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I have to say it's nice to know I'm not the only one who has had this issue. I see all these people on the duck forum with cement ponds and kept wondering how I went wrong.

DON'T DO CONCRETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm probably biased. I did a concrete pond. Biggest pain the rear end I've ever encountered. It leaked. A lot. I started out with standard concrete. Then I put masonry concrete over it. Still leaked. So I had to buy about 10 gallons of concrete sealent and paint...

I got my duckweed from the local pond. Just grabbed a handful and it's like tripled since then.

I'm not an expert but I tried freezing a watermelon for them and it did not go well. I'd say a dry cool place would be ideal for storing pumpkins long term but I could be wrong on that too.

Thanks to all you lovely people I went to the supermarket yesterday and left with a huge box full of throw out produce. My chickens believe they've died and gone to heaven and so do I since it was FREE!

Thank you. I had absolutely no idea. I don't think I'll risk finding out their toxicity and well move them out of the chicken run.

Pictures of what I've been doing and what ya'll inspired me to do. Caged lettuce and tomato. Put the ducks temporary water by it for easy usage. The pot is one of the large pots trees at garden stores come in. Taken from mu parents who have a tree addiction. Rhubarb and parsley in this one...

Plants do awesome. Particularly if you have ducks to fertilize them. If you don't have ducks then just throw in some chicken poo every so often. I have a lot of different varities of pond plants all doing spectacularly without dirt. Some of them I just tied to rocks so they'd sink down...

I did. They really didn't eat it. Most of it went to waste.

I'd get a basic aerator and it won't work in the winter but should be fine spring-fall. I dug my duck pond 3 feet deep because that is the stated minimum for over wintering fish.

I have an excellent way to attract bugs for my chickens. Our barn is full of really ancient horse poo. So hard that I couldn't dig it out with our tractor. It's layers of poo and hay and it's turned pretty much to dirt. I'm finding the hay grows when it's kept wet. Thanks to the ducks temporary...

IMO an aerator is a necessity when keeping fish in a small pond. I've caught a few fish while collecting duckweed and kept them in a temporary holding area while my pond is being finished. Even though I was positive the oxygen level of the water was sufficient I believe the build up of chemicals...

Oh gross. What are those?? It seems to be a moth year for us. I'm wishing our chickens were older so they could catch and eat the moths. Just waiting for grasshopper season now. I'll have very fat chickens when the grasshoppers start taking over our 40 acres.

Anyone posted about ants? We have a huge red ant problem here. I've been digging up the red ant hills and dumping them into the chicken run. The chickens eat the ants. Win win!