The Quack Snacks Story

Once upon a time….. we accidentally founded a duck food company, fed ducks on television and became a teatime TV quiz show question.

Yes, it does sound a bit quackers. It all started on a random stroll through the park where many moons ago, my mum had taken me to feed the ducks.

There was bread dumped in piles on the floor and around the pool, but little sign of any ducks, just a large flock of geese and a lot of their droppings. Online forums raged about the bread, the geese and the mess, with the local council eventually erecting signs banning the feeding of wildfowl.

It appeared that some possibly well-meaning folk had inadvertently led to the age old joy of going to feed the ducks being banned. It seemed clear that we all either do right by the ducks, or we don’t get to enjoy going to feed them anymore!

A bit of research and a few clicks later and quacksnacks.com was born, with some advice on what to feed ducks that’s better for them than bread and how to feed wild ducks responsibly.

Alas, of the list of alternate things to feed the ducks, some didn’t go down that well with the ducks we visited and many people observed that the likes of prepping some lettuce leaves just wasn’t as quick and easy as grabbing some bread on the way to the park.

What could be more convenient than the ubiquitous bread? How about some pocket-friendly portion packs of nutritious duck food delivered to your door?!

Quack Snacks packs started selling right away and so started a quacking adventure of feeding the ducks on TV with Mike Dilger, appearing in the Financial Times in a feature about cardboard boxes and becoming a question on the ITV quiz show, The Chase.

Founded in 2017, Quack Snacks remains a small team who love going to feed the ducks, on a mission to help others to do so responsibly.

So thank you all for doing right by our feathered quacking friends and joining us on the roller-coaster of life and running Quack Snacks.

Happy quacking.

Andrew @ Quack Snacks

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