GOLDFISH in the GARDEN: Growing Duckweed As Goldfish Feed and Chicken Feed

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We are growing goldfish in the garden. Welcome to our homestead aquaponics experiment! In this video, we're talking about an often-overlooked plant that could be a game-changer for sustainable living: duckweed. Not only is duckweed a common wetland plant, but it can also be grown in an aquaponic setup as food for your goldfish. Plus, it can also be used as chicken feed, making it a versatile and valuable addition to any homestead. Join us as we explore the benefits of growing duckweed in your aquaponics system and learn how to incorporate it into your sustainable lifestyle.
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@TheOldSwedesFarm Жыл бұрын

Great tank! Great idea to feed the chickens. Cut your costs and give them nutrition! Win-win!

@HickorycroftFarm Жыл бұрын

It's one of those things that are somewhat within the realm of scalable at the small-scale flock level as an easy-to-grow supplement!

@TheCowEmporium Жыл бұрын

That’s pretty cool actually. We have duck weed that grows in our dugouts most summers. Glen has harvested it to feed the chickens and I seem to remember he said it was a pain but the chickens enjoyed it. The plants in your tanks are quite pretty. Take care, Annette 🌺

@HickorycroftFarm Жыл бұрын

yah it's such a tiny plant that harvesting much of it can be a bit of a pain. That's the problem with a lot of the smaller stuff. It ends up taking more time usually. But it grows fast! Having a pond with it would be helpful (i.e., that's pretty low maintenance).

@DUHOVED_FOR_RELAX Жыл бұрын

*꧁ Faça mais postagens como essa✅🤗 Obrigado 👌 ꧂*

@sylvia4051 Жыл бұрын

Water hyacinth also very nutritious to chicken and ducks Very high protein I would love to grow both 😊

@HickorycroftFarm Жыл бұрын

I have read the water hyacinth is good as feed to, but so far I haven't been able to get it to grow fast enough to really use it much. It's a great plan to have in the tanks, and we did get ok growth in the summer. It would be nice to see if we can scale it up as well, but that may be a work in progress.

@MistressOP Жыл бұрын

Good info, I tell people about duckweed all the time. It's the back bone of our system duckweed and azolla. Also, black solider fly larve can't eat pure Azolla and Duckweed and thrive. They can convert it pure and give you back yield but it isn't as good as mixing duckweed and Azolla into there number feed. Also, dried Azolla and Duckweed can be blended and feed about 20% to mealworms. It can be blended and feed off in a cricket feeed, blended and feed off to cockroaches, and feed straight to worms.

@MistressOP Жыл бұрын

most important crop to the world but no one cares. there are edible breeds of duckweed.

@MistressOP Жыл бұрын

also it can be cooked off and feed to pigs or feed raw mixed into feed. but they go happier if you put it into like a slop

@sarahsapien8847 Жыл бұрын

Cool. I don't know how you can handle so many rabbit holes, Chris. More power to ya though. 😊

@HickorycroftFarm Жыл бұрын

sometimes we can't lol. It's usually a case of as the year progresses, some things become more important, and others go on the back burner. We are really trying to focus on things that are simple and can be left somewhat at times (i.e. when we get busy with other things). and Duckweed fits that bill!

@ph8632 Жыл бұрын

I plan to have an aquaponics system in the future. Duckweed is already planed as a part of it. New subscriber here. Look forward to going through your past videos.

@HickorycroftFarm Жыл бұрын

The duckweed is so simple, but it is effective and so easy to grow! Sometimes it's the little things that are the most important, even if they are not the flashiest :) Good to hear you have an aquaponics system planned! We keep experimenting a bit, trying to see what we can do with the least investment in technology (for lack of a better word for it).

@acdcacres Жыл бұрын

Neat! I had duckweed a few years back and this was a good reminder to get some again. Do you ship? Last time I got from the city, as nowhere locally has.

@HickorycroftFarm Жыл бұрын

We have never shipped duckweed. I'm sure it could be done but would have to be done when it's warmer I would think. Our duckweed came from an aquarium store (actually, we lucked out and got our population from another live plant). It took a little while for it to acclimatize and really get going though, which is funny but now it's up and running pretty well!

@dominicebacher8065 11 ай бұрын

Its literally everywhere, just today I went and picked a liter out of a local pond.

@richardcrossen9480 Жыл бұрын

Q? Do you have to dry it to feed it to chickens? AB

@HickorycroftFarm Жыл бұрын

You don't have to, no BUT from what I understand the water content in the duckweed is really high, so if it's a high component of the chicken's feed, they digest it a lot better. That being said, when we feed it in the winter months, it seems to be much less of an issue given its fresh greens that they are not getting otherwise in their diet at that time. We are kind of treating it for now as a winter supplement only (kind of like eating lettuce for humans in the winter), but if we scale this up a bit we are going to experiment with drying it to see if we can stockpile any amount of it for later winter use. Honestly, both methods seem to have their advantages though, as winter food.