Water for Ducks
Did you know that in Australia, ducks are farmed without access to open water?
Water is necessary for ducks as it alleviates pressure from their legs and enables them to clean themselves. When denied water, they experience a high level of suffering and develop lameness and diseases. Ducks also require copious amounts of water when they eat. In current conditions, thousands of water birds are trying to access water from small nipple drinkers. Many are unable to reach them due to overcrowding and an inability to stand on their fragile legs, which struggle to support their selectively breed, large bulky bodies.