How can ducks be discouraged from shitting in and around an inground swimming pool?
KJW said:
How can ducks be discouraged from shitting in and around an inground swimming pool?
Eating them seems to work.
Yappy dog. Otherwise, dunno, apart from orchardist exploding stuff.
KJW said:
How can ducks be discouraged from shitting in and around an inground swimming pool?
The neighbour behind solved the problem by filling in the pool.
The neighbour bedside solved the problem by fencing the pool in.
We love the ducks when they come to visit, which is very rarely, only happened three times in my yard, all cases where a young black duck couple is looking for a safe place to start a family.
I should also ask: black duck or wood duck? Black duck is discouraged by fences. Wood duck doesn’t mind fences but wants grass adjacent to the pool.
Or chestnut teal perhaps. That’s discouraged by chasing it away.
Wood ducks are also attracted to car yards.
A bird scarer. Something to make a sharp noise. Probably could get some modern electronic gizmo. Otherwise there’s those Japanese bamboo water pendulum type thingies, but you may need a pump to operate it.
mollwollfumble said:
The neighbour bedside solved the problem by fencing the pool in.
The pool is fenced in as required by law. But the ducks can fly into the fenced area, unlike the wallabies which only shit outside the fenced area.
pool cover?
there’s lots of stuff on You Tube about making a bird scarer. From bamboo to windmills cut out of soft drink bottles.
mollwollfumble said:
I should also ask: black duck or wood duck?
I don’t know. I don’t know much about ducks.
Boris said:
pool cover?
That sounds like a tops idea.
Boris said:
pool cover?
I thought of that but it’s not an option.
KJW said:
mollwollfumble said:
I should also ask: black duck or wood duck?
I don’t know. I don’t know much about ducks.
Black duck is the most common “feed the ducks at the park” type duck.
Wood duck is the most common on golf courses, more often seen munching grass than swimming.
Chestnut teal is found with black ducks, sometimes in much greater numbers than black ducks.
Assuming you know the difference between a duck and a coot. Coots and chestnut teals are easily frightened off.
Black duck.
Wood duck.
Chestnut teal.
Eagle kite, blow-up crocodile, angry dog, Duck Off or cover. Unless they’re really determined, in which case you need to fill the pool in or get a shot gun.
Rule 303 said:
Eagle kite, blow-up crocodile, angry dog, Duck Off or cover. Unless they’re really determined, in which case you need to fill the pool in or get a shot gun.
what about a shark with a fricken lazer beam?
I actually had this problem years ago and the pool cover did work.
KJW said:
mollwollfumble said:
I should also ask: black duck or wood duck?
I don’t know. I don’t know much about ducks.
After looking at some images, I think they are wood ducks.
PS.
It’s your own fault if there are ducklings on your pool. If so, avoid swimming there and let them grow up unmolested, it only takes a few weeks.
sibeen said:
I actually had this problem years ago and the pool cover did work.
There’s pools you can’t cover, and some covers don’t work, and sometimes the cost or inconvenience of the solution is ridiculous.
If you want to use the pool, you HAVE to get rid of the ducks. Duckshit fills the water with phosphates, which feeds the algae and overwhelms the sanitiser and the pool spirals into a lovely shade called Expensive Green.
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:
I actually had this problem years ago and the pool cover did work.
There’s pools you can’t cover, and some covers don’t work, and sometimes the cost or inconvenience of the solution is ridiculous.
If you want to use the pool, you HAVE to get rid of the ducks. Duckshit fills the water with phosphates, which feeds the algae and overwhelms the sanitiser and the pool spirals into a lovely shade called Expensive Green.
dose it with copper sulphate…
:-)
KJW said:
KJW said:
mollwollfumble said:
I should also ask: black duck or wood duck?
I don’t know. I don’t know much about ducks.
After looking at some images, I think they are wood ducks.
Wood ducks are undeterred by fences and difficult to scare off. If you put concrete around the edges of the pool, deny them access to the grass. The bigger the gap between the pool and the grass, the less problem you will have.
I have no proof of this, but a dog might scare off wood ducks. Dogs don’t scare off black ducks, but I’ve never seen wood ducks in places where there are lots of dogs.
Or cats.
mollwollfumble said:
Or cats.
I don’t have any dogs or cats and don’t wish to go down that path.
Boris said:
Rule 303 said:
sibeen said:
I actually had this problem years ago and the pool cover did work.
There’s pools you can’t cover, and some covers don’t work, and sometimes the cost or inconvenience of the solution is ridiculous.
If you want to use the pool, you HAVE to get rid of the ducks. Duckshit fills the water with phosphates, which feeds the algae and overwhelms the sanitiser and the pool spirals into a lovely shade called Expensive Green.
dose it with copper sulphate…
:-)
Nope. Doesn’t work.
KJW said:
mollwollfumble said:
Or cats.
I don’t have any dogs or cats and don’t wish to go down that path.
Needle snakes?
Rule 303 said:
Boris said:
Rule 303 said:There’s pools you can’t cover, and some covers don’t work, and sometimes the cost or inconvenience of the solution is ridiculous.
If you want to use the pool, you HAVE to get rid of the ducks. Duckshit fills the water with phosphates, which feeds the algae and overwhelms the sanitiser and the pool spirals into a lovely shade called Expensive Green.
dose it with copper sulphate…
:-)
Nope. Doesn’t work.
yeah, it does cos i have done it. goes a nice black colour then lots of filtering.
KJW said:
mollwollfumble said:
Or cats.
I don’t have any dogs or cats and don’t wish to go down that path.
Ill-tempered sea-bass it is then.
Rule 303 said:
If you want to use the pool, you HAVE to get rid of the ducks. Duckshit fills the water with phosphates, which feeds the algae and overwhelms the sanitiser and the pool spirals into a lovely shade called Expensive Green.
So far, most of the shit is around the pool (and there is quite a lot of it) with only occasional dumps in the pool. The water is still quite clear.
KJW said:
Rule 303 said:
If you want to use the pool, you HAVE to get rid of the ducks. Duckshit fills the water with phosphates, which feeds the algae and overwhelms the sanitiser and the pool spirals into a lovely shade called Expensive Green.
So far, most of the shit is around the pool (and there is quite a lot of it) with only occasional dumps in the pool. The water is still quite clear.
Definitely wood ducks in that case. They spend like 95% of their time out of the water.
AwesomeO said:
KJW said:
mollwollfumble said:
Or cats.
I don’t have any dogs or cats and don’t wish to go down that path.
Needle snakes?
Snakes are a natural part of my environment, although I only see them occasionally.
Boris said:
Rule 303 said:
Boris said:dose it with copper sulphate…
:-)
Nope. Doesn’t work.
yeah, it does cos i have done it. goes a nice black colour then lots of filtering.
Yep. That’s the sort of crap we used to do before we worked out what it was and how to fix it. Did you get to the stage of dumping all the water, de-scaling the whole pool and equipment, and replacing the heat exchanger in the gas heater?
KJW said:
AwesomeO said:
KJW said:I don’t have any dogs or cats and don’t wish to go down that path.
Needle snakes?
Snakes are a natural part of my environment, although I only see them occasionally.
This will explain my comment
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
AwesomeO said:
This will explain my commenthttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
Oh ok. When dogs were first mentioned, I thought about a particular Porky Pig cartoon which involved a similar escalation (but I couldn’t locate it online).
KJW said:
AwesomeO said:
This will explain my commenthttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yruQM1ggc
Oh ok. When dogs were first mentioned, I thought about a particular Porky Pig cartoon which involved a similar escalation (but I couldn’t locate it online).
Woodie said:
Am I awake?
Woodie said:
Am I awake?
kii said:
Woodie said:
Am I awake?
if you are it is not worth it, go back to sleep :)
kii said:
Woodie said:
Am I awake?
