Best Duck Feed

**sophistacavy** · #1 08-24-08, 03:58 pm

If anyone has pet ducks, which brand of duck food is better: Mazuri, or Purina? I would need to start out with a starter formula, and then move them onto a maintenance or laying diet, depending on which gender out of the 9 eggs that I keep.
Ideally, I want the highest quality all natural duck food out there. I'm not sure whether ducks need a vegan diet(like cavies do) or not, but if they do, then I suppose the protein would come from soybeans, not fish meal? Is there a duck food without corn? I strongly resent feeding corn to my animals, its an unhealthy filler that will probably just make the ducks' poo more runny. As all of us guinea pig afficianados know, corn in pet feed= not so good, probably lower quality feed. Do some apartments let people have ducks(2), or do ducks+apartment=disaster?

Thanks! Quack quack+wheek wheek!

**Ly&Pigs** · #2 08-24-08, 10:21 pm

Ducks are meant to be free in the wild, not domesticated and kept as pets.

ILHoneyandCustard · #3 08-25-08, 01:20 am

Hello there

I live in Australia and i am not sure about the brand of foods you have advertised?

However i do no that my ducks enjoy things like.
Grasses, pond weeds, Small insects (Mine like snails), Some of our table scraps. I don't agree with bread i dont feel it should be given to them pointless callories, Good quality pellet are always a must

.

So in answer to the question are they vegan no from my experiences they enjoy a wid variety of food. This is due to the fact they eat what they can find in the wild and domestic duck are the same thay eat most things.

I higly doubt that a duck would do well in an apartment as they need a large Dam of perminant supply of water to swim in and they can get very messy.

Good Luck i feel they are a good pet

If kept the correct way.

Ly&pigs; every animal was free and wild once most have been demesticated to suit us what is the difference between a duck or a dog or even a guinea pig.

**PixieStix** · #4 08-25-08, 02:42 am

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Originally Posted by ILHoneyandCustard

Ly&pigs; every animal was free and wild once most have been demesticated to suit us what is the difference between a duck or a dog or even a guinea pig.

There are animals that are already domesticated long ago, many people don't think it's fair to try to 'tame' more. Guinea pigs don't exist in the wild like they do as pets. Their closest wild relatives are very, very different from the pet cavy we know. They look and act differently (pigs in the wild don't have fancy coat patterns or hair types), and we're not trying to immitate their natural habitat (you don't see many wild pigs indoors kept in a cage on fleece and fed fruits and veggies).

Dogs, well, my five pound outgoing Pomeranian isn't much like the wolf he descended from. Again, they have been so domesticated to be kept as pets.

With ducks, they aren't a 'pet' so to speak. They are still a wild animal.

I'm sorry, but the part about our pets suiting us sounds very selfish. Since you want a pet duck, you get one even if it's not whats best for the duck?

Up4Breeders · #5 08-25-08, 03:47 am

Domestication : to tame (an animal), esp. by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild.

Im sorry PixieStix but have you seen the difference between a domestic (meat and egg) duck and those in the wild? Obviously the answer is NO. Domestic ducks are breed for the purpose of meat and eggs, larger in stature to there native relatives. On another note do you know what happens when you mate a wild duck with a domestic duck? well can you please look it up and enlighten yourself? So i'm sorry but PixieStix in my opinion your statements hold no value for me.

Up4Breeders · #6 08-25-08, 04:07 am

I forgot to mention, about your pomeranian do you know why it doesnt look like a wolf? It's the same reason we dont look like monkey's, it's called Evolution (and i'm not voicing a religious belief just one that states the facts). Does that mean its right to keep a pomeranian as a pet? Does that make it ethical? Sorry but i dont see how you have different values on what and what shouldn't be domesticated, whats ethical and sorry but your a hypocrite.

**sophistacavy** · #7 08-25-08, 03:55 pm

Lol, sorry if I confused some people, but I'm special ordering 9 fertile Rouen duck eggs from Duck Eggs.com - Find and Buy Duck Eggs Online Easily - Shipped year-round throughout the Continental U.S. Its for my North Carolina Graduation Project. Rouens are a medium breed domesticated duck, that resemble all domesticated ducks' wild cousins, the mallard. Rouens actually look exactly like a mallard, just pretty bigger. If I released them into the wild, they would probably die. Like a siberian husky dog, for example. They are one of the dog breeds that still resembles a wolf and even can have similar traits. But if you released one into the wild (or it ran away) it would die eventually.

