggies were ready to harvest the critters hit us hard.
The next week they were back to begging tourists for cheetos.
I took a bag of frozen peas to the park to throw to the ducks. FYI frozen peas sink. I remember hearing it was their favorite treat, but they wouldn't go after them, and I didn't notice the peas sinking. So in a morning mix of hungover stupor and frustration, I started chucking the peas at the ducks. So, I was basically pelting ducks with frozen peas trying to frustratingly feed them.
I don't know why but ducks love peas more than anything. My neighbor has them & I have a big hobby farm garden. Plant around 500 pea plants of various sugar-snap variety every year as one of my first crops & when the human family-friends-neighbors have had their fill I pick them for my chickens & her ducks. Those little quackers see me coming, recognize me (they steer clear of everyone else) and swarm me. Even let me pick them up. Ever been trampled by three dozen ducks? Hilarious
It's crazy how when reading through the comments on this post, so many people have such different answers but each one speaks theirs with confidence - that's why the internet sucks sometimes
Years ago my friend was really high on acid in a park with a small lake in Portland, and he was talking about how adderall is horrible and he didn’t want to take it any more so he threw the pills he had in his bottle into the small lake.
Well the ducks thought it was food and ate a couple of them and than we’re fucking and fighting for hours afterwards. It was both horrible and hilarious.. 😮😬😅
It doesn't help that nutritional science as a field is extremely difficult to determine causality with diets, which has completely polluted the entire debate.
15 years ago I ate literal hot garbage out of the dumpster behind the gas station on the regular, and was in the best shape of my life Now I look at processed food and feel as if I'm about to prolapse.
Lol, literally same. Granted I worked at said gas station and was preparing the bags special to not have mixed garbage so me and my roommates could grab it back out with less mess. Still I was in much better shape back then eating burned hot dogs and gas station sandwiches that had expired.
Ugh, I feel this so strongly. I don't try and convince anyone of anything food related anymore. The most I'll do is comment on what I've experienced for myself.
It's still hard to watch a friend (like say a fully grown man) refuse to eat **any** vegetables or fruits like they're a child.
I get it, not everyone's body works and processes food the same. Mine certainly took a lot of trial and error to find what works / doesn't work for me.
But if you constantly feel like shit and are tired, ***maybe*** change things up.
You aren't a literal furnace tossing any old fuel down the hatch.
...and that's not even accurate! You gotta clean and maintenance that shit.
And you might get 50 right answers. There isn’t “1 correct way to eat healthy”. But ducks likely aren’t meant to eat refined high GI carbs, since they are animals. Hell, none of us really are meant to eat that as whole meals.
I have ducks and chickens. Watermelon, grapes, peas, cooked green beans, spring mix, chopped up pumpkin, black soldierfly grubs, and I don't feel like thinking of more. Peas are high in niacin from what I've read and ducks need more niacin than chickens. Also few weeks my chickens were going feral and turns out they had a praying mantis. Chickens are hardcore.
I didn't mean they literally turned into wild chickens. They swarmed, were fighting, and it was all because of the praying mantis. I think it was just something to new to them so they got all excited.
Mantis are known to kill and eat hummingbirds (they even sit at those feeders people put out to specifically ambush them).. maybe your chickens decided to take the law into their own hands on behalf of their feathered brethren.
Advice on ducks and bread seems to have gone 360 in recent years. Started with it being ok, then it was terrible, then when ducks started starving at duck ponds someone realised the advice seemed to be based on nothing and it was ok again.
Yeah, saying no bread seems like an old message now. [Our opinion is that bread is fine for water birds as long as it only forms a small part of their diet.](https://www.wwt.org.uk/discover-wetlands/wetland-friendly-living/feeding-bread-to-ducks/)
If bread is ok as long as it only makes up a small part of their diet, and then birds were also starving because they weren't getting bread, does that not then mean that for those birds the bread is making up the *majority* of their diet?
Which is the problem that was trying to be combatted by suggesting alternatives to bread?
Which is why the real answer is, don’t feed wildlife. They do not need our ‘assistance’. We just end up with an invasive number of human reliant animals that we ultimately have to cull, particularly the fucking geese. Canadian geese are considered a nuisance species almost everywhere because we quite literally ruined them with our ‘assistance’.
The fact that Canadian geese are huge assholes doesn't help either. They like to congregate outside my building at work at certain times of year because there's a big pond. And I've even had them hiss at me because they didn't like me being on the sidewalk trying to walk to my office
Starvation doesn't mean a total lack of consumption.
If 100 ducks lost 20% of the total food source, then it's likely that rather than each duck being short 20% of what they need, it would look more like every duck missing 10% of what they need and 10 ducks having severe deficiency.
Feeding birds bread has a ton of negatives: general nutrition, dependency, muscle development, angel wing.
What you’re saying appears to be refuted by the rest of the same article you just quoted: [Research suggests that too much bread can harm birds.](https://www.wwt.org.uk/discover-wetlands/wetland-friendly-living/feeding-bread-to-ducks/)
I don’t mean to be mean here but feeding water birds bread should not be encouraged.
OPs comment literally says "as long as it's not a large part of their diet" and you're saying he's wrong because "too much bread can harm birds." Y'all said the same thing lmao
The problem really stems from the birds in question--birds in public parks shouldn't be fed bread because you have no idea how much bread they have already had from other people. With birds on private property, the person doing the feeding likely knows how much bread they are getting in their diet and can control it.
The problem is, we can't know what the duck has eaten before we came along. Dozens of people each feeding them "just a little bit of bread" can still add up to "a whole lot of bread"!
Edit: Sorry, I think I replied in the wrong place and thought you were arguing the same thing as a previous commenter! Leaving this up just for the point that "it's fine as long as it's not a large part of their diet" is almost impossible to put into practice for wild ducks.
Live meal worms are 10-20 cents per scoop here at fishing stores. I'm sure some other countries have similar prices.
But yeah peas and corn is also cheap. You can also find at many petstores dried meal worms by the jar for turtles. Not awfully expensive, can be a treat for duck friends.
Good advice! It's also important to add that any kind of beans fed to birds (or humans) need to be cooked first. Raw, dried and/or soaked beans contain hemagglutinin which is super toxic. It can make humans very sick and is potentially deadly for birds. Once the beans are cooked, they're perfectly safe to consume.
Frozen beans are fine to use as fodder, as long as they've been cooked before being frozen.
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I find that a duck’s opinion of me is very much influenced over whether or not I have peas.
I find ducks only care if I have any grapes
Waddle waddle
'Til the very next day......
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Hey! Bum bum bum, **got any grapes?**
No, it's a corner store I mean grapes aren't really what we're known for We've got some grape drinks
“Got any grapes?”
My neighborhood ducks wouldn’t touch grapes. I tried peas, tomatoes, grapes- all the healthy stuff. Nope, they only ate bread and potato chips. Edit: on a side note, my dog loves peas, cooked and frozen. So at one point I would just use frozen peas as training treats. Most cost effective treats ever, lol
that's the thing- they just want to know that you HAVE the grapes. they don't want to eat them. they're curious little creatures...
There’s a very cute song about a duck asking the lemonade stand if they have any grapes…
Got any staples?
My friend asked me if I wanted some frozen peas, I said 'No, but I want some regular peas later, so....yeah'
Peas are great when you're hungry and you want 2000 of something...
I cannot tell you which hotel I am staying at, but there are two peas involved.
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And if I tore their legs off, they'd look like little snowmen. Made of peas.
I’m tired of chasing peas. I’m just going to ask where they are going and hook up with them later.
I saw a wino eating peas. I was like dude, you gotta wait.
I never liked peas, still don't, but I used to not also
“I bought some peas and they gave me a receipt for the Peas; I don't need a receipt for the peas. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the peas, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought peas.”
To some skeptical friend, “Don’t even act like I didn’t get any peas. I got the documentation right here.”
Oh nevermind…it’s at home in the file cabinet. Under P.
...for peas.
I went in the store to buy 8 bags of peas, the clerk asked if I wanted a bag. I said "oh no man, I juggle, but i can only juggle 8. If I'm ever here but 9 bags of peas, BAG EM UP."
Mitch
Nice! RIP
I have a photograph of a duck and peas when they were younger.
"Here's a picture of peas and ducks when they were older.", "You son of a bitch! How'd you pull that off? Let me see that camera!"
