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[–] m_f@discuss.online 33 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I tried feeding frozen peas to ducks in a pond near me. The peas mostly sank below the water immediately, and the ducks didn't seem to care for them anyways. A few of them came over to investigate and weren't interested after checking them out. I might've been doing it wrong, or maybe the ducks just were just too used to getting fed bread.

[–] unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Rolled oats seems to work pretty well. They tend to float and the ducks like them (and it's not bad for them).

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Interesting, when I tried rolled oats the ducks weren't going for them! And a bunch of them sank, too.