Duck Pond/pool pictures

[jdywntr]

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I did the exact same thing except no silicone. It was cheap and easy to do. I also recommend this. I've seen some other pvc drains but most were plugs and I wanted something in the ground. I'm waiting til the end of summer and hoping the large $30 kiddie pool at walmart goes on clearance.

Much bigger than my $6 pools. I know the birds will LOVE it.

 

[shella]

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i will be using a bath but i want to bury it and then put something in the tub so my ducks can get out.
well my idea is to use the plug hole and attach a PVC tube and have that tube leading out into the ground
( my garden is on a majer hill) and have a PVC tap
attached so you can drain it.
i am hopping to drain it into another tub and then filter it and have a pump to return it back to bath tub
hope that made sense.

 

[70%cocoa]

Shella, that does make sense. I think that all of it would work very well except you will need a pretty good filter setup to get the water clear enough to return to the swimming pool. The best filter would be a biological one - i.e. a reed bed. You could have the reed bed uphill from the swimming pond and pump the dirty water into it and then have it drain using gravity back into the swimming pool. The idea is that dirty water goes in one end of the reed bed and takes about 5 days to reach the other end. If you are draining and refilling every day you'd need a reed bed big enough to be filled with gravel and plants and still hold about 5 times the water in the swimming pool. If you are draining it less often you'd need less capacity - just enough for 5 days' retention before the clean water starts getting pushed out by the volume of dirty water coming in.

There is a fair bit of info on the internet about reed beds (mainly for treating human grey water but the principles are the same for duck water). This is a really good article: http://www.aila.org.au/canberragarden/water/Reedbed.pdf

Whatever kind of filter you use I'd put the swimming pond on a surface that will prevent (or discourage) the ducks grabbing dirt and putting it in the pond. Dirt will clog up your filter system.

 

[shella]

70%cocoa :

Shella, that does make sense. I think that all of it would work very well except you will need a pretty good filter setup to get the water clear enough to return to the swimming pool. The best filter would be a biological one - i.e. a reed bed. You could have the reed bed uphill from the swimming pond and pump the dirty water into it and then have it drain using gravity back into the swimming pool. The idea is that dirty water goes in one end of the reed bed and takes about 5 days to reach the other end. If you are draining and refilling every day you'd need a reed bed big enough to be filled with gravel and plants and still hold about 5 times the water in the swimming pool. If you are draining it less often you'd need less capacity - just enough for 5 days' retention before the clean water starts getting pushed out by the volume of dirty water coming in.

There is a fair bit of info on the internet about reed beds (mainly for treating human grey water but the principles are the same for duck water). This is a really good article: http://www.aila.org.au/canberragarden/water/Reedbed.pdf

Whatever kind of filter you use I'd put the swimming pond on a surface that will prevent (or discourage) the ducks grabbing dirt and putting it in the pond. Dirt will clog up your filter system.

thanks
my idea is to use a couple of large bio filters that syphon in to each one 1 at a time so by the time it reaches the bath it should be cleanish and then with a large pump
which will be surrounded by filter media (so not to get clogged up) recycle it back to the top​

 

[70%cocoa]

Sounds great, Shella

I hope you post pictures etc. - we'd love to see this project online

 

[shella]

70%cocoa :

Sounds great, Shella

I hope you post pictures etc. - we'd love to see this project online

i will as soon as i can
i will take photos of each steps​

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

We had a tub in the flight pen and removed it. It has a PVC pipe attached for drainage but did not have enough down force to drain all of the water. So we were always left with water and much in the bottom that needed cleaned out. It is now out for the geese to use and is raised up on bricks at an angle. I still have to put the hose into the tub in the drain opening to force all the water out to clean it.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

I have the kiddie pool from walmart as well and mine just dive over the edge w/o any steps.

This totally cracked me up! I can just see it now!

 

[jynxster]

i like that black netting over the pond, where'd you get it? I need something like that for my babies as we have hawks olws and other birds of prey?? thanks

 

[Moochie]

I'm still making a decent pond for my ducks. My mom and I are going to put in a large pond (from home depot) into the big pond we originally dug. Then just fill with dirt around the sides, they'll have more room and we'll have a pond that won't take a long time to pump out.
By the way, will my laying flock of ducks eat pea pebbles? Or pea gravel, whatever you call it. We got that from home depot aswell and I'm hoping they won't eat any of it.. The younger ducks nibbled at the pebbles I put around their pond and it looked like they were trying to eat it.