DO: Feed ducks cracked corn, oats, rice, birdseed, frozen peas, chopped lettuce, or sliced grapes. These foods are similar to natural foods ducks will forage for on their own.
What should I feed ducks instead of bread?
Rather than feeding ducks bread, bird enthusiasts can instead offer them treats like:
- Halved grapes (be sure to cut them in half to prevent choking)
- Cracked corn.
- Thawed frozen peas.
- Barley.
- Oats.
- Birdseed.
- Duck pellets.
What should you not feed ducks?
Bread, chips, crackers, donuts, cereal, popcorn and similar bread-type products and scraps are never best to feed birds. Feeding ducks bread is bad because the food has little nutritional value and can harm ducklings' growth, pollute waterways and attract rodents and other pests.
