Dyertribe Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 58 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said: There is no known case of a fish ever getting angel wing, so that proves bread is safe to eat. Dunno about humans though... White sliced bread is a well known cause of bingo wings in humans as eny fule nos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Bob Posted August 22, 2018 Report Share Posted August 22, 2018 8 hours ago, rusty69 said: Is that @Dr BobDonald, gone to duck-heaven (his oven)? Nah, high density polyethylene non rubber ducks don't eat bread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassman Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 I feed our ducks and swans with 'fruity nuggets' rabbit or guinea pig food pellets. A one and a half kg bag costs only £1.69 and £1.89 respectively from our local B&M store. Much cheaper than bags of so called duck food you buy from the canalside shops. The wildfowl go mad for it and it must surely have more nutritional value than bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 10 hours ago, Dyertribe said: White sliced bread is a well known cause of bingo wings in humans. What sort of ailment is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Rose Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 I'll have a look for those next time I'm in B&M. For a while we used floating fish food pellets from Poundland but stocks were erratic so we decided we needed to conserve what we have for our fish pond. All the birds loved them though and, not surprisingly, they float well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athy Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 12 hours ago, ditchcrawler said: Why feed them in the first place An excellent point to which there is, for much of the year, no logical answer. In winter, when there's frost and snow on the ground, many birds cannot gain access to their habitual food, it's helpful to supplement their food supply. For the rest of the year, er....in my case, I put food out for our garden birds all the year round because I like seeing the birds and because my parents did, so I was brought up thinking of bird-feeding as normal behaviour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer McM Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 Catching Anatidaephobia must be very scary for narrowboat dwellers. ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NB Esk Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 17 minutes ago, Jennifer McM said: Catching Anatidaephobia must be very scary for narrowboat dwellers. ? Yep, must be frightening, never fear tho' there is a antidote, it's called Getagripaphobia. Never fails.....? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuthound Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Jennifer McM said: Catching Anatidaephobia must be very scary for narrowboat dwellers. ? The ducks and swans near me suffer from cynophobia, because if they come close to my garden Zeus chases them away. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynophobia Edited August 23, 2018 by cuthound Missing worm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Bob Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 7 hours ago, Jennifer McM said: Catching Anatidaephobia must be very scary for narrowboat dwellers. ? I've got a duck watching me all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtB Posted August 23, 2018 Report Share Posted August 23, 2018 This seems an appropriate point to wheel out the 'all ducks are wearing a dog mask' thing..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackrose Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 On 22/08/2018 at 12:28, mrsmelly said: People and their kids have fed bread to ducks for ever. The countryside is not littered with dead ducks and swans. People will continue to feed birdies with bread. Gimmicks come and go. Of course many ducks will be gluten intolerant innitt ? But now the world has many more people feeding the birds and consequently in some busy places there's been a big rise in numbers of ducks, geese and swans. Go to Windsor on a sunny weekend - the human overpopulation is feeding the overpopulation of birds and the water looks like bread soup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassman Posted August 24, 2018 Report Share Posted August 24, 2018 There is also the issue of vermin it attracts. Many a time I've seen folk throw slice after slice of bread into or beside the water, and sometimes a whole loaf. There's far too much for the wildfowl and the rats feed on the leftovers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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