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In need of some Duck coop help!
I used a pond liner with a bottom drain and a couple inches of pea gravel. Hose the poop off with water and the poop flows to the bottom drain and then into a settling tank where it can be pumped to the fruit trees or garden. It can also be flooded so that all the floaty bits like down and... -
Show me your duck ponds
Although not natural looking my setup might give you some ideas. Duck pond connected to a larger koi pond and filtered by a large amount of plants. If you click on my coop in my sig it should direct you to a build thread so you can see how I built it. -
Support Group for Abused Duck Keepers
Spent the day cleaning the duck pen and let the ducks play in the Koi pond. Apparently their pond isn’t big enough! Lol. Poor spoiled little ducks. Gardens gotten a little overgrown and messy since one of my bunnies passed away and there are no longer enough rabbits to keep up with all the... -
Checking-In On Peeps - Post Here To Say Hello!
Checking in! All is quiet over here. The garden is waking up and the ducks are being spoiled with endless water celery again. Anakin loves sleeping in my vest during movie night.- Suprasoup
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How Often Do You Change Swimming H2O?
Having a system that is easy to maintain is a must with ducks as they are such poopers! A large pond like that you’ll want to look into what koi keepers use. Bottoms drains and settling chambers would be high on the list. And PLANTS. You want tons of plants to process their waste. Perhaps... -
Growing cress for ducks?
Cress is perfectly safe for ducks and chickens. I grow it periodically in the ponds stream for the ducks to eat. It’s at the bottom right in the pic. Don’t let it get too leggy as my ducks don’t like the stems as much. -
Fish in duck pond
I never really had much luck growing enough duckweed for the ducks. when the ducks were little I grew some in the stream for them to eat. it has since been taken over by the Water Celery which the ducks much prefer. I still have a little bit of duckweed in the indoor aquarium where I raise... -
Clean Waterer solution?
I’ve always wanted to try raising Welsh Harlequins but I cant get past how hilariously adorable Indian Runners are😀 -
Clean Waterer solution?
Thx! My honey do list was literally. 1. It had to be pretty! 2. It can’t smell AT ALL! So I feel your husbands pain😄 I haven’t had any foot issues with pea gravel. When in their pen they spend most of their time lazing away in the duck pond. They also have a second floor which is level... -
Clean Waterer solution?
The magic is the duck pen which is pond lined and has a bottom drain that drains water to a below ground level catch basin (sump). A water pump in the sump pumps water to the ducks water bucket. The excess flows back into the sump via the duck pens bottom drain. That’s the basics. There are... -
Clean Waterer solution?
I find having multiple water dishes works well. When one gets grungy I’ll clean it and then let it dry in the sun for several days before putting It back into the rotation. This has worked well for the bunnies who go through their 2 gallon water dishes every 3-4 days. The SPOILED ducks have a... -
Duck coop/run floor
Thx for the tips as the welcome! I added my location and my new members intro In the my coop space where some pics of my setup is located. Guess I should have made a build thread In the duck forum😳 Living in the desert I try to be a bit water miserly. One of my main considerations when... -
Duck coop/run floor
My duck pen is pond lined with a drain at the bottom. On top of the pond liner is about 3” of pea gravel. I have a pump on a timer that floods/drains their pen once per day. I spot clean the big poops with a garden hose. Pea gravel drains quickly and dries even quicker. I love it. -
Your duck pools - Tell me about them!
Unfortunately I tossed the drawings a few months back. Regardless I deviated a bit from the design when I started the build. The external pumps inlet is downflow of both the coarse/fine mechanical filter pads as well as the settling chamber. Both the Koi pond and the Duck pond are above... -
Your duck pools - Tell me about them!
I have an integrated setup where the duck pen, duck pond, koi pond are connected. All are pond lined. Total volume of the whole setup is ~2000g. Water from each flows to a below grade sump and an external 3000gph pumps water back to each separately via a spaghettis nest of valves and pvc pipe...