Duck water as fertilizer

[Louise Waffles]

Well, finding a well on your property is indeed exciting news. There are all sorts of reasons to justify the expense of a solar pump once you can afford it. Having an off grid water source is AWESOME. I think that having that pump would be an investment in water security in off grid living and self sufficiency, all of which I love because I am a weird little hermit lady who is seething with venom and vitriol towards those who charge for what I see should be a free human right. Water. I'm not an OMGTHESH1TISGONNAHITTHEFAN prepper, but there really is great value in having your very own resources. Anyway, all silliness aside, to the poultry math: you say a month's salary, but you can use the system I use to make your workdays seem a little more valuable: I am event staff, so my hours (when I work) are kind of long. I have 10-15 hour days
15 hours scheduled:
-1 hour lunch
-20 minutes bathroom breaks
-2 hours work-appropriate (not related) conversation with colleagues) (it is really morelike 3, but they are pretty boring so don't get full credit)
-1 hour witty repartee with amusing clients
-1.5 hours for Walter Smitty-ish daydreaming
-4 hours for when my mind is somewhere else, but I am still there working
-45 minutes wishing for coffee, then going for coffee
I could go on but it gets tedious and I haven't got a calculator handy and can't see all I've typed. It almost seems like I am not even working! The point is: how much are you REALLY working in that month? Much less than you are being paid for, probably. So calculate how much your day is worth per your salary, then how much you do actual work. So really, it's not a month's salary at all! I'm only halfway through my first energy drink of the day, but I'm almost certain this makes sense.
A well! So! exciting! I will probably just load everything up and come stay with you. We will go off grid, gardening and raising ducks and chickens. I want goats too, we will learn to make vegan goats milk soap. Everything will be sold a a roadside stand. We will get to work building pens and coops and natutal swimming pools, and our husbands will stand by, amazed at our ingenuity and work ethic. Also our perfectly coordinated outfits. When we are done with our work day, we will wipe the sweat from our brows, pour a glass of wine (from grapes we grew!), and tell our husbands that everything will be okay. They will come around eventually.
All silliness aside, congratulations on your find, it is AWESOME.

 

[Duck stepmother]

Has anyone tried a Muck-Vac. It is design to suck the dirt out of the bottom of ponds, but it doesn't mention duckponds
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=5565

 

[Duckworth]

I assume then that both of you have double checked my math, and I'm completely right? . . . (If it was an odd number, round down. And 1 is always an odd number, so....

If 1 is always an odd number and odd numbers are always rounded down, then 10 = 00 and 19 = 08, right? Or 35,791 = 24,680, which is 2,468 x 10--I mean 00, which everyone knows = zero. Time to get more ducks!

 

[Duckworth]

We can drill garden wells in our city, with a permit, of course. I would like to drill one in the next year or two, since both ducks and vegetables use lots of water. We would not be allowed to use the water for anything else, despite that the water from the aquifer is potable. But as someone else mentioned, an alternate source of water using a solar- or generator-powered pump just can't be a bad idea. We already have an approximately 3000 gallon (empty) concrete cistern buried in our backyard, left over from the days before city water.