I am definitely coming around to the idea of the feeder. If you look at the pictures in my links, you'll see I have good area for one.
I have been hand feeding on occasion - plus the kid loves to throw the pellets, but it's not consistent at all. Using a feeder on a timer would certainly help them get trained to the feed. Lord knows, if the ducks see us, they swim like hydroplanes to get to the pellets.
I know I won't be able to get one of the TH ones (my wife would pretty well feed the catfish with my corpse) so I am going to take a look at some of the others and check around for prices on better food.