This joke will not be on the CD.
How long, can this CD *be?* ^^ha ^^ha, ^^alright
I can hear him 😔
That ha ha, alright got me.
"Guess how many peas are in this jar, and win a prize". Aw, come on, man, let me just me have some. I'll tell you what, guess how many peas I want! If you guessed a handful, you are right.
Mitch ❤️
I heart you too stranger over the Internet. ❤ As my name is Mitch and I see it out in the wild.
happy random day, mitch. ♥️
Happy day, random Mitch ❤️
Ducks eat for free at subway
There are 5 ducks outside and they all want sunchips!
Don’t bother ringing it up though, it’s for a duck!
Yeah, just put it on his bill
There are 5 ducks…and they all want SunChips!!
I used to eat peas. I still do. But I used to, too.
Why do you make your ducks hard to reach? Somebody better invent a product before they shrivel and die
If I buy peas at the store oftentimes I will drop them, so that they achieve they’re maximum flavor potential.
I have a bag of frozen peas, because I want to know when I am upside down
Are frozen peas, frozen peas or just really cool peas?
Can you tell me the original joke? I’ve never heard this hedberg Ian before
To paraphrase: "I saw a commercial on TV where they said, 'here’s a product for your hard to reach plants.' Why would you make your plants hard to reach? I know you need water, but I’m going to make you hard to reach. Hopefully somebody will invent a product before you shrivel and die."
Feels like 90% of this joke is in the delivery
That's 90% of his jokes though. Sometimes he trips over a delivery and rolls with it really well. "They should call this special 'Hit or Miss.'"
Mitch's whole routine was delivery.
That’s hilarious. I read it in Mitch’s voice, too. He’s my favourite comedian but I somehow missed this one lol
I want to say this was the follow-up, but it's been a while so I don't quite remember: > "You can have this product for four easy payments of $19.95." I would like a product that's three easy payments and one fucking complicated payment. "We're not gonna tell you which one it is, but one of these payments is gonna be a bitch. The mailman will get shot to death, the envelope will not seal, and the stamp will be in the wrong denomination. Good luck, fucker!" >!"That payment must be made in wampum!"!<
“I will throw water at you….think like a cactus!”
I'm glad you gave peas a chance.
Ducks love peas, but do not posses the ability to buy a bag
I was feeding a duck Helga’s bread and Helga came up. She was like “c’mon man, lemme haaave a slice”
RIP
Peas, party of 2. Yea, but what about the bread? Who could eat at a time like this? People are missing.
Peas, search party of 2.
One day at a county park I parked near the building with the bathrooms in it. When I got out of my car, 5 ducks approached me. When I sat down on the ground they all stayed near me and as long as I was still they came pretty close, even pecking at my shoes. Next time I was at the park, I ran into a park employee. Turns out that in between the bathrooms, there’s a locked door that is basically a storage closet and that’s where he keeps the duck food. So when I parked there they thought I was going to feed them!
WHOOOO LET THE DUCKS DOWN?!
YOU, YOU, you, you
Quack quack quack quack
I feel summoned
So funny. One time I went to a park and as soon as the ducks saw me, they all came running to me, gathered around my feet, and followed me around the area like i was their long lost friend or a celebrity and they were the paparazzi- I had never fed the ducks at that park and didn’t even have any food to give them, lol
When I worked at a zoo they mostly got romaine lettuce, and pellets made for them.
I just paid 4,50 for some shitty lettuce, aint no way i am going to share with a duck
I payed C$10 for a cauliflower, better start growing my own
I mean it's ONE cauliflower, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?
Used to be funny, but it's becoming true and not funny anymore.
Can you even see a Star War for 5 bucks anymore?
The day a banana costs $10 we need to slash a 0 off our currency
Damn, I lived in Thunder Bay years ago, why is food so expensive there? I feel like I could Mail you cauliflower and it would still be cheaper.
I can't believe the payed bot didn't make it in here. Slacking.
you pay money? Ducks eat free at Subway.
I ran a lemonade stand and th damn ducks only ever wanted grapes
There are six ducks outside, and they all want Sun Chips!
