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Do ducks eat pebbles

Anonymous

∙ 15y ago

Updated: 11/17/2022

They pick up bits of sand or little pebbles to serve as a grinding stone in there Gizzards. (a gizzard is an enlarged muscle in a duck's stomach, used for churning and grinding up food)

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