Not to be a buzz kill, but shouldn’t we not be feeding wild animals anything?
depends on if you want them to like you more than you care about ecology
I tried feeding frozen peas to ducks in a pond near me. The peas mostly sank below the water immediately, and the ducks didn’t seem to care for them anyways. A few of them came over to investigate and weren’t interested after checking them out. I might’ve been doing it wrong, or maybe the ducks just were just too used to getting fed bread.
I managed to feed our swans easily some grass i throwed in the water.
The geese are hesitating often but sometimes eat grass. And the ducks only eat grass if either swans or geese already ate because they probably are too bread trainedBut even if the greens go to waste they should not pollute the water compared to bread
Give peas a chance
Peas were always an option.
Thank you for the second panel. I never know what else to give (^_^)
give peas a chance
all those things can be turned into flour though, and subsequently turned into various breads.
Is it the embreadening that causes the issues?
(ok not lettuce, never heard of lettuce bread)
I believe, the problem is mainly white bread, which is what people typically have in mind for feeding ducks.
As opposed to wholegrain, it only retains the endosperm, which is mostly just carbohydrates without many nutrients:
I think, the lack of fiber is also particularly problematic. At least, I’ve heard that it gives them diarrhea, which probably means their guts don’t have time to extract the few remaining nutrients.
Birdseed.
(Bird.)
all we’re saying is give peas a change
