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Yes, it's a swimming pool for humans. It's an above ground pool. I do have a filter (a small 1000 gph one) and constantly check and make sure the levels of everything are good.

I didn't know whether to post this on this forum or pool maintenance forum, but I decided here. This is the first year we have a pool and the best placement for it was right in front of our fenced in chicken run. I've had a few algae situations and I've noticed it usually starts on the side...

It's hard to tell which ones are laying and which aren't yet. The older ones stay outside the coop. We have 3 nesting boxes and 13 hens. I haven't witnessed them getting kicked out of the boxes, only bullying them in the run, so I just figured maybe that's what's going on. It's only been a few...

We have 6 hens that we've had for a year. Our newest ones just started to lay eggs but we're finding the eggs in the run instead of the nesting boxes which is in the coop. We believe the older hens are kicking them out. Could we just put some milk crates with hay in them in a corner of the run...

I do appreciate everyone's input, although some of these terms might as well have been written in French lol. Proud Redneck, I do understand your setup, but a filter for almost $400 isn't possible right now but I appreciate it. Emptying and refilling is the way to go. It's coming from a well so...

That's been one of the biggest obstacles.....finding a reasonably priced filter that can handle waste from a duck pond. I feel like I have to be a scientist to understand how to keep the water clean and an engineer to understand how filters and pumps work. I've gotten to a point where I'm so...

That's what I figured so I'm just trying to figure out how often. I know he doesn't want to do it more often then needed, but he also wants to make sure the ducks stay healthy. My guess was every 2 to 3 days so I'm trying to find out if there's no need for it to be that often. Maybe he can go...

Thank you so much, but I do have a few questions if you don't mind. How many ducks do you have? How often do you need to clean it? And do you only have to rinse off the filter(s)? In other words, you don't need to keep buying replacements? Note: Not all of the message originally showed so I...

My son has 7 (soon to be 3) ducks that he built a pond for. As usual, he got himself into something without doing research so now it's my job to try to figure out a plan to filter it. From what I've seen, there doesn't seem to be a store bought filter that will do the job well enough. I told him...

I think that's just the way the pic came out because they're not that dark when I look at them. The 2 with the spots on their lower backs have a real quack.

Okay, because one article said that you'll see the difference between 4 and 8 weeks. Here's a pic just to try to get confirmation. The 2 on the left are females, right? For some reason 3 of their heads look a lot darker in the pic then in person.

We have 4 khaki Campbells that are 9 weeks old. It looks like 2 of them are drakes according to their feathers and quacks. Does every drake get a black or green colored head because the 2 that we believe are drakes aren't that much darker (if at all) then the 2 that are females?

This is only the second summer my son is dealing with chickens and he got lucky and only landed up with 1 rooster last summer. With all of these roosters, what could he do with them? Who can he give or sell them to? He's hoping that these are nicer ones, keep one and get rid of the rest...

He has hens but to get 6 roosters isn't the greatest news. I don't understand how these weren't sexed if they're supposed to be able to tell once they're hatched. He has a leghorn rooster and he goes after people once they turn their backs. I call him Lucifer lol.

The one on the right.

I'm sorry, I meant gender. I'm trying to get a pic now.

My son bought 6 leghorns, 6 Rhode Island Reds, and 6 Isa Browns 2 months ago. Only the Isa's were not sexed, but from what I'm reading, if at the time they're hatched they're brown, that means they're hens. If they're white, they're roosters. He got them about a week old and they were all...

They're about 5 months old.

I'll suggest that to my son. Could what they're doing possibly be a sign that the time might be near for them to start laying eggs?

I see them doing it here and there outside, but never inside the coop