I finally realized there was a major design flaw in my drain system for my duck&goose pool. The walls of a $10 kiddie wading pool simply aren't thick enough to handle any torque. So I went to Harbor Freight and bought a drill powered pump to suck the muck. Once I got it home I realized it don't have screw on fittings for a garden hose but I think I can redneck engineer around that minor obstacle. The Quack Pack at present have (2) 4' diameter pools to enjoy. I still have the 5' pool that I'll have to patch up for them. Hey, they can will a pool w/ poop in no time flat so keeping clean water for them is a labor of love! I still have their "baby" pool which was originally a scallop shaped wading pool some 3' at the widest. I'm thinking that plus the pair of 4' and the 5' should keep them fat and happy. I should be thin and happy if I change the water in one pool daily. So everybody is happy, Happy, HAPPY!
With the addition of 1 more 25' garden hose (5/8" diameter) I should be able to pump the waste water to my compost bins and anywhere else I want to put it. With all the fresh bird butt pudding it's too hot to put directly on plants for fertilizer but maybe over the Winter I can pump & dump most of the semi solid waste into my raised bed gardens, compost bins and worm bed and by Spring it will have aged enough to be good fertilizer.
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