Will boozy barley bring in your ducks?

With the home-bred ducks busy with their test flights, now is the moment to start feeding your flightpond. With luck, some of the families will have parents that visited you last season, so will be only too happy to investigate now. Wouldn’t it be a pity if they found the cupboard was bare?

Be careful, however; food left uneaten can go sour quickly, especially in warm weather. This can make it unappetising, as well as polluting your pond. What you choose to feed has a big influence here and I prefer barley as the staple. I imagine that, as it starts to ferment, it goes kind of beery and the ducks seem to like