Duck pond help.. Pics and tips wanted please

[fireddawg]

I've put my ducks out in the backyard with a duck house and kiddy pool. I think I have everything pretty much down minus the "duck pond" part. The kiddy pool begins to smell after about a week. I have 5 ducks and I'm willing to dig down and do a filtration system instead of just a kiddy pool. Any pictures and tips on a filtration system will be appreciated! thanks!

 

[nchls school]

I've put my ducks out in the backyard with a duck house and  kiddy pool. I think I have everything pretty much down minus the "duck pond" part. The kiddy pool begins to smell after about a week. I have 5 ducks and I'm willing to dig down and do a filtration system instead of just a kiddy pool. Any pictures and tips on a filtration system will be appreciated! thanks! 

Depending on how many ducks you have, you might want to get a filtration system for the kiddy pool. The filter for a small goldfish pond would work. Here, pond systems can be purchased from MENARDS They probably have a site online. I tried the digging a pond and it was a mess. Consider digging your kiddy pool into the ground. I have constructed goldfish ponds that held about 500 gallons of water or more. The filters from MENARDS work well. Menards is like Home Depot, but then you might not have that in California either.

 

[duckets]

Amen nchls school, I've done a couple of the in ground, cemented, rocks around the boarder, low waterfall kinda' ponds also, and they both ended up being huge 'planters', ha. Living water habitats are time consuming and become expensive, because there is always something 'else' needed. And for the most part cats are supposed to be adverse to water, unless you have a fish pond with expensive koi, then you will find they secretly enjoy 'scuba diving'.

Hi fireddawg, and

We have one of those blue kiddie pools for our ducks, and because it's in the low end of their run it can't be lifted and emptied, so I fastened a short section of water hose to the side with a couple of nylon wire ties. One end is submerged in a half circle on the bottom, and the other end is mounted up on the side of the run, ('up' to prevent siphoning).

This end has a quick connect fitting where I hook the garden hose, and each morning I run fresh water into the pool for about 7 or 8 minutes. It becomes crystal clear, and the small amount of residual sand in the bottom is snow white, the over flow irrigates the garden.

It adds about 7 dollars a month to our water bill, although in the winter I only exchange the water every other day or so. You might have restricted water usage in your area of the state, so a filtration system could be your best option, but in warm weather you really need to keep the water changed about every 1 to 3 days to prevent illness.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...vptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_4xbh422lza_b

Note: This is only the filter, you will also need a pump and connecting lines.