I can lend some corroboration to this. Even without the manure, just the ducks activity also has some effect. There's a small depression on the property which would fill with water, but drain out over a few weeks, but when I was raising ducks I noticed it was staying fuller and for longer. When it would rain, the ducks would go right to the 'puddle' and play, dabble, wrestle, and bathe. After a storm passed, I would go out and inspect, and watch over the next few days. I found as the water receded, there was a coating of the ultra fine clay, Al most like potter's slurry, then it hit me: they were unintentionally stratifying the soil. While their bore holes were creating pockets to hold water in the general area increasing relative saturation. When the ducks would play, they were agitating the soil and it was being suspended in the water. Like a soil test, The heavier sediments, rocks and sands were dropping out quickly and forming a tighter matrix to keep finer still particles up higher. Mown clippings were being deposited by runoff (anaerobic decomposition of organic waste mimics the manure) and building up on the sand, creating a mat of organic matter similar to oriented stand board. Then slowly covered in a layer of increasingly finer clay. This was decreasing the permeability of the soil making it harder for the water to percolate through. Meaning it would stay wetter between rain events, combined with higher saturation and decreased permeability, it eventually just held liquid. Continued duck activity around the periphery widens the area and has the effect of deepening the pond. If you just leave ducks to themselves, they will eventually make a depression into a puddle, and a puddle into a pond.

@grumpygrannysgoatsngardens3185

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to share this with us!

@adyingbreedofman9112

Жыл бұрын

You've solved my problem, I'm gonna let my new ducks make their own pond! Seriously though thanks for the information that is only learned through experience. I have watched my ducks at work, slowly making water holes. I can truly see them getting the pond started, they will get to choose where they want it. And I will follow behind them!

@GriffenNaif

10 ай бұрын

Gley (Glei Ukrainian) is the term

I had Ancona ducks about 30 and on flat, sandy soil, they did their business. That manure piled up and piles up and snow and water would just sit atop it with nowhere to go. It works.

do you have a follow up video to this project please?

Did it seal?

We have a irrigation water canal that leaks profusely into our field that's on its lower side. That keeps our water table extremely high almost throughout the year. Is there a natural system we could deploy to seal the leak?

@stuartdelamare4072

Жыл бұрын

I’d say bentonite clay or a video I just watched the dude used pigs to seal his pond naturally 👍🏼🇬🇬

@wollschweinriddim606

2 ай бұрын

yes, if you dont want to take ducks, then do your own busines there😅

Wonderful. I will certainly make my pond with duck-poo liner. One question! Aren't you worried about silting up / over fertilization, once the pond is sealed?

@ryanbarr4910

5 жыл бұрын

eat more duck? grown more aquatic plants? irrigate with the nutrient rich water? raise tilapia to eat algae? i'm sure he'll find a solution to over fertilization if it ever becomes a problem.

thank you

I would love that but I would just eat the eggs not the ducks themselves.

@jeffreydustin5303

2 жыл бұрын

The problem is the 50/50 ratio of poultry gender means you get roughly half males and they overmate with the females causing harm to themselves and the females. Been there, done that and it was NOT pretty.

@GriffenNaif

10 ай бұрын

So you must eat Duck

Is bamboo good on a dam wall? For erosion?

@RichardFalkner

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, it creates matting roots that knit the soil together. Although with that said, you'll notice the bamboo was still only on the outside edge of the dam wall. Trees with big tap roots are what you want to be more wary of, as they will penetrate and unseal the pond wall.

@Giovanni-gp2wl

3 жыл бұрын

Okay cool, any type of bamboo you recommend or are they all pretty much good?

@RichardFalkner

3 жыл бұрын

@@Giovanni-gp2wl I think you'd want to go with the clumping varieties, which grow rhizomes upwards, instead of vigorously outwards. Here in NZ only clumping varieties are allowed to be sold. Bambusa Textilus Gracilis has nice inch thick stems.

@Giovanni-gp2wl

3 жыл бұрын

Richard Falkner thank you I appreciate you man

3:03 👍

Can chicken poo be as good as ducks ?

@grumpygrannysgoatsngardens3185

2 жыл бұрын

He said duck, sheep, cow and water buffalo-- but people certainly use pigs to expand ponds so i dunno

Gley (Glei Ukrainian)

Muscovy ducks aren't geese.

@melissab8500

4 жыл бұрын

"Muscovy aren't really ducks, but rather large perching waterfowl (Cairina moschata)." Moose Manor farm