Ducks and dirty water.

[henrythomson]

i've recently added 2 khaki Campbell ducks to my flock flock of 7 girls, they have a 4ft pool and I've also got them a second bucket full of water as there drinking water. I clean the pond 3 times a week, as soon as the water is clean the ducks are making it dirty again are they okay to swim in muddy water for up to a week or do I just have to accept it has to be clean water every other day? any advice on what people do to keep there pond/paddling pool clean would be brilliant. Thanks.

 

[keesmom]

Ducks can turn anything to mud in a matter of minutes. During the summer I cleaned their big pool out every 2 or 3 days. During the winter when I had to use smaller pools I would clean them 2 or 3 times a day, sometimes for dirt, more often for ice.

 

[shortgrass]

We change ours out every few days in the summer; we actually have a stockpile of pools so we can just toss down a clean one and fill it while the other one is draining.... We sump the water to the trees for fertilizer

Some days they go without the pool and we leave the water running at a trickle to water the yard, and it all gathers at the low end and they play in the puddle there... They enjoy that TONS more than the pool

But their drinking water gets changed out every morning. ALWAYS clean drinking water

 

[henrythomson]

Thank you! It's a tough life being a duck