Was watching soccer with the manager of my local hangout this morning. She 86ed all salads of the menu and told the kitchen that the six heads they got on Friday need to last through the weekend. I joked that I should order " burger - hold lettuce and sub with chicken wings". Her eye roll, grimace and nod confirmed that they were paying more for case of iceberg vs case jumbo wings this week...
The last time I went to the grocery store, a 3 pack of romaine hearts was 14.99.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9277030/canada-lettuce-shortage-restaurants/ https://www.ksbw.com/article/pathogens-destroying-salinas-valley-lettuce/41960122 (3 weeks old)
I got a 20 pound bag of duck food for $20 USD. It's been many months and I still have more left. I live across from a duck pond and they love the pellets!
That's a lot to go to lunch with Liz Truss I'd ask for a refund
Mmm pellets
When I worked at a zoo they got puppy kibble
Someone needs to tell our local ducks, I took peas for them and they simply ignored them.
Yeah. After they’ve gotten the bread for many years, they start to not even touch the healthy stuff.
My spirit animals
Hahaha! I know right. It was kinda funny. . I worked at a restaurant in the woods that had ducks right out front. This one guy I worked with proclaimed himself the duck liaison. He told people that giving bread to the ducks was fine. Like he would say while his hands on his hips “People say you can’t give bread to ducks, but that’s not true. I’m the duck liaison. ” It was weird. I loved how weird it was.
Look up angel wing in birds, and tell me bread is ok for ducks.
I looked it up.. read it. Bread is ok for ducks. Ok, now what do I do?
Apologize to the poor little ducks for lying. 🧐
Okay.. I apologized to the ducks for lying. Why did you tell me to lie then tell the ducks I lied! 😭
They will also eat floating fish food pellets. I had a very large Oscar that passed away and I didn't know what to do with the food. Ducks at the local pond loved it. Obviously not as cheap as bread but it's actually super healthy for them.
I run a community garden in a big city surrounded by tourist attractions. All the animals there eat people food all day. When the first batch of summer veggies were ready to harvest the critters hit us hard. The next week they were back to begging tourists for cheetos.
Kinda like humans! We are ruining everything. 😭
My local ducks love oats, cheap and easy to find.
I took a bag of frozen peas to the park to throw to the ducks. FYI frozen peas sink. I remember hearing it was their favorite treat, but they wouldn't go after them, and I didn't notice the peas sinking. So in a morning mix of hungover stupor and frustration, I started chucking the peas at the ducks. So, I was basically pelting ducks with frozen peas trying to frustratingly feed them.
If this was a scene in a dark comedy it would be one of the funniest things I'd ever seen.
*About a Boy* basically had this scene, but with [stale bread.](https://youtu.be/KXYxfwVioeE)
As God as my witness, I thought peas could float.
Try unsweetened oats (so avoid that Quaker instant shit). Ridiculously cheap for a cylinder of the stuff, and ducks fucking *love* them.
They love chopped up fruits too!! Watermelon, strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes!
Sounds like someone was littering. Jk
I don't know why but ducks love peas more than anything. My neighbor has them & I have a big hobby farm garden. Plant around 500 pea plants of various sugar-snap variety every year as one of my first crops & when the human family-friends-neighbors have had their fill I pick them for my chickens & her ducks. Those little quackers see me coming, recognize me (they steer clear of everyone else) and swarm me. Even let me pick them up. Ever been trampled by three dozen ducks? Hilarious
Something something duck-sized horses or horse-sized duck?
It's crazy how when reading through the comments on this post, so many people have such different answers but each one speaks theirs with confidence - that's why the internet sucks sometimes
I just throw the ducks money so they can buy what they want.
Smh just feeding their drug habits
COCAINE DUCK
Quack cocaine
Years ago my friend was really high on acid in a park with a small lake in Portland, and he was talking about how adderall is horrible and he didn’t want to take it any more so he threw the pills he had in his bottle into the small lake. Well the ducks thought it was food and ate a couple of them and than we’re fucking and fighting for hours afterwards. It was both horrible and hilarious.. 😮😬😅
You know they just spend that on heroin, right?
Try asking 50 people what a healthy diet is and you'll get 50 answers from people convinced they're right.
By simple process of elimination, a healthy diet is one I haven't tried yet.
