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Duck feed! |
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By: springerman Date: October 26, 2012, 3:06 pm |
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The age old question of whats best to bring in wild duck to our |
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flight ponds!? I know people still use the traditional wheat |
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and Barley has anyone any other ideas (spuds, apples etc) that |
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are less financially draining in these austere times, i have |
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heard oil seed rape works well, one guy told me he used |
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bananas??? But then he was always a Bullsh@tter!!! Anyone? |
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Re: Duck feed! |
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By: woodcock1 Date: October 27, 2012, 7:30 am |
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I have tried all sorts of standard feeds and found not much |
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difference in any of them. My wifes father grows potatoes for a |
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living and I started about 10 years ago feeding the spoiled |
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potatoes as I was getting them for free (damaged green or rotten |
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ones) I found if they were lying in the water a while with not |
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ducks at them or if I was feeding to many at once they started |
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to rot and pollute the water. I then discovered if I boiled them |
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in a barrel before feeding it stopped them tainting the water |
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and also the duck seemed to be able to eat them much more |
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easily. I ended up with far too many duck so I stopped feeding |
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and the duck still come although in much smaller numbers but |
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plenty for me. So boiled potatoes was my best feed. |
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Re: Duck feed! |
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By: springerman Date: October 27, 2012, 7:52 am |
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Nice one, when we use patotoes we crush them into bit sizes and |
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put a half bag or so in a large freezer, then let them thaw out |
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and put them into the ponds, duck seem to love it as well as the |
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apples! I have seen times when the spuds are completely gone and |
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there is some residual grain left over, proving i suppose they |
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perfer it to the grain! |
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Re: Duck feed! |
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By: monkeyboots Date: October 28, 2012, 3:59 pm |
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ive found no real differance between barley and wheat, i also |
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keep the spud peelings when making chips etc and get family and |
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friends to keep them as well you soon gather up a fair ammount |
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that way, plus they are always gone the next day when we go to |
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feed the pond, |
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