Feeding the Ducks

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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    If you're going to feed nature...don't feed them processed shit. Hey duckie....here's some poison....oh happy me!

    http://www.ducks.ca/resource/general/faq/faq2.html#eat

    9. What do ducks eat?

    That depends on the ducks species and life stage. Different species have different diets. As well, ducks often eat different things at different ages, depending on what their bodies need.

    For example, mallard ducks will eat a variety of foods, such as seeds, roots and stems of bulrushes, millet and smartweed, as well as waste grain like barley from farmers fields. Theyve also been known to eat mosquito larvae, midges and mayfly nymphs.

    A different example is common mergansers. These birds usually eat minnows, game fish, trout, salmon and some amphibians.
    10. Ive heard that feeding ducks bread is bad. What should I feed them?

    DUC does not recommend feeding ducks. It increases the chances of negative human/wildlife encounters, reduces the ducks foraging instincts and can make them dependent on people for food.
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    Jeanie wrote:
    You're aware that "feeding the ducks" is a euphemism, right harmless? :p:D

    Having acknowledged that and being delighted to discover that this really is a thread about feeding the ducks, I have to say it's one of my favorite things to do! I used to lived across from a park that had a duck pond and we would always take our stale bread and crusts over and feed them. I love watching them swimming about and diving to catch the bit that got away! And all the quacking! I've even got pics of me feeding the ducks in a little shopping courtyard by St Paul's Cathedral. :) So I'm an International Duck Feeder! :D

    OMG, Jeanie, I didn't know it was a euphemism. :eek:

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  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    If you're going to feed nature...don't feed them processed shit. Hey duckie....here's some poison....oh happy me!

    http://www.ducks.ca/resource/general/faq/faq2.html#eat

    9. What do ducks eat?

    That depends on the ducks species and life stage. Different species have different diets. As well, ducks often eat different things at different ages, depending on what their bodies need.

    For example, mallard ducks will eat a variety of foods, such as seeds, roots and stems of bulrushes, millet and smartweed, as well as waste grain like barley from farmers fields. Theyve also been known to eat mosquito larvae, midges and mayfly nymphs.

    A different example is common mergansers. These birds usually eat minnows, game fish, trout, salmon and some amphibians.
    10. Ive heard that feeding ducks bread is bad. What should I feed them?

    DUC does not recommend feeding ducks. It increases the chances of negative human/wildlife encounters, reduces the ducks foraging instincts and can make them dependent on people for food.

    I don't know about the bread you eat, but mine is not processed.
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  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    I love feeding ducks :D

    I'm lucky enough to have a duck pond next to where I work. I'm often found sitting having/sharing my lunch with the little wing'ed creatures in the summer. We also have a heron and two Canadian geese who visit every year, I've named them Harry, Terwillager and Maureen :o
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    justam wrote:
    OMG, Jeanie, I didn't know it was a euphemism. :eek:

    What's it standing in for?


    Well I've always known it as a euphemism for male masturbation.

    Thankfully this thread is about feeding the ducks in the literal sense. :)
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  • OysterJam01
    OysterJam01 Posts: 29
    The last time i went to the park to "feed the ducks" i ended up getting violently intimidated my a large swam of geese, who appear to have no compassion for ducks whatsoever - the bread i purchased for the outing was used in the end, not to satisfy the hunger of these viscious animals but as a weapon of self-defence, to stop myself getting mauled alive!

    A pastime not recommended . . .
  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Jeanie wrote:
    Well I've always known it as a euphemism for male masturbation.

    I dont get it?:confused:
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    This thread makes me happy to be alive.

    Feeding the ducks/swans/geese/pigeons/squirrels/tuataras is in my opinion one of the few truly life-affirming activities left in this world.

    Oh, and sex.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    reeferchief wrote:
    I dont get it?:confused:

    Ok, I think it has something to do with standing behind the person feeding the ducks. Imagine them sitting on a park bench with the bag of bread in their lap, reaching into the bag and throwing bits of bread to the ducks. The hand action?

    That's the only explanation I got for it reefer but it's a well known euphemism around here. :)
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  • reeferchief
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    Jeanie wrote:
    Ok, I think it has something to do with standing behind the person feeding the ducks. Imagine them sitting on a park bench with the bag of bread in their lap, reaching into the bag and throwing bits of bread to the ducks. The hand action?

    That's the only explanation I got for it reefer but it's a well known euphemism around here. :)

    Ok theres now a voyeristic slant on it, I'm freaked I offiially dont like this euphemism.:eek:
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    wow..they are brazen. I will remember not to go to that park :p
    Cosmo wrote:
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    There's a park near San Francisco where the squirrels have gotten so used to humans (that have been feeding them), they come up and yank stuff out of your hands.
    "Jennifer Packard told the San Jose Mercury about the latest attack. She said she had unwrapped a muffin during a picnic last week in Mountain View's Cuesta Park and had given it to her son, Andrew.

    Quickly, a brown tree squirrel pounced, attacking the 4-year-old and wrestling with him for the muffin. The youngster was bitten and scratched as he ran screaming through the park with the squirrel still hanging onto him as he rolled desperately in the grass to end the attack."

    ref. ( http://www.ktvu.com/news/9946672/detail.html?rss=fran&psp=news )
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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    reeferchief wrote:
    Ok theres now a voyeristic slant on it, I'm freaked I offiially dont like this euphemism.:eek:

    Yeah, I never heard that expression used in that manner before. Bunch of sickos across the pond. Mods, can we impose economic sanctions or something?
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  • catefrances
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    eyedclaar wrote:
    Yeah, I never heard that expression used in that manner before. Bunch of sickos across the pond. Mods, can we impose economic sanctions or something?

    you blokes are so sensitive sometimes... either that or youre repressed. it makes me laugh. :p:D
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  • JordyWordy
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    roar wrote:
    "A duck loves bread but it does not have the capability to buy a loaf. That's the biggest joke on the duck ever."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDPS5VmvqkY

    ducks eat for free at subway!

    god i loved that guy. "See you tomorrow, bring your friends!"
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    they feed them in Scotland and Wales also... ducks arent held captive in Englishville. ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Heineken Helen
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    we don't have ducks :cool:
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  • catefrances
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    Heineken Helen wrote:
    we don't have ducks :cool:

    really? no ducks in ireland. that's weird. what did yous do... eat them all?
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    catefrances wrote:
    really? no ducks in ireland. that's weird. what did yous do... eat them all?
    Nah, the Poles did :(

    Been extinct a couple of years now :( send us one will ya? ;)
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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    catefrances wrote:
    you blokes are so sensitive sometimes... either that or youre repressed. it makes me laugh. :p:D


    I think that is the first time I have been accused of being sensitive. You might need to check the batteries in your sarcasm detector.
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  • YieldInHiding
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    Tony Soprano fed the ducks. :)
    No longer overwhelmed it seems so simple now.

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