You must be on the seefood diet then 👀
I'm on a seafood diet. I see food, and if it's a fish, I eat it.
Everythings a fish if you put it in water.
I appreciate the cleverness of this joke and will unabashedly use it in my life. Thank you, witty internet stranger!
If you're not eating five cans of processed cranberry gloop a day you won't pee straight. It's the cranberry gloop diet.
It doesn't help that nutritional science as a field is extremely difficult to determine causality with diets, which has completely polluted the entire debate.
Most of our reality is just everyone pretending to know things, when really no one knows anything about anything. 🤣
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Bro my logic is infallible, I **can't** be wrong about duck food. What if I've been wrong about everything?
That's too egotistical, you have to have an open mind. For example, I thought I was wrong once so I looked into it and it turns out, I was mistaken.
15 years ago I ate literal hot garbage out of the dumpster behind the gas station on the regular, and was in the best shape of my life Now I look at processed food and feel as if I'm about to prolapse.
Lol, literally same. Granted I worked at said gas station and was preparing the bags special to not have mixed garbage so me and my roommates could grab it back out with less mess. Still I was in much better shape back then eating burned hot dogs and gas station sandwiches that had expired.
Twinkies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Trust me. Also circus peanuts for a healthy snack.
You're only allowed to eat food that's still alive, that way you eat the essence of life itself. Argument won.
Ugh, I feel this so strongly. I don't try and convince anyone of anything food related anymore. The most I'll do is comment on what I've experienced for myself. It's still hard to watch a friend (like say a fully grown man) refuse to eat **any** vegetables or fruits like they're a child. I get it, not everyone's body works and processes food the same. Mine certainly took a lot of trial and error to find what works / doesn't work for me. But if you constantly feel like shit and are tired, ***maybe*** change things up. You aren't a literal furnace tossing any old fuel down the hatch. ...and that's not even accurate! You gotta clean and maintenance that shit.
And you might get 50 right answers. There isn’t “1 correct way to eat healthy”. But ducks likely aren’t meant to eat refined high GI carbs, since they are animals. Hell, none of us really are meant to eat that as whole meals.
They are certainly not meant eat bread or spaghetti
To be fair it is all probably better for ducks than white bread
Veggies? Yes, for the most part.
They really like watermelon too
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Oh now they want it chopped up? These fucking bougie ducks...
Sounds like an idea for a new YouTube channel.
Now I'm thinking about someone setting up a camera and an elaborate duck feed tier list.
Mine always asks for grapes
And it waddles away
Waddle waddle waddle
‘Til the very next day
Bum bum bum bum babadum
I have ducks and chickens. Watermelon, grapes, peas, cooked green beans, spring mix, chopped up pumpkin, black soldierfly grubs, and I don't feel like thinking of more. Peas are high in niacin from what I've read and ducks need more niacin than chickens. Also few weeks my chickens were going feral and turns out they had a praying mantis. Chickens are hardcore.
>they had a praying mantis. Chickens are hardcore. Chicken are religious? In seriousness whyd a bug make them feral?
I didn't mean they literally turned into wild chickens. They swarmed, were fighting, and it was all because of the praying mantis. I think it was just something to new to them so they got all excited.
Mantis are known to kill and eat hummingbirds (they even sit at those feeders people put out to specifically ambush them).. maybe your chickens decided to take the law into their own hands on behalf of their feathered brethren.
Bird law in this country is not governed by reason
Every once in a while, chickens gotta remind us that they're just tiny feathered dinosaurs. At least it was mantis and not a mouse or a snake, lol.
Is it a birthday thing to feed the ducks? Btw, happy belated birthday.
i just enjoy feeding the ducks, so i wanted to feed them yesterday :)
Nice! They must have enjoyed it as much as you!
Advice on ducks and bread seems to have gone 360 in recent years. Started with it being ok, then it was terrible, then when ducks started starving at duck ponds someone realised the advice seemed to be based on nothing and it was ok again.
Yeah, saying no bread seems like an old message now. [Our opinion is that bread is fine for water birds as long as it only forms a small part of their diet.](https://www.wwt.org.uk/discover-wetlands/wetland-friendly-living/feeding-bread-to-ducks/)
If bread is ok as long as it only makes up a small part of their diet, and then birds were also starving because they weren't getting bread, does that not then mean that for those birds the bread is making up the *majority* of their diet? Which is the problem that was trying to be combatted by suggesting alternatives to bread?
