Feeding the ducks
- 15 March 2015 18:38279840At last it is offocial that bread is bad for ducks and pollutes rivers and ponds also attracting rats.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/11471281/Feed-the-ducks-with-frozen-peas-not-bread-says-Canal-and-River-Trust.html - 16 March 2015 10:45279851frozen peas - now there's an idea---------------------------------------------------
Lincolnshire Born and Bred - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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16 March 2015 11:09279852I would have thought laying pellets at this time of year would be the best feed to help produce healthy shells and eggs.
Rats will always look for anything edible, peas and grain as well as bread.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 16 March 2015 12:13279853To my mind the thing is to feed small quantities of the recommended food then if all that is eaten throw some more. Many times I have seen people throw whole slices of bread that is just ignored by the wild fowl.
- 17 March 2015 16:14279889Frozen peas are something I feed to any (rescue) baby pigeons I have.
- 18 March 2015 09:43279926I have sometimes been given wood pigeons shot by farmers, whose insides are full of peas they have nicked from the fields.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson