Baby Pool alert Pet Smart

[chicken_china_mom]

Aw man, I wish there was a PetsMart near here! I really need a kiddie pool for my mallards! I would have to drive 50 minutes to get to one and my car has been acting up too bad. Darn it.

 

[Mom2Cool]

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It's a sickness really it is

 

[goosedragon]

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I don't know the stores where you are, but in the heat of summer, kiddie pools here are offered by Kmart, Wal Mart, home improvement & hardware stores. Heck even some supermarkets and drug stores have them on the sidewalk out front. They are for KIDS! neither of our pet stores carry them though.

 

[herbandteas]

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When I had ducks we just put some stacked bricks that made it easier for them to get in the pool till they were big enough to hop in.

 

[Chiefs Mess]

I need one for the Lab we have, guess that pool would be a bit small. We take her to the river but with the rain we have had the river is a bit deep and swift.

When you say small what is the cirmcustance (sp)?

 

[cocosandy]

I got one at petsmart for $8...and am using hardware cloth as well.
I wanted to mention that before I had this, I had a dish basin and the ducks were thrilled (I only have 2 babies...and they are maybe like teens now) but I failed to put rocks or something in it and one of my little chicks drowned in it!
So just as a cautionary tale; I lost one of my best chicks of the year a frizzle becaus eit didnt seem at all like any of them could get into the basin! Now I have some rocks so that if a chicken gets stuck and doesnt understand the hardware cloth, it will find an island.

Hardware cloth is the best thing to secure any open areas of your coop with! I use layers of it to keep the predators out. Its also what people bury and put at a right angle round the coop, to keep predators from digging under your bird housing...I highly recommend it; use it for everything!

Oh, BTW, they also have these little pools in the stop and shop here; up above the meat dept....be sure to look upwatds in the big supermarkets. They have these pools. They call them dog pools.

 

[chikky]

I use a kids pool for my 2 call ducks- we put some flat rocks in it so they have a platform along one edge in the pool, then cut a piece of plywood in an arc shape that fits up against the outside of the pool. Propped it up with rocks underneath to give the slope we wanted and put a couple of rocks on the plywood so it doesn't blow away. Ducks like it- one likes to sit on the rocks in the pool and "wash". (rocks are plentiful where I live).

 

[amarook]

That's a great price. I got a small one from Walmart for $10 last week.

 

[LilDucky85]

I got my ducks a small pool from Wal-Mart for $10. My ducks are 2 months old, and I've been letting them swim in our ornamental patio pond. I live off a large natural pond but I'm too scared to let them go off and swim in it still. I've had to help the ducks in and out of the patio pond every swim so I finally bought them a pool they can hop in, and out of. Well the exact same day I buy them a new pool, they learn how to jump into the pond! We put goldfish in the pond, and I don't want them using it anymore. They don't seem to care and run right past their new pool to the other pond. The most use the pool has got since I bought it two weeks ago is my son swimming in it with his cousins, and my baby mallard ducks. I was so excited about the little blue pool too!

Notice the baby Mallards on the left? They're so small!

At least they like my pool...

The chosen pond...

Luckily they've eaten no fish yet

 

[Kim65]

I saw someone use a length of astroturf . . . I was going to try it for the goslings when they are old enough to be in a kiddie pool. I wonder how it is stiff enough to hold a goose's weight after a while, but it seems like it'd hold a duck's weight OK.