We have tried about every kind off filtration I have heard of and found the best way to keep the ponds clean is shallow ponds and moving water. We have a300 gallon holding tank with a float switch filled by a shallow well pump the water then is gravity fed to the concrete ponds, the ponds are...
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Here are a few more pics of some of our pens
Thought I would quit with that I took one or two in each pen, sorry about the water spots was kind of raining when I took them mostly breeder pens with one young bird pen.
I will try to post some in the next few days been kind of busy here trying to get ready for winter we are supposed to get a bunch of snow here on turkey day. We dry brood everything even the ruddys not saying right or wrong just how we do it. Our brooder house is 12 X 20 with brooders on each...
Kansaskid, the pond sizes are all different but I say an average is about 6' x 14' with each pen having at least two ponds most have three I will try to get some more pics loaded up in the next few days
We have the Hooded Mergansers, Common Mergansers, and Smew they are on ponds that are about 14 inches deep they still dive under and swim along the bottom. We had them on 3 foot deep ponds before these shallow ones but had to clean them more often they seem to do just as good on the shallow ones...
Seen the pictures looks like a awsome pond, thats what keeps this hobby fun for us after almost twenty years we are still learning and doing things different all of our geese are getting moved to a new pen we built over the summer it has all been seeded and sectioned in to 25' x 25' squares for...
Kanga, we clean them about every six weeks with a bleach solution, they are only about 14 inches deep we started with deeper ones they would get a lot of solids on the bottom by filling them in with the water flowing you can always see the bottom. We clean them because algae builds on the sides...
The water flows 24/7 from a well we have 15 concrete ponds after exiting the ponds it goes into natural pond that is about an acre. This keeps it open in the winter even here in Michigan.