Duck Pond/pool pictures

[sianara]

I'm in the process of extending my ducks run and would love to see pictures of peoples homemade pool/ponds.

 

[DMFarm]

Here A picture of my pond I built for my ducks and swans. The palms only made it one season the swans ate them.

 

[Hattiegun]

just completed a week ago...

 

[chickensioux]

 

[LALADY1101]

here's ours.....

 

[DMFarm]

It has a skimmer that has filters and also a water fall box that has filters in it. I had to put A UV light to keep the water clear. I drain it once of twice a year.

 

[Matapatos]

Those are some great ponds! Mine is just a small one, 4'X6' and about a foot deep. My mandarins love it though! I have a 1" pipe with a valve to drain it. which only needs to be every week and a half. The recirculating pump keeps it pretty cool and the grass and rocks keep it from getting very muddy! I love it, can't wait to get my split wood ducks this fall! EVERYONE GO TO THE STICKY AND REPORT THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE A STICKY ONLY FOR PONDS/ PENS/ AVIARIES!!!! I would like to see one for wild/ornamental ducks, and another for domestic ducks, but they aren't listening to just me...

This is a view of the drain, it just drains on to my lawn out the hole on the bottom...

 

[70%cocoa]

That duckponics thread is great, but I think that the author said that it did not work in the end. You need a very big biofilter to cope with duck pond water. With a big, well designed filter, it can work.

You would probably not need to run the pump continuously. You can just put it on a timer, maybe draining the pond once a day, with the pond refiling from the growbed/biofilter/reedbad via gravity. That would work fine.

One issue with a duck pond is that it will accumulate a lot of sludge on the bottom. Ideally, you'd have a hose on a timer, pointed into the pond, and just before the drain cycle starts, run water in to the pond to stir up the muck so a lot of it drains away. Then, when the drain cycle is nearing the end, have it squirt water in again to wash out more muck towards the pump.

If you are going to use a sump pump then I woudl not put it in the pond itself but in an actual sump that has the same height as your pond (so the water levels are the same) but that also is deeper than your pond (so it can completely drain the pond). The sump would be connected to your pond via a pipe running from the bottom of the pond and the sump. When the pump comes on it will drain all the water out of the pond and most of the water out of the sump (a pump can't drain right to the bottom, so you'd still have an inch or two of water in the bottom of the sump). The pic below shows what I mean. The biofilter is not meant to be floating in the air, just somewhere a bit uphill from the pond. You'd need the biofilter to drain slowly into the pond, and only when water coming in from the sump pump 'pushes' clean water out the other end. Also, you wouldn't actually need the 'U' bend in the drain from the pond to the sump....you'd just need a drain coming out of the bottom of the pond but then going into the side of the sump at a level lower than the bottom of the pond. Anyhow, here is the picture

 

[Matapatos]

I just took some more pics tonight of the pen and the birds... I'm hoping for a second clutch as the first one was infertile. Hope you like the pics!

This pic is from a little while back. I've chopped the grass since then.

Travis

 

[chickensioux]

Bail and fill, bail and fill, bail and fill, bail and fill...............

Actually, it was very cheap. Those kiddie pools are around $15 and our neighbors gave us their left over landscape bricks. Mulch is free in our area, rocks were found, plants I transpanted from diff. areas of the yard.