Hi all, I'm excited to share the results of an experiment I did with my poultry. I gave them duckweed from a local stream (half a bucket full, dumped into my private pond), and suddenly, the geese and turkeys started laying again, completely out of season in October. They ate every last leaf. Then I gave my enclosed domestic ducks a mix of aquatic plants (a bucket full) from the local wildlife preserve (duckweed (lemna), Indian swamp weed, water shield, and water meal) and within two days, my domestic ducks' egg production increased by 25%. Googled 'duckweed amino acid profile' and whaddya know, it has a complete amino acid profile, rich in lysine and methionine, which are the two critical ones for egg laying. I learned about this from a video by a southeast Asian farmer who grows azolla (the warm water variety of duckweed) in large bats and uses it to replace 30% of his chicken feed. Duckweed is 35-45% protein, comparable to soybean meal, and yields 6-8 tons of dry matter per acre per year (vs 1 ton from soy).
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Duckweed for increased egg production
Hi all, I'm excited to share the results of an experiment I did with my poultry. I gave them duckweed from a local stream (half a bucket full, dumped into my private pond), and suddenly, the geese and turkeys started laying again, completely out of season in October. They ate every last leaf. Then I gave my enclosed domestic ducks a mix of aquatic plants (a bucket full) from the local wildlife preserve (duckweed (lemna), Indian swamp weed, water shield, and water meal) and within two days, my domestic ducks' egg production increased by 25%. Googled 'duckweed amino acid profile' and whaddya know, it has a complete amino acid profile, rich in lysine and methionine, which are the two critical ones for egg laying. I learned about this from a video by a southeast Asian farmer who grows azolla (the warm water variety of duckweed) in large bats and uses it to replace 30% of his chicken feed. Duckweed is 35-45% protein, comparable to soybean meal, and yields 6-8 tons of dry matter per acre per year (vs 1 ton from soy).
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That is a very interesting result. Thanks. I'm now trying to think where I might find some near by.
As an aside, is harvesting plants in a wildlife preserve allowed where you are? I don't know that it would be here.
As an aside, is harvesting plants in a wildlife preserve allowed where you are? I don't know that it would be here.
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