Obviously not.
Woodie said:
How about crocodiles?
kii said:
Woodie said:
How about crocodiles?
they use them to make those silly sandals.
Woodie said:
I want one.
Best protest sign in the world.
You know the Bunnings shade sails? Well I’d reckon that these could confuse ducks flying over. They may not see the water.
roughbarked said:
You know the Bunnings shade sails? Well I’d reckon that these could confuse ducks flying over. They may not see the water.
Might work with the wood ducks. I’ve never seen wood ducks under a manmade shade. The only shade they seem to like is trees.
These are black ducks.
mollwollfumble said:
These are black ducks.
They’ll follow you anywhere.
I have a friend who has the same Cedrus deodara in his front yard that appeared on the cover of the magazine greengrass or whatever its name was, back in the day when Don Mackay was murdered and nobody could ever find his body. An arial shot from the plane coming in to land in the grass capital of Australia at the time according to the media.
Anyway, back to black ducks. He’d actually put a planter box up in the top of the same tree to grow his plant or two. of course it failed becase he couldn’t push enough water up there for a e\result but a black duck chose it for a nesting site.
He watched the time when they left the nest and one fell from the tree uopside down. The mother waited to see how it fared before proceeding. The walk was across the Kidman Way with all its trucking and a truck stopped to allow the ducks to waddle.
wookiemeister said:
Too much gun.
Peak Warming Man said:
wookiemeister said:
Too much gun.
wookiemeister said:
“Worlds MOST ADVANCED S-400 Missiles”
… Yep. It’s a gun.
Bubblecar said:
KJW said:
How can ducks be discouraged from shitting in and around an inground swimming pool?
Should I lay the leftover bones around the pool to send a message?
KJW said:
Should I lay the leftover bones around the pool to send a message?
You’re not allowed to do this any more, but we used to catch one (of the offending animals, be it crow, fox, rabbit, whatever) and tie it to a fence post with wire around the hind leg. Fucken cruel but it worked.
Rule 303 said:
KJW said:
Should I lay the leftover bones around the pool to send a message?You’re not allowed to do this any more, but we used to catch one (of the offending animals, be it crow, fox, rabbit, whatever) and tie it to a fence post with wire around the hind leg. Fucken cruel but it worked.
Bullet, head, humane.
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:
KJW said:
Should I lay the leftover bones around the pool to send a message?You’re not allowed to do this any more, but we used to catch one (of the offending animals, be it crow, fox, rabbit, whatever) and tie it to a fence post with wire around the hind leg. Fucken cruel but it worked.
Bullet, head, humane.
Not really. If you have to kill it, the ‘gold standard’ is to render it unconscious and rapidly exsanguinate. I’ve seen animals keep running after taking all calibers to the head.
Rule 303 said:
roughbarked said:
Rule 303 said:You’re not allowed to do this any more, but we used to catch one (of the offending animals, be it crow, fox, rabbit, whatever) and tie it to a fence post with wire around the hind leg. Fucken cruel but it worked.
Bullet, head, humane.
Not really. If you have to kill it, the ‘gold standard’ is to render it unconscious and rapidly exsanguinate. I’ve seen animals keep running after taking all calibers to the head.
Well. bullet head.. pisses on tying leg.
Rule 303 said:
KJW said:
Should I lay the leftover bones around the pool to send a message?You’re not allowed to do this any more, but we used to catch one (of the offending animals, be it crow, fox, rabbit, whatever) and tie it to a fence post with wire around the hind leg. Fucken cruel but it worked.
Yeah, perhaps ducks wouldn’t be smart enough to recognise a message based only on bones.
KJW said:
Rule 303 said:
KJW said:
Should I lay the leftover bones around the pool to send a message?You’re not allowed to do this any more, but we used to catch one (of the offending animals, be it crow, fox, rabbit, whatever) and tie it to a fence post with wire around the hind leg. Fucken cruel but it worked.