Sorry for the confusion! = )

ILHoneyandCustard · #8 08-25-08, 04:17 pm

I totally understood it was demesticated

With us having animals to suit us, it may be selfish but that is what we did with:
wolves-dogs
wild cats -domestic cats
parrots
no different in my point of view but you are intilted to your option even if I dont see how it is justifyed.

It doesnt seem right to say one animal is allowed to be demesticated and otheres not. I understand the pom would not survive in the wild but to get the dog you have now wild dogs had to be demesticated.

**Ly&Pigs** · #9 08-25-08, 04:58 pm

Well, well ILHoneyandCustard, it seems you have resorted to creating a second name to back yourself up on threads now. Having two usernames is against the forum rules. Please pm me with an explanation ASAP as to why you have felt the need to create a new name.

**Luvthempigs** · #10 08-25-08, 06:14 pm

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Originally Posted by ILHoneyandCustard

With us having animals to suit us, it may be selfish but that is what we did with:
wolves-dogs
wild cats -domestic cats
parrots

Many of the animals you are listing domesticated themselves. Cats and parrots found that there was a food source living near humans and gradually moved into the houses. (though in the case of parrots, there is a small percentage still wild caught

)

Dogs were domesticated in a similar way, but with slightly more human intervention.

Why is it sad that they were domesticated? I know my life would have something missing without critters around.

**sophistacavy** · #11 08-25-08, 07:01 pm

Yeah me too, my life would be jobless & lifeless(l o l) w/o critters. I want to be an exotic animal veterinarian.

Up4Breeders · #12 08-26-08, 12:56 am

Ly&Pigs honestly (and escuse the language) what the hell? You think im the same person as that ilhoney or something? Just because we share the same belief? GET OVER YOURSELF, your opinion isnt the only one that matters, your not some king/queen of the world, your word isnt absolute and i dont like it when opionnated pricks like yourself act like your the greatest thing on earth. Get me banned if you want, i joined this forum cause i love animals not to listen to people rant about how other people aren't right.

To quote Fallout boy "thanks for the memories, even though they weren't so great".......Peace

**VoodooJoint** · #13 08-26-08, 07:45 am

Ly isn't the only one that thinks you are the same person. Up4breeders/ILhoneyandcustard, both names are being put on moderated status until an explaination is sent.

**VoodooJoint** · #14 08-26-08, 07:58 am

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Originally Posted by sophistacavy

Do some apartments let people have ducks(2), or do ducks+apartment=disaster?

Ducks and apartments equals disaster.

While I believe there are many strains of ducks that have been domesticated they do not do well in apartment or urban settings. They need a large area to roam and a large body of water to swim in. Keeping a duck in an apartment would be like keeping a horse in a small backyard. It would be cruel and impossible to sustain in a manner that is best for the animal.

I do not believe it is possible to littertrain a duck. Their poop is by nature runny and watery and will completely ruin all of your flooring and furniture.

**sophistacavy** · #15 08-26-08, 07:57 pm

Okie dokie! For now, I'm getting some duck diaper harnesses. They're so cute, and such a great idea. They even have diaper guards. XD
http://www.thegoosesmother.com/id47/html

Oh yeah, I don't have any clue about whats going on with this errr....user incognito situation, but I think that sounds a little mentally unstable 0_0 somehow, feeling the need to back yourself up. I mean, I would back up my friends but not myself. And you can even back up a guy you have a crush on (methodically, of course), but not yourself. Unless you have a crush on yourself.....

**Dr Doughnut** · #16 08-26-08, 10:08 pm

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Originally Posted by Up4Breeders

Ly&Pigs honestly (and escuse the language) what the hell? You think im the same person as that ilhoney or something? Just because we share the same belief? GET OVER YOURSELF, your opinion isnt the only one that matters, your not some king/queen of the world, your word isnt absolute and i dont like it when opionnated pricks like yourself act like your the greatest thing on earth. Get me banned if you want, i joined this forum cause i love animals not to listen to people rant about how other people aren't right.

To quote Fallout boy "thanks for the memories, even though they weren't so great".......Peace

Well, although I don't have your IP addresses (as I am not a mod), you guys have the magical coincidence of you both having bad spelling mistakes. And the same kind. And the same attitude.

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