Pools in the winter?

[J99]

I really don’t like the idea of standing outside cleaning emptying and filling a pool every morning in 10 degrees
Do ducks have to have a pool in the winter?

 

[Huntergatherr]

I was just standing outside emptying the pool out with our Siphon hose Thinking the same thing...
I'm putting a drain in the bottom of the pool in the next day or two!!

 

[J99]

I was just standing outside emptying the pool out with our Siphon hose Thinking the same thing...
I'm putting a drain in the bottom of the pool in the next day or two!!

Yes I did that here’s some advice make it in the corner We made ours in the middle like an idiot and so here I am leaning my pool one way then the other then the other etc ...... four hours later. .... it was easier bailing the crap

 

[threebrookscorner]

I am no expert on ducks but after watching our ducks take a bath, preening and oiling themselves throughout the winter and staying in beautiful shape I think its important. They free range and use the brook about 6 months a year and when put in the run we use an old green turtle sandbox for a pool. Its rigid enough so I upend it to dump out and big enough to hold 5 ducks at once. We have used same this pool for 8yrs now

 

[Miss Lydia]

If it’s mid 30’s an below I use a cement mixing tub that way I can dump if they haven’t already just bathing in it.

 

[KittyKat8828]

We have a large kiddie pool with a temperature regulated pond heater. This works for us and we don't have to worry about the ducks not having water

 

[chickens really]

Yes...I definitely allow my Ducks a kiddie pool on nice days.
I have a 3 foot hose I can fill the kiddie pool with and place the pool beside my house in the sun.
My Birds always look amazing all year long.

 

[quackiemama]

We have a black plastic tank with a de-icer in it that only kicks on when temps reach freezing and turns off when it gets above freezing. Worked like a champ last year and it is big enough that we don't have the change the water everyday. Mine would be miserable without their pool.

 

[DuckyDonna]

I give them a pool until it gets butt cold and then they just have to wait until a warm day. I am in Georgia though so it's not like I'm in a super cold zone. It still gets below freezing here though.

 

[J99]

We have a black plastic tank with a de-icer in it that only kicks on when temps reach freezing and turns off when it gets above freezing. Worked like a champ last year and it is big enough that we don't have the change the water everyday. Mine would be miserable without their pool.

My pool gets so dirty and gross in a half a day if that so I have to dump it and fill it daily , how do you keep it from getting gross or smelling or stagnating?