A source for organic duckweed to be used as a feed supplement?

Date sort Score sort
Mrs. Fluffy Puffy

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy

Fluffy Feather Farm
12 Years
Jan 26, 2010
16,007
244
456
Texas, Panhandle
Hey there!

I'm attempting to switch all my birds off commercial feed(s) and instead feed them as naturally and cost efficient as possible. I am already growing wheat-grass for them, and they love it. But I would like to grow another source of fresh greens for them. I've looked around, but haven't been able to find a source for organic duckweed seeds. Does anyone know of a place that sells them?

Blessings -

~ Aspen
 
I'm not telling you to forget it so to that end I offer the following link.

http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/avian/feedingchickens.pdf

However, cost effective and complete nutrition would be nearly impossible without providing a prepared poultry ration.
The economy of scale work against us. We may be buying grains by the 50# bag and vitamin/mineral supplements by the pound. Feed mills buy grains by the trainload and supplements by the ton.
You won't get the essential amino acids they need without an animal protein source or synthetic (not natural) amino acids like the feed mills do to supplement the AAs in grains and legumes.

If you can provide the nutrients in the correct ratios in the following links that chickens have been proven to need from natural sources, please share your findings. Not providing all the nutrients they need will at the least lower optimum productivity at best, cause nutritional deficiency health problems at worst.

http://extension.missouri.edu/p/G8352
http://www.ag.auburn.edu/~chibale/an12poultryfeeding.pdf


I add the following link since you are in a warm climate.
http://www.be-troplive.be/betroplive/pdf/20121205_944831251_4 brigitte maass.pdf
 
Organic 'certification' issues aside, is there really something all that wrong with going to a local pond/lake and scooping up a starter batch of duck weed to grow from? I know it's not certified 'organic' but at the end of the day it's likely as organic as most organic stuff as long as the pond is not situated in the middle of a conventional farmers field and getting pesticide run off...
 

Similar threads

MaryKK
    • Like
The Girls Have gone Off Their Feed!
Replies
9
Views
894
ShrekDawg
ShrekDawg
E
    • Like
Chicken won’t eat unhulled barley or sprouted peas
Replies
7
Views
2K
PoppasGrill
PoppasGrill
Incukahlan
    • Like
Need Some Help With Fermented Feed Issues
2 3
Replies
21
Views
5K
My Very First 6 Chickens
My Very First 6 Chickens
Peter_Rabbit_Farm
    • Like
    • Haha
Thoughts on organic chicken feed. What is your opinion?
8 9 10
Replies
92
Views
16K
arazla
arazla
CandeeLand
    • Like
Homemade Flock Block
Replies
5
Views
1K
BatTikvah
BatTikvah

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom