How to Seal a Pond Naturally With Pigs
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- Опубліковано 29 лют 2020
- Is your pond leaking water? Today I want to show you how to seal a pond naturally with pigs. On our farm, we had a pond that leaked water. I could have bought a pond liner but that would have been expensive and would have required a lot of labor. I also could have tried a chemical pond sealer but I'm confident that wouldn't have fixed my problem. Instead, I decided to let me pigs have free access to my pond. Not only did they stop it my pond from leaking, the it is also much healthier now.
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It’s called gleying. Or to gley the pond.it’s a combination of their hooves packing it and thief poop making a natural seal.
Pigs don’t poop in the water
I am waiting for the update in this and next summers. I am really curious to see how the pond will look like in the coming seasons!
Wow, that's cool. Thanks for sharing.
geese and ducks are a better option becase they have a certain type of bacteria in the poop that block the soil..... and the pond will actually increase
But...pigs are way tastier! Lol 😆
That’s very interesting. I’m planning to build a pond purely for our geese, rather than the kids pool they use currently. So geese poop will actually help seal the pond?
thank you
Really impressive
This was great stumbling on to this video because we are about to build a pond with pigs this was awesome e Evidence it works 😅
Soo cool. My pond is also leaking. I’ll try that out!
Awesome! Please keep us posted on your progress.
Brilliant..!
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Great video, it gives me a new idea as am building a small pond myself, am going to use our local clay and pound it on the floor and the wall.
Same! The only pigs I may be able to have in my town is guinea pigs and I don’t think they will work! The soil here is not high in clay content . Now I need to find a clay source and what to use to pound it!
Dissolve duck manure in water. Apply around the pond.
The problem will be algae in the summer for a few years.
I want to have a wildlife pond in my backyard. I’ve had koi ponds in the past and the water was crystal clear because I used a homemade biological filter with varying sizes of course gravel. I recirculated the pond water to it using a small underwater pump protected with screening. (Actually, I was protecting all the critters from it.). I will be putting fish and shrimp in the pond- they will eat the algae. I’ve gotten some great information from the video and comments. I was thinking of using a plastic or rubber lining that had been removed from a pond but don’t like the idea simply because I am trying to be environmentally conscious. Some people claim that they break down over time. If I can use compacted clay with duck and pig poop, great!
The whole point was to improve the environment for the wildlife. I moved back to my childhood neighborhood after 50 years and it is devoid of everything- birds, frogs, lizards, rabbits… I do have a couple of squirrels and a crow once in a while. I scared a 5’ long black snake today. It is a 3/4 acre lot with climax deciduous trees with a free flowing stream across the back. I expected it to be teeming with wildlife. I hung a bird feeder with food last fall. The food is still in it! ☹️
Luv it ...
if you dont have pigs just take a packing tool for concrete and pack it down
Hi-ho hi-ho off to buy 50 pigs I go. So I can seal my pond. Thanks
Tree roots get into pond during winter leafs fall trees suck less water from pond.
About to put pigs on mine, got it fenced off today.
Hello! What did you feed them? We are going to do this but I’m being told they need medicated feed which I’d rather not use. Thank you!
Awesome thanks, the time the pigs out on the pond ,?? ,Did it take ,? Thanks
I allowed the pigs to have access to the pond whenever they wanted for one full summer. During the hottest part of the summer is when they spent most of their time in and around it.
Oh, i thought you were gonna shove little piggies into all the leaks to seal it. This makes more sense.
😂
Thanks i was just imagining this in my mind. I am thinking whether buffalo will do the same.
I'm not sure. Pigs love rolling around in the mud which helps. But I would think any animal that hangs around the water long enough and is heavy enough to compact the soil would help some.
@@Farmhacker I find wild Haggis do a great job too.
@@cooldaddy2877 Haha! Are you Scottish?
@@Farmhacker No, but I have lived there. Nothing beats seeing the Haggis in its natural habitat!
How long do you have to leave the pigs out there before the pond is sealed?
How do you manage their manure?
If manure seals, do you muck into the water or muck as usual? My pigs always toilet half in their wallow (if in a pen vs rotational grazing in the woods), half in a particular corner
I have extended a paddock into this pond area so they aren't trapped around the pond. They have other areas out in the field they can go and do their business. They do sometimes produce manure around the pond but there's not much I can do about that.
We just acquired 5 pigs.
It’s called glaying
👏 wow
How long has the pond been sealed by the pigs? I was just curious if this one winter afterwards because ponds normally hold more water in the winter right? The real test would be the following summers. Has it stood up to multiple summers yet?
The original video was shot a few years ago and the pond has continued to hold more water. I understand that all ponds and soil types are not the same though so, for others, it may be good to add them again in the future for maintenance.
Bingo
@@Farmhacker 2 years later.. How's it doing?
Is this pond spring fed or has it just filled with rain water overtime.
It's only filled by rain.
I have sandy soil which is probably 10 to 15% clay. Will this method work or would I need to put clay and then get pigs.
I wish I had the answer to that but I don't since there are many different variables at play. My soil is silty clay loam so I have a higher clay content than you if that helps at all. But that doesn't
@@Farmhacker Any info helps. I actually found a guy that owns dozers and can also bring clay in to my property. I also contacted a company that sales sodium bentonite and there major location is 50 miles away. I might add about 8 to 10 inchs of clay and if it fails I will add sodium bentonite. Thanks.
@@cutweldngrind Always check where the clay comes from. In Europe for instance many rivers are heavily contamineted
I wonder if letting them in, but then giving the pond a break every so often would be good or bad... idk...
I have so many wild animals in my area, that I can't really even think about needing animals of my own yet.
That’s what I did. I didn’t keep them on it all year round.
Honest question:
If you squeeze a pig by hugging it, will it crap faster?
Never tried it. You have to catch them first which is almost impossible.
I have a backyard few acres that are sand. Pure sand with two natural ravines and a steepish slope dropping down about 50 feet across the breadth of the land. I want a pond back there. The geology is over 8-10 feet of sand. Will pigs wallowing work on pure sand?
Hi Jeffrey, unfortunately I don’t have any experience with pure sand. I think may need some clay in there as well but I’m not sure.
Show us the pond in July and August and then I will believe you.
I’m interested in doing this …our pond is deeper on one side than the other I’m concerned that the pigs could drown …is this possible?
Most pigs actually swim well, if it was me I would only have concerns about small piglets- our pigs love the water.
How long were the pigs on site around the pond?
Hi Simon! I allowed the pigs to have access to the pond whenever they wanted for one full summer. During the hottest part of the summer is when they spent most of their time in and around it.
How long did it take?
I let them have access to the pond for the entire summer, whenever they wanted.
@@Farmhacker thanks
Can I borrow some pigs?
Fosho
Boy, PETA would never like this idea.
Lol
No issues with 💩
Nope. My pigs also had access to the field so they had other areas they could do their business too.
Do you think i could do the same thing with fat chicks
thank you