How To Build a DIY Duck Enclosure and Pond!

[@DarrenPennington-jt4yx]

Love this, putting Pembs in a good light 💪🏾

[@johnmooney3258]

That's a great job ,on the pond pete.and the fencing is well done.good on ya👍

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Cheers, pond plants have all been eaten on day 2 R.i.p lol 😅 feel like hulk after sledge hammering those posts in 🤣

[@sharonsunshine2532]

Nice pond! 👍

[@MJADoingStuff]

I think it turned out great the ducks look happy. May take them awhile to get used to you. Thanks for the video my friend.😁👍

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Thanks buddy yeah day 3 today very skittish animals! Have a good day bud 😊

[@MrFarquar]

Thats come off really well mate, good job 👍

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Cheers bud 😊

[@masseyfarmer3246]

Nice job 👍

[@piccinini123]

great build!

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Cheers buddy!

[@fredbaker3822]

i like it! nice job

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Thanks! Was a long video to record lol

[@SAM__6630]

Good work on the pond, for the fencing you might want to put another post that fits in from either the top or the middle of the corner posts on a 45 degree angle that goes inward to the pen, if that makes sense. This will support the pen and will prevent the pen from caving in on its self in the future when the soil gets moist 👍🏻

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Originally I was going to add straining posts round the corner I probly should have! If needs be I'll have to add some in I had to cut the chicken wire as I went round the corners as it wouldn't restrain properly. Have a good day

[@SAM__6630]

@@MowersFamilyFarm yeah, all looks very good. Cant wait to see your future projects!

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

@@SAM__6630 Thank you have a few plans lined up! Stay tuned buddy ☺️

[@docteurjekyll]

Nice channel. You seem nice and Irish.

[@willmoore3790]

Love your channel nice duck pond they're noisy little buggers good on you any chance you could give us a bit of background on your goals are here or is it just to live the good life?

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Very noisey! So we always wanted to move to a farm in Pembrokeshire for years! So 10 years to late the family managed it and now we're working towards, self sufficiency and a stable income. We sell chicken eggs and veg out an honesty box which does well and also hay every summer, and working to towarsds expanding in everyway we can with more land and more plans.

[@willmoore3790]

@@MowersFamilyFarm thanks for letting me know wish you and your family all the best

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Thank you bud! It all started with my grandparents having a holiday down here and they had a caravan for over 30 years so that ment every holiday was in Pembrokeshire rather than abroad and always felt like home 🏠 dad has the farming and agri knowledge and the rest of us have been learning from scratch

[@felixmeynell6277]

Great video, wire needs to be dug in though to stop the fox.

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Fox will jump over that wire as it's around 3.5-4feet high, however they have an enclosure thats nearly finished now which is 6 foot high fencing and I'm burying around 1 foot of metal grates around it to hopefully stop a fox digging into that enclosure :) will update a video on that soon as it's nearly finished, have a good day!

[@felixmeynell6277]

Tremendous work!

[@mikemcgrath8453]

you gonna need a filter on that pond because ducks will dirty that water in couple days

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Had the ducks for nearly a year and a half now, still no filter, just every month or two in there with a bucket and empty it, takes about 20 mins of barrowing out water which isn't to bad tbh.

[@rickyhinkle847]

how often do you have to do water changes? or what do you do for filtering?

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

@@rickyhinkle847 it goes green really fast, so I do around 3/4 changes a year. In the pond with a bucket shoveling it out takes around 15 minutes. Most people create a plug and drain system but I don't mind the exercise from shoveling. They use the water no matter the colour but they have a small blue plastic sand tray we use as a every other day clean for them.

[@longtu01]

How’s the pond liner hold up with ducks claws?

[@MowersFamilyFarm]

Quite a few months later! No issues at all! No leaks or anything just need to make sure they have natural shelfing or some way to climb out as they find it a tad slippy.

[@MOJOTHE6]

Where my duck lol