My "maybe temporary" pond, what do you think ?

[ILoveMyDucks123]

We had heavy rain couple weeks ago and a beaver dam busted up the mountain in front of my house, causing water deviation and so water to flow in our backyard ditch. We decided to leverage it and create a small dam to add depth to a section in order to create a pond with circulating water (no need filtration system)...

I have to mention we had the ditch cleaned out by a contractor a couple years ago and they had put a liner and rocks at the bottom ... We are so glad to have done that, now, it's like it was meant to be, haha!

So now we are really hoping the City doesn't fix too soon the issue that caused the water to deviate, because we anticipate we won't get any water anymore once fixed.

In the meantime, we enjoy the pool cleaning break And ducks are really happy!

Picture of water flowing before we created the dam, the actual dam we created and an after picture. I have a video of my happy ducks on their pond, there: Video of my ''pond'' once we created the dam

 

[Miss Lydia]

That is so nice for them. Love it!

 

[Jenbirdee]

that’s so sweet! they are very cute

 

[Sosalty]

Lovely. It's small enough to manage. If your liner is so that water doesn't leak, seems small enough to keep topped off with water hose? Warning; ponds maybe addicting to ducks

 

[Miss Lydia]

Lovely. It's small enough to manage. If your liner is so that water doesn't leak, seems small enough to keep topped off with water hose? Warning; ponds maybe addicting to ducks

Or anything that holds water lol

 

[Farmgirl283420]

We had heavy rain couple weeks ago and a beaver dam busted up the mountain in front of my house, causing water deviation and so water to flow in our backyard ditch. We decided to leverage it and create a small dam to add depth to a section in order to create a pond with circulating water (no need filtration system)...

I have to mention we had the ditch cleaned out by a contractor a couple years ago and they had put a liner and rocks at the bottom ... We are so glad to have done that, now, it's like it was meant to be, haha!

So now we are really hoping the City doesn't fix too soon the issue that caused the water to deviate, because we anticipate we won't get any water anymore once fixed.

In the meantime, we enjoy the pool cleaning break And ducks are really happy!

Picture of water flowing before we created the dam, the actual dam we created and an after picture. I have a video of my happy ducks on their pond, there: Video of my ''pond'' once we created the dam

That’s so cool! Looks nice and clean too

 

[ILoveMyDucks123]

That’s so cool! Looks nice and clean too

Thanks !! We'll see in a few days if it stays clean with circulating water

 

[BrittKay]

We have 25 feet of ditch in your duck pen. Even when it's not overflown like this, and they absolutely love it and spend most of the day in it. Attached is a picture of some of our ducks in part of the ditch. No pools for us for 6 months out of the year because we have the irrigation running. I would definitely recommend having them in your ditch even at lower levels.