Thank you all for my first pond

[j.w]

You get a nice hawk, and I get an ugly flock of turkeysView attachment 160466

Look at all those free Thanksgiving Day dinners you have walking around tho. Just joking as i could never eat one of those visitors, but I sure could eat his cousin laying in wait for me at the grocery store. It's just different and that's what I'm sticking too

 

[Pablo]

Look at all those free Thanksgiving Day dinners you have walking around tho. Just joking as i could never eat one of those visitors, but I sure could eat his cousin laying in wait for me at the grocery store. It's just different and that's what I'm sticking too

Lol, true. I could make some money from all that. Picture does not even show all of them, some were in the front yard, there were about thirty of them. My daughter had to go out a different door this morning to get to the bus.

 

[GBBUDD]

Lol, true. I could make some money from all that. Picture does not even show all of them, some were in the front yard, there were about thirty of them. My daughter had to go out a different door this morning to get to the bus.

Yea don't mess with turkey they have a side tine that can mess you up in a big way

 

[Lisak1]

Turkeys, geese, chickens - they're all terrifying beasts. Grew up running from them on my uncle's farm. He thought it was hilarious - I thought it was a horror movie! Best day ever was butchering day - we had a few months of peace before the cute little chicks turned into menacing farm yard bullies again! haha!

 

[YShahar]

going to be a long winter no new builds and the 3 major builds we did have have got quiet

I'm sure there will be new builds. And you'll still have my never ending bog build to look forward to. But major progress is happening on that! Details next year. As in two days from now, after we celebrate a two-day holiday that closes the Jewish year of 5783 and rings in 5784.

See y'all sometime after starshine on Sunday night.

 

[YShahar]

Turkeys, geese, chickens - they're all terrifying beasts. Grew up running from them on my uncle's farm. He thought it was hilarious - I thought it was a horror movie! Best day ever was butchering day - we had a few months of peace before the cute little chicks turned into menacing farm yard bullies again! haha!

Chickens really can be nasty. Chickesaurus Rex! Personally, I think chickens are plotting to re-evolve teeth and return to their previous theropodic glory. And then we'll really be in trouble!

(Right. Need to get offline and start the pre-Shabbat last minute scramble to get the house guest-worthy... )

 

[GBBUDD]

Turkeys, geese, chickens - they're all terrifying beasts. Grew up running from them on my uncle's farm. He thought it was hilarious - I thought it was a horror movie! Best day ever was butchering day - we had a few months of peace before the cute little chicks turned into menacing farm yard bullies again! haha!

i never had the pleasure in that regard but when i was playing football we got invited to thanksgiving turkey at a buddies house onn a farm. We were told to be there early. Well they did the fresh of fresh we had to catch the pig "that was hilarious" and then we had to butcher the turkey, and when the head was chopped off and the dang thing jumped up and ran . the biggest kid on our team lost his cookies and then ran in pure terror as it ran toward him " again hilarious"

 

[Lisak1]

Spent many happy childhood days pulling chickens out from under coops and sheds so my aunt could do the deed - off with their heads. I'll tell you what - there is no smell like the smell of boiled chicken feathers.

 

[addy1]

Mine always came in a sealed bag....

 

[Pablo]

Look at all those free Thanksgiving Day dinners you have walking around tho. Just joking as i could never eat one of those visitors, but I sure could eat his cousin laying in wait for me at the grocery store. It's just different and that's what I'm sticking too

Bought cranberry plants today, they do well in this area, good marginal plant. So now cranberries to go with those turkeys

 

[GBBUDD]

Ummmmmm I don't know if that's. A great choice I do know they are toxic to even us the skins have to be removed.
Interesting and yes you are in what was once cranberry capital of the world I

 

[Pablo]

@GBBUDD and @addy1 (and any other bog experts) I am a little perplexed with getting the water level correct in the bog. I keep getting 1 to 2 inches of water above the gravel. I have great flow to the stream and the waterfalls. I have two pipes to feed the bog, one to feed the usual manifold and one to add flow to the top. I only have the one feeding the manifold turned on. I can control the flow with the valves and I have it pretty low but seems like whatever I do I get the water on top.
I guess it is the spillway from the bog, must not be low enough but I thought it was level with the gravel. The gravel is twelve inches deep, I have moved some of the gravel around to see if that would do anything. The spillway is 15 inches wide. I dont know if I should be adding gravel, lowering the spillway or widening it. The spillway pours into a small pooling area and then goes to the stream. Its still early on so I can change the configuration, have plenty of liner etc, no plants in it. Any help appreciated.

 

[Pablo]

Ummmmmm I don't know if that's. A great choice I do know they are toxic to even us the skins have to be removed.
Interesting and yes you are in what was once cranberry capital of the world I

I think you must be thinking of another berry or plant. Cranberries can be eaten raw, but they are bitter so normally not eaten raw. Safe for animals and fish. In fact they are restoring bogs on the Cape to clean up the water before it goes into the bays to take up the nitrogen. One issue can be for regular cranberry bogs for commercial harvest they use a lot of pesticides and fertilizer so you have run off issues.
Visited a local nursery today, been going there for twenty years. Well known for daylillies but for sustainable gardening, the owner is very well known for his seminars on gardening. The nursery is where their house is located, they have gorgeous gardens with unique plantings and of course the daylilly fields. He was quite excited when I told him I built a pond, so he took me on a walk around the property. Showed me his pond and bog, very natural setting. Showed me how he had cranberry plants in the bog. Also showed me other plants to use. Acoros was a cool plant, it looks like a grass but is an evergreen all through winter, and can be completely wet or dry, its the plant that calamine comes from.
It was a great trip, of course it was expensive, lol. I can spend a lot on plants anywhere, lol.

 

[GBBUDD]

Learn something new . I was told skin was poisonous sounds like because the spray the heck out of it thus de shell

 

[GBBUDD]

@GBBUDD and @addy1 (and any other bog experts) I am a little perplexed with getting the water level correct in the bog. I keep getting 1 to 2 inches of water above the gravel. I have great flow to the stream and the waterfalls. I have two pipes to feed the bog, one to feed the usual manifold and one to add flow to the top. I only have the one feeding the manifold turned on. I can control the flow with the valves and I have it pretty low but seems like whatever I do I get the water on top.
I guess it is the spillway from the bog, must not be low enough but I thought it was level with the gravel. The gravel is twelve inches deep, I have moved some of the gravel around to see if that would do anything. The spillway is 15 inches wide. I dont know if I should be adding gravel, lowering the spillway or widening it. The spillway pours into a small pooling area and then goes to the stream. Its still early on so I can change the configuration, have plenty of liner etc, no plants in it. Any help appreciated.

This is why we're discourage pipes to drain a bog by gravity.

Your pipe is under pressure and is throwing so much water yes the water level can be several inches above the spill way. My pond is higher than the weir/ negative edge as is the bog to the waterfall. There's nothing wrongvwith the water above the gravel just dome plants won't like it while I there prefer it like cranberries