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Hoimo@ani.social 2 months ago
Why is bread bad for duck, but cooked rice good? Isn’t that basically the same thing? Bread is wheat, water, bit of salt. Cooked rice is rice, water, bit of salt. Or can’t ducks handle gluten?
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Birch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A duck scientist, or a duck scientist? Either way you’ll just get a quack
bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If we were talking jackdaws, I know a guy.
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Bread is filling and high in carbs, but has little nutritional value. When ducks eat bread, it tastes good and it also encourages them to fill up on it, which can lead to protein deficiency iirc. Also ducks with diets low in certain vitamins develop a condition known as angel wing, which renders the wings unusable due to excessive feather growth (too heavy for young ducks’ wings; developing wings are bent outwards due to weight).
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
When ducks eat bread, it tastes good and it also encourages them to fill up on it, which can lead to protein deficiency
Looks like I’m a duck
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The_v@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which is why a lower protein (spring/fall) koi pellet is a bit better. They also absolutely love it.
That’s why I have to chase the female mallard duck out of my koi pond every spring. If she gets some of the koi food she makes a nest and raises babies.
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Sounds like she knows how to seize a good opportunity lol
Animated_beans@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve heard that they eat more grains if the rice is uncooked and uncooked rice expands in their stomachs causing pain and other problems
Rednax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I looked it up, and bread has about double the amount of carbs as cooked rice, which is probably what is making bread bad.
Probably a rice-only diet would also be bad for them, but nobody brings them tons and tons of rice, while everyone throws them a ton a bread.