Chicken Creeper

I remember, that my grandmother used to cut it and mix it with boiled egg, which was cut into small pieces. She fed young chicks and ducks with it,

Around here, we just toss it into the coop and they go crazy eating it.

It looks a bit like chick-weed , which is quite invasive here , it smells if fresh peas . It can have that white flower ; we used to pick it in the winter in Germany for the guinea-pigs , it used to grow well through the snow . The little animals loved it .

It is Tradescantia fluminensis (Wandering Jew). We also have T. zebrina. It stays very healthy and green all year long. It breaks very easily, so it is hard to get every bit that has a root.