Chicken Yard Pond! - 1 - Concept and Starting Sketch
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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Juan is a whole new man! Congrats on all the hard work Juan! Keep up the good work.
Always happy to see you, and Juan, but that Barred Rock hen was the star of this show, sticking her head out!
For real! Too cute!
'...almost helpful' ☺ Your patience with the ladies is a wonder to behold! Looking forward to more tours and updates on the chicken garden - as interesting and helpful as all your videos certainly are, I can't help being delighted with the chicken set up x
Chicken tv is always a pleasure. You’ve inspired the hand dug pocket ponds around the farm.
The last trip, I was able to see a beautifully colored box turtle swimming in it. The first I had ever seen on that land. Thank you.
It always warms my heart to know that folks are inspired to dig small ponds in their landscape by hand from the experiments we're up to. It feels really rewarding and empowering to know you can create and modify water holding systems in your own landscape.
Your experiments with water have always been my favorite videos to watch. Looking forward to part two. How are all of your other ponds doing? Congratulations on your baby. Praise God.
I can't wait to see how the new pond turns out. Btw, that haircut looks really good on you. Such a handsome young man. : )
I've found discarded swimming-pool-liners to be a wonderful material for all kinds of things, but would certainly line a pond.
I bought a couple small blue pools from the dollar store for like $15 each and they hold a decent amount of water with practically no work while I build actual ponds
Have you found them to degrade? I would worry about them not holding up well in soil and leeching/degrading into the pond.
Stop giving me ideas! 😂 My chicken composting system has grown enough. Looks great!
I need to start putting my girls to work. This is awesome. I'm adding a pond to my duck run and removing a pond that we built last year.
Hens will eat willow leaves, I had one who would go out of her way to reach them.
Concerning the pond, consider layers of cardboard between layers of plastic, to protect from piercing.
Another technique you might want to consider is Petrified Hessian/Burlapcrete/Latex Concrete/Nylon-cement.
All of these are similar to Ferrocement, but they use plastic or natural fibers instead of steel mesh.
The hens are certainly enjoying your project!❤🐓
I think you have the most spoiled chickens, they have everything they need an now they get their own pond. I really have learned so much from the way you do things I'm hoping to put much of it into practice when i get moved to my own land. i have chickens now but it's not easy to practice things because I'm limited to where i can dig and the likes. my own land is raw with no buried utility lines. With my own ideas coupled with so many of yours I'm hoping my chickens will love sharing in the gardening experiences with me. I have apple an mulberry trees beside my chicken pen now and not seen any bugs or worms in my apple and the chickens love the fruit that drops. With their help I've not had to use any spray to keep bugs at bay. Thanks for sharing this chicken pond idea it's something I've been considering.. Like should i make a shallow pond or maybe a stream with the pond outside their pen so water can be circulated and kept cleaner using the bog filter method like in a natural pond. I'm looking forward to all updates and information as you create and experiences you encounter along the way. ♥
Good idea to use ex-poly plastic to line the pond, if you can find a big enough piece without holes. second hand silage tarps are thicker and last longer, if you can get them. Looking at the trees around it, you definitely need a liner which you can find second hand. Alternatively you could use a kiddie pool which is about the size of your pond. Once it's buried and surrounded by rocks, it won't look too bad. The go to plant would be duckweed as it grows really fast and high in protein. Have a protected area in the middle of the pond where it can multiply and spread out to where the chickens can get to it. It will provide endless chicken feed all summer long and comes back on its own the following year.
If you can get it, maybe use some thick textile to line the pond before the plastic, to try stop the roots from poking it. Old thick blankets or rugs can work.
Also, consider adding poor soil (subsoil) on top of the plastic, Joel Ashton style, to protect the plastic from light and provide a medium for acuatic plants.
Looking forward to the video series. Love from Spain
Thanks for these notes. We've moved the project forward and I'll share how it looks soon. Appreciate it!
wow that oak is gigantic!!! woooo
You can use greenhouse plastic there. Higher chance of punctures but it would do. There is the issue of contamination but that is with all plastics. The pool liner tip seems like a great idea and people are replacing them all the time. Chat with a pool business or two and see if they can help you out. Have you ever researched a clay lining? Seems doable for a smaller pond like this.
Love your "helpful" hens. Looking forward to seeing your ideas, and the communities, for lining a pond. I really want to install one but live on sand subsoil layers.
I'll be sharing notes in the next video in the series but the liner that we figured out working with should be good in any soil context
I have a hand dug pond (inspired by some of your older videos btw). I finished it over the winter and vegetated it this year. Duck potato (Sagittaria latifolia) is an all star so far. It can live totally submerged, but also is ok if the water level were to drop. Had a small plant in a submerged 2 gallon pot - nearly filled the pot with roots (and separable pup plants) in a little over 2 months. Tubers were apparently an important food source for some Native Americans.
