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It's becoming a bit of a ritual that I take my daughter to feed the ducks at the weekend.

 

I know bread isn't exactly good for them, although it appears to make them happy, but what would be?

 

Bear in mind that this is supposed to be inexpensive. Also bear in mind that I buy lots of fishing bait (particles and pellets) in bulk :D

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Chevin used to be well-known for feeding any available waterfowl in his mates' swims demon demon demon

 

 

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This might be a crazy idea. I don't know.

How about some bird feed??

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I've never been very happy about feeding waterfowl.

Whatever they get fed, it's rarely a balanced diet (usually bread and chips) and whilst there might be plenty of free tourist handouts in the summer, they tend to dry up a bit in the winter leaving loads of half starved birds on the river with no skills to find their natural food.

 

I'll even go so far as to tap any swanns that come looking for a free feed with my rod. Sounds cold hearted and cruel but there are plenty of low life kids with airguns arround here and they'll happily let food conditioned swans come to them so that they can shoot them with airguns.

 

If you're going to continue feeding throughout the winter and the place is public enough to prevent idiots, I'd go with corn and wheat.

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Elton:

It's becoming a bit of a ritual that I take my daughter to feed the ducks at the weekend.

 

I know bread isn't exactly good for them, although it appears to make them happy, but what would be?

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Emz:

Since when was bread not good for them?

 

I always feed them bread and so does everybody else that I've seen feeding them   :confused:  

Put 'feeding ducks bread' into Google and read it at your leisure.

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Andy Macfarlane:

 

Andy Macfarlane:

Since when was bread not good for them?

 

I always feed them bread and so does everybody else that I've seen feeding them    :confused:  

Put 'feeding ducks bread' into Google and read it at your leisure.
Oh wow :(

 

 

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