Duck pond filter? HELP!

[Sammbalina]

I have been doing research trying to plan out how I'm going to do the pond for my ducks. My original plan was to just do some stock tanks and empty them every few days via a hose and watering our orchard and or garden with them water, but my mom wants in ground (she thinks stock tanks will look redneck ), I don't like the idea of inground because how the heck am I going to clean that out? the ground where we are going to put it is flat, so we can't use gravity to siphon, and there is no electrical source anywhere near it. She says that she has seen Solar powered pumps but I'm skeptical on whether or not they would be strong enough to filter a duck pond. My mom wants to do a bog filter but all the research I've done on how to do one doesn't seem to take into account the ridiculous amounts of sediment (aka Poop) that ducks create. All of the bog filters seem to focus on the chemical/nutrients balance but don't address large amounts of sediment. Basically they have pumps that pump the water from the pond into the bog filter which then waterfalls back into the pond, but if you do that in a duck pond the pump would just get clogged to heck and back with poo! I've even looked for duck pond specific bog filters and it always seems to gloss over the issue of the sediment... Am I missing something?

Also, we have A LOT of ducks over 30 +9 geese, though we are soon going to be culling some boys, and 4 of the Geese are currently in breeding pens.

 

[aart]

Am I missing something?

No.
You've found the common pit falls that most people miss.

 

[DukesDucks]

Wondering if this would work for you. Is it possible to attach a hose to the bottom edge on the pool. The hose could be buried for a distance to come up at a convenient place. I just hung the end of my hose on a branch or you could use some kind of stopper. You can use capillary action to drain the pool as needed. Rinse out any remaining sediment through the hose, replace stopper or rehang hose, then refill pool.

 

[AGeese]

How about Duckponics?

 

[cheezenkwackers]

30+ ducks would provide enough waste for acres of aquaponics or an olympic swimming pool sized bog, so most have found that not the way to go. I only have 8 ducks but I empty their pools into my garden and it works great, organic miracle grow. After some back issues from lifting pools and 5 gallon buckets, I purchased this pump: https://www.acehardware.com/departments/plumbing/pumps-and-pump-parts/sump-pumps/4599072.
It connects to a hose. I just drop it in the pool, plug the pump in, and water my plants with the dirty water using the hose. Maybe this will solve your problem.

 

[Sondraa]

I have been doing research trying to plan out how I'm going to do the pond for my ducks. My original plan was to just do some stock tanks and empty them every few days via a hose and watering our orchard and or garden with them water, but my mom wants in ground (she thinks stock tanks will look redneck ), I don't like the idea of inground because how the heck am I going to clean that out? the ground where we are going to put it is flat, so we can't use gravity to siphon, and there is no electrical source anywhere near it. She says that she has seen Solar powered pumps but I'm skeptical on whether or not they would be strong enough to filter a duck pond. My mom wants to do a bog filter but all the research I've done on how to do one doesn't seem to take into account the ridiculous amounts of sediment (aka Poop) that ducks create. All of the bog filters seem to focus on the chemical/nutrients balance but don't address large amounts of sediment. Basically they have pumps that pump the water from the pond into the bog filter which then waterfalls back into the pond, but if you do that in a duck pond the pump would just get clogged to heck and back with poo! I've even looked for duck pond specific bog filters and it always seems to gloss over the issue of the sediment... Am I missing something?

Also, we have A LOT of ducks over 30 +9 geese, though we are soon going to be culling some boys, and 4 of the Geese are currently in breeding pens.

You are absolutely correct.

Side note, my fruit trees thrived on duck poo water! It was insane. However, anything else I watered it with died a pretty fast death.

 

[Guy4God]

I have been doing research trying to plan out how I'm going to do the pond for my ducks. My original plan was to just do some stock tanks and empty them every few days via a hose and watering our orchard and or garden with them water, but my mom wants in ground (she thinks stock tanks will look redneck ), I don't like the idea of inground because how the heck am I going to clean that out? the ground where we are going to put it is flat, so we can't use gravity to siphon, and there is no electrical source anywhere near it. She says that she has seen Solar powered pumps but I'm skeptical on whether or not they would be strong enough to filter a duck pond. My mom wants to do a bog filter but all the research I've done on how to do one doesn't seem to take into account the ridiculous amounts of sediment (aka Poop) that ducks create. All of the bog filters seem to focus on the chemical/nutrients balance but don't address large amounts of sediment. Basically they have pumps that pump the water from the pond into the bog filter which then waterfalls back into the pond, but if you do that in a duck pond the pump would just get clogged to heck and back with poo! I've even looked for duck pond specific bog filters and it always seems to gloss over the issue of the sediment... Am I missing something?

Also, we have A LOT of ducks over 30 +9 geese, though we are soon going to be culling some boys, and 4 of the Geese are currently in breeding pens.

Curious how much land you have them on? I have 1 acre and am looking for a number that won't kill everything on the acre!