The chickens are having a party. I hauled out a pile of duckweed from the pond. The chickens won’t dive into a pond to gobble up the duckweed like ducks do. But scoop it out for them, and they will devour it all. The duckweed is full of small pond bugs which the chickens like too. Through the summer months, there is an endless supply to feed the birds and fertilize the fields.

• The Charms of Duckweed
• Common Duckweed ~ Texas A&M
• Duckweed: Environmental Star ~ Rutgers University
• Lemna minor (lesser duckweed) and Lemna trisulca (star duckweed) ~ Washington State Department of Ecology
• Duckweed as Chicken Feed ~ Avian Aqua Miser