Building Duck Ponds

[PhoenixAngel429]

I am looking into getting some ducks and I was wondering if damning a creek would be a good idea? Also can you give me some tips on duck raising as I would be a n00b to it?

 

[bettynoodlees]

I don't know anything about building a dam, but we have a spring fed creek, and my husband just dug a big deep hole along the edge of it (with a backhoe) ... the water comes into the pond on one side and out the other... he didnt do anything fancy, but it sure enough made a pond

I would worry about the legalities of daming something.

 

[AnaD]

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Good idea! I bet that would work for your creek too! That way you are not stopping water but just pooling it in an area.

 

[treldib]

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Definetly. And ethical issues too. Huge ecological chaos accompanied with daming (damning..pretty much) a creek.