worked on pond some more

[johnnyjack]

ur a mess . but keep workin on that pond.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

Are you putting in an underlayment and liner? BestNEst sells those for a good price. There are tons of good sites ont he web about pond maintenance, I read everything I could find and have beenlucky with mine being a healthy ecosystem. Don't know where you live but even in North Carolina it is now cold enough in the water, meaning the water is steadily at 55 degrees or less so my fish are pretty dormant now and don't need feeding. You can fill yours with water and let it "cure" till spring. It will need a little aeration to not stagnate, maybe a small solar aerator off ebay. Dirt bottom ponds can be goggled too for info, mostly they will stay alittle cloudy all the time but are probably better ecologically than the lined ones --we, of course in Neighborhood city, have septic lines and than the runoff pipes from those shoot off all over the yard and drain excess septic water into the yard so a liner was a must have and the underlayment protects from plant roots, should last a long time. Good luck, you are probably sore as all get out this morning fro the shoveling!

 

[picklespickles]

before when i did them, i had to have something in the ground. i've been doing this one a little at a time to see if i can condition the ground, so to speak, to get a muddy thing going so it will just hold it. hard to do here in teh desert, but it definitely holds water now for longer than it did say a month ago. it hadn't occured to me to google the dirt bottomed ponds. i just always saw the liner/concrete ones. good idea.

if this one has fish, it would be secondary to the geese and ducks and chickens. actually, i am considering one for fish, but more in a "my yard" type area than in the barnyard. that one would be more of a sitdown with a glass of ice tea and watch the sunset and the nice orange fish reflecting off the end of the day.

this one is more of a honk honk quack quack i wanna dig in the mud type pond.

 

[johnnyjack]

i saw an oldtimer that took and old fiberglass boat took everything out inside and left the hull dug a hole and put it in the ground filled it up for his pond lol it was neat. and it should last forever.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

I love the boat idea!! WOuldn't that be cute to decorate with a fishing theme around it?! Good luck with your duck pond pickles.

 

[picklespickles]

that boat thing is a great idea. i think this pond will stay cloudy regarldess as with ducks and geese that is their main duty in life to cloud things up.

i didn't know that in cold weather fish didn't need feeding.

 

[picklespickles]

the two trenches off the end of the pond are working just how i wanted! when the geese feel bossy and chase the chickens from drinking the pond, then they go to the trench end which is further away and not as deep. so geese don't feel so much like it's theirs and the chickens just want to drink and dig mud, so they don't need to swim. so the trenches are theirs.

yeah!

i feel like one of the biggest things i do is barnyard management. like how they all get along and the dominance order, the groups, the interrelationships. i really work hard to make sure that the stuff i do helps make room for them to diffuse their energy and aggression so their is more harmony.

lol. when i read the board, i can tell, like, oh, that person is into nutrition or breeding or whatever. so, i'm realizing my own focus is designing the areas to make the easiest harmony, so that the fights are at least partially solved before they even begin.

 

[johnnyjack]

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lol makes me want to know what u think of me pickles????????? what do u say about me when u read my post. (((((smile now dont laugh or be ugly.))))))

 

[picklespickles]

 

[johnnyjack]

lol