Duckweed (lemna > spirodella due to increased shade tolerance) is very likely your best aquatic chicken feed candidate. Maybe eastern gamagrass or river oats on the edge. Crayfish might be worth considering if they're easily accessible. Our chickens have no issue hoarking down full sized 4 inch rusty crayfish, piece by piece.
Yayyyyyy! Tonic for me soul, let alone inspiring action for my land❤
Thanks, you guys, your videos are ALWAYS inspiring.
Love your videos! Hope to be putting up a chicken yard for myself on my new property :)
Always enjoy your ideas and information. Keep the good vibes coming!
Flora wise...The first friends that came to mind, were Watercress and River Oats. Down the line once the pond is established a blend of River oats and alfalfa could be grown on a risen perimeter to promote nitrogen?
If you can cover the plastic liner[whatever kind] with a layer of clay then stones it should last much longer.
I would suggest planting some ginger anywhere you have room. However I live in a completely different climate than you. I can let mine grow for years if needed I doubt you have the time. You could bring it in or protect it with your mulch ovens you build. It grows fine in the shade here give it a try. I'm sure some grocery store throws some out at some point and it almost always grows no matter how sad it looks. If you have access to grocery store food waste for your chickens (pigs) you could keep your eye out.
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Thank you friend, hope all is well in your world!
I suggest bentonite clay for the pond bottom.
Buuring any plastic is a bad idea. There are some long-lived geotextile products, but they are pricey unless you could get remnants...and you are still burying chemicals.
Exciting project!
Sorry I'm just commenting now, but you may be interested in my response from an engineering standpoint on using the poly. I did a video on Plastics in the Garden which may be interesting to folks, but if people don't want to watch a 20 min video on all types of plastics, I can give a short summary on poly.
Each application is unique (and interesting!) and this one is no different. My concerns with poly is a combination of high temperature and high moisture contact WHILE HOT AND EXPOSED TO UV. If you can break one of those things, poly is a great choice, even thin polyethylene like greenhouse poly. This is analogous to a fire, where you need heat, oxygen and a fuel to burn, and if you remove one of those things, you are okay. Same idea here. So for a greenhouse, you have heat and UV, but if you can keep it somewhat dry you are good. You also aren't growing plants IN the poly (or in soil in contact with the poly) so you are good. Same with lining a garden bed, you are eliminating the UV contact, so you are good.
For this pond, you will embrittle and leach your poly if you have all 3 things in place... I.e. UV, heat and water. If you are really good about having NO EXPOSED POLY to UV, then this can work. A great solution to this is a layering of, dig hole, line with fabric (to prevent punctures), then poly, then so many stones (including smaller stones) that no poly is ever exposed to the sun. That'd be my design. You can also put soil/clay on top if you want, but very small rock like river rock will actually create habitat for insects which eat mosquitoes and also beneficial bacteria which can help break down nitrates. (I also have pond design videos that discuss these things as well).
There's one last thing to consider with plastics however, and that's chemical breakdown. Your pond is going to have nitrates and carbon going into it (nitrates from chicken runoff, and carbon from organic matter decomposition, leaves, etc), so your poly will actually be in an environmental contact with nitric and carbonic acid. I will link to a document (links sometimes get blocked) in a separate reply to this comment which helps identify if these are concerns (hint, it should be okay, but I will link it for your information).
So overall, I think it's safe to use the poly in this scenario - but I do hope that this post shows people things that you should be considering with plastics in the garden, and like I said, I have a video on it if people are interested, and 22 years experience in the engineering field, as a mechanical engineer.
Always phenomenal additions to the content of these videos. I'm hoping to have the pond be very very covered with vegetation as the primary way of keeping temperature super low both in the water and on the poly and keeping UV being absorbed by living beings rather than plastic. I get it, it certainly has question marks in its use, but I'm hoping the way this is being applied it is reasonable and works for a while! Fingers crossed :)
I th8nk it will slow the water to use old poly, but If it has any holes at all, I'd expect it to still leak a little, is that leak a bad thing? Depends I suppose but it seems that there is plenty of life around the pond to utilize that leak
I haven’t tried it so I’m wondering how the greenhouse plastic breaks down over time. Could you end up with lots of little pieces of plastic many years later that are impossible to gather up resulting in microplastics feeding into the system?
Look around for used vinyl billboards .
What about rice? Does millet like wet feet?
I really love my chooks.
It’s fun working out a successful environment for their needs as I can see you doing here.
Fantastic. 🫡✨☮️🇦🇺