How To Make A Backyard Pond For Ducks
Hi in todays video Im going to be showing you how to build a Really Cheap Easy Duck pond for your Waterfowl.
How to make a backyard pond for ducks. As for the wood enclosure of the pond Crutch recommends yard tempers or junk 2 x 4 wood that you can pick up from Home Depot or the like. Design a boomerang shape of the duck pond in your backyard. So what do we do when a pair of local ducks decides to make our pond their home.
Vegetation is a critical concern when creating a duck impoundment. I have two geese and 25 ducks so this will be 10 feet wise and 15 feet long two feet deep. Ducks eat plants and can go through quite a few water hyacinths and water lilies in a season.
For this type of pond i dug a 7ft x3 ft x 4ft deep trench. Here is another cheap and easy-to-build duck pond like the previous video guide youll be using wood boards to make this pond and its quite a large duck pond. Place protective framing over the inflow in the bottom of your filter pond to make sure the pipes dont get clogged with filter media when you unplug your pump due to gravity the pump sucks back out when turned off since the filter pond is higher unless you plumb in a cut off valve at the top.
Enjoy it for a short time take photos then discourage the ducks from making your pond their home. For this type of pond I dug a 7ft x3 ft x 4ft deep trench. Tannins primarily a result of leaves and acorns in the pond create tea-colored water and this makes the pond less desirable to ducks because it is more difficult to see forage plants below the surface.
I hope you Enjoy the video if you do then ma. I now have a 300 gallon stock tank and am planning on having a pond built using wood to build the frame and lining it with the flexible pond liner. Diy backyard pond ideas can run the gamut from simple container water gardens to elaborate man made lakes.
The bigger and deeper you can build your pond the better it will be for your ducks as the water can get polluted very quickly. All wood is reclaimed from shipping palettes sourced for free. With my experience 8 - 10 ducks would definitely appreciate the larger pond.