Is all flock feed of for laying bends?

No problem! Thanks for your help as well.

CalliBee said:

No problem! Thanks for your help as well.

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When I got my ducklings last year I asked about the Nutrena All Flock because a young woman that worked at TSC recommended it as it had 125ppm of niacin (min is 60ppm for healthy ducklings I believe).

At that time, another member emailed them and got the same information. Here’s a link to that post.

I have been raising a KC duckling that is the baby of two of the ducks I got last year on the All Flock with no nutritional yeast supplementation and he/she has been doing well on it with no signs of niacin deficiency (it’s just shy of 4 weeks old now). I have also continued to feed mostly Nutrena All Flock to their parents without issue. I happened on some Swedish blue ducklings at TSC last weekend and got 4 to keep my lonely duckling company. Since they are a larger breed I guess we’ll see how they do by comparison!

Another note is that I can only get the pellet version in my area so I also have to add water to the ducklings feed when they are younger. It’s more work than gravity feeders and could lead to more food waste if you don’t have other birds to eat it as you have to dump left overs every day. I empty whatever food is left at the end of the day into the chicken run so it isn’t wasted.

With that said, nutritional yeast isn’t terribly expensive and my first ducks enjoyed it so it certainly wouldn’t hurt to add it to their feed.