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[WVduckchick]

The trough looked huge... until the photo of the trough in the much larger boat hole...

How much less water surface?

Actually I think they have more area to swim. The boat only had that center section where they could really swim, and it was much more shallow than the trough. Up under the front of the boat angled up inside, there was a little ledge. The momma ducks liked to take the little ones in there, but it wasn’t good swimming space.

 

[Alaskan]

Actually I think they have more area to swim. The boat only had that center section where they could really swim, and it was much more shallow than the trough. Up under the front of the boat angled up inside, there was a little ledge. The momma ducks liked to take the little ones in there, but it wasn’t good swimming space.

Well then, very nice!

And what did you do with the old boat?

 

[WVduckchick]

Well then, very nice!

And what did you do with the old boat?

Drug it around the house. He’ll probably pull it onto a trailer and take it to the dump, I suppose. It’s useless.

 

[bobbi-j]

@Alaskan already has more than enough 'character'.

There is that...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Actually I think they have more area to swim. The boat only had that center section where they could really swim, and it was much more shallow than the trough. Up under the front of the boat angled up inside, there was a little ledge. The momma ducks liked to take the little ones in there, but it wasn’t good swimming space.

Just grand Just what they need congratulations

 

[room onthebroom]

Hello my Pond Peeps! Been working the last couple of days on getting the boat out of the ground, and replaced with a 300 gallon cattle trough. I’m thinking now the rubber pond liner would have maybe been better, but I got a heck of a deal on the trough and hubby thought it would be easier, so that’s what we went with.
We got it about half finished yesterday, and he finished up today by adding 3.5 tons of rock to fill the empty space. They enjoyed digging in the fresh turned dirt today, but the rock will keep the pool cleaner, and will drain better, so that’s what we went with.
So here are tons of pic, for those interested to see what we did.

Spoiler: Progress pics

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Ta da!

Wowza! That looks like A LOT of work!

 

[Pyxis]

The whole story on this is in my emu thread if anyone wants to read it, but basically the short version is that Sebastian managed to let himself and Ciara out and during his recapture, he kicked me. This is the resulting bruise today, three days later:

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Pond.

 

[cheepteach]

The whole story on this is in my emu thread if anyone wants to read it, but basically the short version is that Sebastian managed to let himself and Ciara out and during his recapture, he kicked me. This is the resulting bruise today, three days later:

Sebastian is a bad boy! that looks rough

 

[WVduckchick]

@Pyxis OUCH! I hope it doesn't hurt as much as it looks like it would.


Good morning Ponderlings.