Yeah, perhaps ducks wouldn’t be smart enough to recognise a message based only on bones.
I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
Michael V said:
KJW said:
Rule 303 said:You’re not allowed to do this any more, but we used to catch one (of the offending animals, be it crow, fox, rabbit, whatever) and tie it to a fence post with wire around the hind leg. Fucken cruel but it worked.
Yeah, perhaps ducks wouldn’t be smart enough to recognise a message based only on bones.
I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
Bash their nests with a stick and close the access door.
Michael V said:
KJW said:
Rule 303 said:You’re not allowed to do this any more, but we used to catch one (of the offending animals, be it crow, fox, rabbit, whatever) and tie it to a fence post with wire around the hind leg. Fucken cruel but it worked.
Yeah, perhaps ducks wouldn’t be smart enough to recognise a message based only on bones.
I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
I understand a Squash racquet works well…
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
KJW said:Yeah, perhaps ducks wouldn’t be smart enough to recognise a message based only on bones.
I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
Bash their nests with a stick and close the access door.
There’s no door or walls in the carport.
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
KJW said:Yeah, perhaps ducks wouldn’t be smart enough to recognise a message based only on bones.
I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
I understand a Squash racquet works well…
Bugger. I don’t have one.
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
KJW said:Yeah, perhaps ducks wouldn’t be smart enough to recognise a message based only on bones.
I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
I understand a Squash racquet works well…
Last year we used water jets from the hose. But boy they were persistent.
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
Bash their nests with a stick and close the access door.
There’s no door or walls in the carport.
time to consider approximating where to put the swallow baffles. think motorcycles.
Michael V said:
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
I understand a Squash racquet works well…
Last year we used water jets from the hose. But boy they were persistent.
They are fucking persistent. No doubt. Thing is, beat them to the punch. Wrap bird wie around places they may want to nest.
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
KJW said:Yeah, perhaps ducks wouldn’t be smart enough to recognise a message based only on bones.
I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
I understand a Squash racquet works well…
It’s cruel and there’s no need for it, learn to live with them.
I do that at the redoubt, they roost on the verandah battens at the Redoubt, and sure they make a bit of a mess but it’s no biggie. I enjoy the pair of them coming in at sundown after their day, if I’ve got the genny on I turn it off until they are settled.
Peak Warming Man said:
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
I understand a Squash racquet works well…
It’s cruel and there’s no need for it, learn to live with them.
I do that at the redoubt, they roost on the verandah battens at the Redoubt, and sure they make a bit of a mess but it’s no biggie. I enjoy the pair of them coming in at sundown after their day, if I’ve got the genny on I turn it off until they are settled.
That’s why they have the name, welcome swallow.
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:
KJW said:Yeah, perhaps ducks wouldn’t be smart enough to recognise a message based only on bones.
I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
I understand a Squash racquet works well…
I mentioned this:
mollwollfumble said:
Rule 303 said:
Michael V said:I wonder whether Rule’s system would work with swallows…
I understand a Squash racquet works well…
I mentioned this:
Pretty good :)
Although some very aggro magpies will take off from the ground and give you a facial. 😖
KJW said:
How can ducks be discouraged from shitting in and around an inground swimming pool?
Two more lateral thinking ideas came to me in the past week.
1. Get a cow. You’ll never worry about bird poop again.
2. Get a trail-cam with a flash. Wood ducks dislike having their photo taken. And no animal likes flash photography.
mollwollfumble said:
KJW said:
How can ducks be discouraged from shitting in and around an inground swimming pool?Two more lateral thinking ideas came to me in the past week.
1. Get a cow. You’ll never worry about bird poop again.
2. Get a trail-cam with a flash. Wood ducks dislike having their photo taken. And no animal likes flash photography.
scare guns are often employed on rice crops but a rice farmer mate of mine invented a strobing light. It worked better than the scare guns but this is at night, when ducks are feeding.
