Besides ducks- what else ya got?

[Kevin565]

Ok so guess it's not a natural trickle. The people that lived here before were very thorough. It looks like an under ground pipe that leads away...think septic tank kinda thing... like a leach field I guess? Is that even good? See how much I know! But there is a seasonal creek nearby but it's the neighbors. Even if they can't utilize the pond fully we still be offering them fresh kiddie pools 2 times a day. It's habit now. (when I say offer I just mean clean it for them twice a day). And our soil is quite rocky. So it drains well over there.

That is defiantly a perk. It will help keep ammonia levels lower but PH may be a little unstable.

If we fill the pond up and then turn off the water for a week it drains a lot. That is good for the ducks right...that the water moves that fast?

Oh yes for ducks that is perfect!

 

[veronicasmom]

My pets:
Doberman
Greyhound
2 Cats
A chinchilla
2 Guinea pigs
2 Nigerian Dwarf goats
1 Haflinger
1 Standardbred
2 English spot cross rabbits
7 ducks ( hoping to get some more soon)

And a fish tank

 

[zooweemama]

That is defiantly a perk. It will help keep ammonia levels lower but PH may be a little unstable.
Oh yes for ducks that is perfect!

Oh good. I was getting nervous. I'd hate not to be able to use the pond. All our neighbors say this house + property used to be the cats meow. Of course we picked it up for a fraction of it's former worth and it was quite rundown and tired by the time we got it. But the guts of the property are solid- just needs some tlc. I can tell they used to have ducks and loved them. The pond was obviously made for them in mind...it even was built with a gradient so the ducks can walk down into and it's a stones throw from the coop that was built just feet from the main house. There is a tired rundown chicken coop too. We have't decided if we will tear it down and start over or try to utilize it. We've been city folks up until now so we are really enjoying all this!

 

[zooweemama]

My pets:
Doberman
Greyhound
2 Cats
A chinchilla
2 Guinea pigs
2 Nigerian Dwarf goats
1 Haflinger
1 Standardbred
2 English spot cross rabbits
7 ducks ( hoping to get some more soon)

And a fish tank

Awww Dobie! We have a Rottie and he is a one dog kinda dog. But when he passes on, we will be getting some Dobies. My hubby grew up with Dobies. His dad liked to rescue them and rehabilitate them and keep them for pets.

 

[Kevin565]

You should defiantly at minimum be able to use it for the ducks. I would really suggest reading this thread: (It's rather long but worth it)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/146829/the-duck-ponics-experiment-raising-minnows/190

She has a school of Minnows that reproduce rather often which means more free food for the ducks

 

[PetesMom]

We have:
1 pekin girl
2 jumbo pekin girls
3 muscovies (1 drake 2 hens)
1 Chocolate runner girl
2 American buff geese (1 gander and 1 goose (I think....I HOPE lol)
4 Buff Orp chicks (3 hens 1 roo)
6 red sexlink hens thanks to my 3 year old winning a coloring contest for agway
2 dogs (a boxer and a lab)
2 Flemish Giant rabbits
4 baby rabbits, 3 weeks old (rehoming when old enough)
2 Boer goat wethers

I THINK that's it LOL

 

[Kricket638]

4 pekin and 15 ducklings, 2 dogs, a rabbit (thinking of breeding him) and 2 daughters (ages 2 & 4). Hoping to get some chickents and still trying to convince hubby to let me get some geese.

 

[zooweemama]

You should defiantly at minimum be able to use it for the ducks. I would really suggest reading this thread: (It's rather long but worth it)

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/146829/the-duck-ponics-experiment-raising-minnows/190

She has a school of Minnows that reproduce rather often which means more free food for the ducks

I am marking this for my night time reading- thank you!!! My kids are homeschooled so they LOVE every aspect of all the farming/homesteading we've been doing. We don't just 'do' we also research and read and they learn so much! And the pond is their favorite hang out! It's pollywog city down there right now!

 

[hdowden]

what about adding gold fish from a pet store after treating say about a week of treating for any parasites and then waiting another week in clean chemical free water then adding to the ducks water, think the ducks would like that?

 

[Anatopism]

Lets see if I can organize my zoo.... and let me put right here at the start... the dog alone takes more work than most of the other pets combined.

(snakes)
Somewhere around 100 ball pythons including the 20something eggs currently in the incubator. Several girls to lay soon too. My boyfriend and I breed them, and are intending on making it our sole form of income some day. Several have names, but most do not.
1 Coastal Carpet Python named Rousseau
1 Dumeril's boa named Rosy
1 Mangrove Cat Snake named Dr. Dre (He was surrendered to a vet we work with, with the name Brad Pitt... but I kept forgetting which celebrity name the snake had... since several other snakes they were talking about also had celebrity names.. so I renamed it Dr. Dre)
2 Western Hognose named Mr. and Mrs. Hognose

(tarantulas)
1 King Baboon named Kony
1 Mexican Red Rump named Margaret Thatcher
1 Chaco Gold Knee named Castro

(birds)
1 Vosmaeri Eclectus female named Evelyn
1 Senegal Parrot named Normandy
2 Indian runner Ducks (Chocolate and Blue)
3 chickens (Buff orpingon, I THINK a SL Wyandotte, but not sure yet.. and an unidentified, unsexed bantam)

(cats)
1 Lilac point siamese named Rukia
1 tabby-somethingorother named Ichigo

(dogs)
1 lab/heeler mix named DJ
1 lab/pit mix named Roman.. who is technically our roommate's dog, but that we more or less take care of for her.

(feeders)
1 Old rotting stump used to hack off pieces to feed termites to the tarantulas, ducks, and chickens
1 colony of turkistan cockroaches for additional income and bird/spider feeders
1 colony of dubia cockroaches for the same reasons
3 racks full of breeding rats to feed to the snakes and to sell the nice/pretty ones as pets