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post #21 of 172
5/9/11 at 8:33am

thumbsup  Looking good. Cant wait for the end result and photos of them in it popcaf

~Nicky~
Mum to 5 Dogs, 2 Cats, 4 Mini Horses, 1 Mule, 1 QH, 5 Goats, 1 Goldfish. I have short fat white ducks and tall skinny coloured ducks, and a few geese And eggs in the bator.
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~Nicky~
Mum to 5 Dogs, 2 Cats, 4 Mini Horses, 1 Mule, 1 QH, 5 Goats, 1 Goldfish. I have short fat white ducks and tall skinny coloured ducks, and a few geese And eggs in the bator.
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post #22 of 172
5/9/11 at 8:33am

That looks soooooo awesome!  You've done a super job and I'm totally gonna steal your idea! lol

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~Dana Kee  {Mooseherder, Moose Manor Farms}

Solo Southern Maryland Homesteading with Pilgrim and American Lavender-Ice Geese, White French Production Muscovy, Welsh Harlequin, Indian Runners, Black Cayuga, Khaki Campbell, & Dutch Hookbill all watched over by a Moose-Mastiff and a Bengal kitty. 
 

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post #23 of 172
5/9/11 at 8:37am

Before i installed a drain in my kiddie pool, i used a sump pump.  If you don't need to drain and refill very often, a sump pump is fine.  With our kiddie pool, it got to be a pain for me to pump it out every day. 

i think your set-up is awesome.  Looking forward to seeing how you will set up your filter.  We have a larger pond form we will be installing at some point and i really wanted to do a skippy type filter for it.   i'm debating also if i should put a drain in it or just count on the filter to work and a sump pump for when we need to drain it.

Colleen
EE, Australorp, Silkies, Showgirls, Bantam Cochin, WCB Polish, D'Anver, Mille Fleur and Porcelain D'Uccles, Bantam Salmon Faverolles, some interesting mixes, Nigerian Dwarf Goats, Persians and Maine Coon Cat, Ducks, and Sebastopol Geese.

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Colleen
EE, Australorp, Silkies, Showgirls, Bantam Cochin, WCB Polish, D'Anver, Mille Fleur and Porcelain D'Uccles, Bantam Salmon Faverolles, some interesting mixes, Nigerian Dwarf Goats, Persians and Maine Coon Cat, Ducks, and Sebastopol Geese.

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post #24 of 172
5/9/11 at 8:40am

What a great idea. I wish I had thought about this before I dug out my pond for my ducks. It would have been so much easier and so much better. Haha! Great job though! wink

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post #25 of 172
5/9/11 at 8:50am
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Enchanted Sunrise Farms 

We have a larger pond form we will be installing at some point and i really wanted to do a skippy type filter for it.   i'm debating also if i should put a drain in it or just count on the filter to work and a sump pump for when we need to drain it.


Put a drain in it. We contemplated just a sump idea and then I was thinking, i don't want to have to suck it all out when I want to clean it, I may just want to blast it with a hose and go from there, so what's one more drain   LOL


DH said he's voting for me being brave and having it done when he gets home.
I said he'd prefer it being running by the time he gets home and if it is, there will be 5 little ducklings swimming in there   lol


His response:
As long as 2 are wild and fly away tonight.

I don't think he realized the 5 ducklings were itty bitty ones, not the 3 ducklets in the backyard already   LOL

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post #26 of 172
5/9/11 at 8:59am
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Originally Posted by TLWR 

DH said he's voting for me being brave and having it done when he gets home.
I said he'd prefer it being running by the time he gets home and if it is, there will be 5 little ducklings swimming in there   lol


His response:
As long as 2 are wild and fly away tonight.

I don't think he realized the 5 ducklings were itty bitty ones, not the 3 ducklets in the backyard already   LOL


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post #27 of 172
5/9/11 at 9:10am

ep wow !!! pop

wife to a wonderful man..
cattle,horses,dogs,cats and chickens ...(two chicken houses that I'm starting to think will never be done: need to add a window and trim)
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wife to a wonderful man..
cattle,horses,dogs,cats and chickens ...(two chicken houses that I'm starting to think will never be done: need to add a window and trim)
sign in avatar "We don't rent pigs" quote from Lonesome Dove (one of the best westerns ever made IMO)

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post #28 of 172
5/9/11 at 1:26pm

Good luck with the skippy filter. I have 6 ducks and ~1100 gallon pond I made for them. It can not keep up. I added a uv filter and pump to it recently and it is keeping it from smelling but it is still green. I'm going to add plants to the filter and give it some more time.

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post #29 of 172
5/9/11 at 1:49pm
Thread Starter 

drain and plumbing for that drain installed.
Can start adding water tomorrow and work on pinning the liner to the top boards.

normal shower drain with a kind of bulk head fitting on back so liner is sealed with silicone to the underside of the drain top and then gaskets and twisted to a tight seal from the underside and then attached into the piping under the pond and out to the other side where here is a ball valve so I can close/open the drain.
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h44/trudy_w/Alabama/Ducks/Duck%20Pond/IMG_4289.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h44/trudy_w/Alabama/Ducks/Duck%20Pond/IMG_4290.jpg

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post #30 of 172
5/9/11 at 7:05pm

I had a setup  like that drain...but you might want to take the  drain grill off. It clogs otherwise and  you will be constantly having to knock the clogs while draining, leaves, sticks, rocks (if they put  rocks in it  like my geese did).  Mine did leak the  2nd year from ground heaving, because I  forgot to  put sand under the pool (it was hardshell).

Caretaker to an Arabian, 2 half Arabians, a donkey,2 rat terriers, a jack Russel terrier ,a cat, , Penciled, Gray & Black  Runner ducks, Dutch Hookbill Ducks, Saxony Ducks and mini-Silkie Ducks.

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Caretaker to an Arabian, 2 half Arabians, a donkey,2 rat terriers, a jack Russel terrier ,a cat, , Penciled, Gray & Black  Runner ducks, Dutch Hookbill Ducks, Saxony Ducks and mini-Silkie Ducks.

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