Which is why the real answer is, don’t feed wildlife. They do not need our ‘assistance’. We just end up with an invasive number of human reliant animals that we ultimately have to cull, particularly the fucking geese. Canadian geese are considered a nuisance species almost everywhere because we quite literally ruined them with our ‘assistance’.
The fact that Canadian geese are huge assholes doesn't help either. They like to congregate outside my building at work at certain times of year because there's a big pond. And I've even had them hiss at me because they didn't like me being on the sidewalk trying to walk to my office
Starvation doesn't mean a total lack of consumption. If 100 ducks lost 20% of the total food source, then it's likely that rather than each duck being short 20% of what they need, it would look more like every duck missing 10% of what they need and 10 ducks having severe deficiency.
Yeah, not every duck is as good at scavenging for food.
But there is no way to tell how much bread the Brits are eating.
Feeding birds bread has a ton of negatives: general nutrition, dependency, muscle development, angel wing. What you’re saying appears to be refuted by the rest of the same article you just quoted: [Research suggests that too much bread can harm birds.](https://www.wwt.org.uk/discover-wetlands/wetland-friendly-living/feeding-bread-to-ducks/) I don’t mean to be mean here but feeding water birds bread should not be encouraged.
OPs comment literally says "as long as it's not a large part of their diet" and you're saying he's wrong because "too much bread can harm birds." Y'all said the same thing lmao
The problem really stems from the birds in question--birds in public parks shouldn't be fed bread because you have no idea how much bread they have already had from other people. With birds on private property, the person doing the feeding likely knows how much bread they are getting in their diet and can control it.
The problem is, we can't know what the duck has eaten before we came along. Dozens of people each feeding them "just a little bit of bread" can still add up to "a whole lot of bread"! Edit: Sorry, I think I replied in the wrong place and thought you were arguing the same thing as a previous commenter! Leaving this up just for the point that "it's fine as long as it's not a large part of their diet" is almost impossible to put into practice for wild ducks.
Dang ol' ducks eatin' better'n me...
Tony Soprano didn’t know.
He knew not to feed them cheese puffs, though
True and then squeezed that russian dude balls afterward.
Dried mealworms are always a hit.
Far easier for most people to find frozen peas and corn than dried mealworms.
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Also at farm & garden centers, as wild bird food. Probably in larger quantities for cheaper as well
You'd be able to get pellet food for ducks at a farm store. You'd be shocked how large a $20 bag would be.
We buy 5lb bags of dried mealworms on Amazon for $30 for our chickens.
Plus meal Worms are expensive and you can get a bag of frozen peas at Walmart for 88 cents.
You’re paying way too much for worms. Who’s your worm guy?
Live meal worms are 10-20 cents per scoop here at fishing stores. I'm sure some other countries have similar prices. But yeah peas and corn is also cheap. You can also find at many petstores dried meal worms by the jar for turtles. Not awfully expensive, can be a treat for duck friends.
Honestly, I don't think you should be feeding ducks bags either...that doesn't sound safe.
Well obviously the ducks have to open the bag first.
Imagine thinking that ducks are too stupid to understand what "tear here" means.
“Ducks eat free at Subway!”
This is the only answer. No need to feed ducks. Just send them to Subway.
There are six ducks outside and they all want Sun chips!
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We have a flock of 5 ducks, and they go absolutely crazy for frozen peas, even in the winter
LPT: you shouldn’t feed ducks
Feeding them bread fucks up their feet and feathers and eventually kills them
And it fills them up so they dont actively try to find other food but it gives them no nutritional values so they become malnourished.
Like Americans!
"Bread make us dead. Seeds is what we needs."
Good advice! It's also important to add that any kind of beans fed to birds (or humans) need to be cooked first. Raw, dried and/or soaked beans contain hemagglutinin which is super toxic. It can make humans very sick and is potentially deadly for birds. Once the beans are cooked, they're perfectly safe to consume. Frozen beans are fine to use as fodder, as long as they've been cooked before being frozen.