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sofaloaf

Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 18
Location: Kent

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 05 5:38 pm Post subject:

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Dig a sump at the plughole end and fill with rubble as a soakaway..Don't skimp on this, as the bigger the soakaway the faster the water drains out.

Smallholder, does this mean that the pond is continually emptying itself, or do you leave the plug in apart from when you want to empty it?

Thing is, a bath wouldn't be big enough for my geese to swim in, especially not the fat one!

Aha! I could use on of those corner baths- yeah!!

Marigold123

Joined: 06 Feb 2005
Posts: 224

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 05 7:52 pm Post subject:
I read that ducks should have water deep enough to immerse their heads because they need to bathe their eyes. Don't know if that's true, or whether it's just an instinctive behaviour that they need to perform to be happy, like chickens being able to scratch for food.

JonO

Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Posts: 119
Location: South Birmingham

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 05 11:38 am Post subject:

We have 4 Indian Runners and I was considering building them a pond in the next few weeks. I notice someone mentioned that it's not worth building a small pond. What is a small pond ? I was going to build one which would cover an area of about 3.5m (Squared, though not a square pond !) is this classed as small ?

Also I was trying to figure out a way of draining/cleaning etc and notice the soak away idea, I had considered putting in some kind of filter but hadn't gotten much further into investigating this idea has anyone else got any ideas abour trying to keep the water clean ? I haven't really got a clue about filters (Or ponds in general) so any help is appreciated !

Jon.

mrsnesbitt

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1576

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 05 12:01 pm Post subject:
Welcome JonO..hope you enjoy it here. We have a pond for our geese and when we had ducks they used it too. At it's deepest it's about .5metre I would say. We use a filter pump and long wide bore pipe thing to empty/clean at regular intervals. Hope this helps. D

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 05 12:20 pm Post subject:

mrsnesbitt wrote:

Welcome JonO..hope you enjoy it here.

We have a pond for our geese and when we had ducks they used it too. At it's deepest it's about .5metre I would say. We use a filter pump and long wide bore pipe thing to empty/clean at regular intervals.
Hope this helps.
D

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mrsnesbitt

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1576

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 05 12:28 pm Post subject:

JonO

Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Posts: 119
Location: South Birmingham

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 05 9:36 am Post subject:
Is the filter able to handle all the waste OK then ? I was unsure if it would block up or fill up too fast ? Does the water look in anyway clean or is that asking too much ? And thankyou Mrs Nesbitt I'd love to take you up on the offer of doing your garden as well, but my chickens/ducks would know I've cheated on them if they could sense I was digging worms for other poultry !

mrsnesbitt

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1576

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 05 9:39 am Post subject:
The filter manages will check the specification etc and get back to you JohnO...I am a blonde you know and will speak to hubs about the technical side of things ...you know which end goes in the pond type of thing and get back to you!

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