Duck Pond Construction Photos

Hogguide · Jul 9, 2006

In between hog hunts this week, we have been constructing a couple of New Duck Ponds. We should be through with the bulldozer work tomorrow and will be planting it with Corn, Japanese millet, and Egyptian Wheat.
It is a dike type system in a large swamp. We are about 1/2 mile off the Ocmulgee River and last year we had several thousand woodies that flew across this swamp each morning and evening on the way to and from the roost.
We hope to be able to get them to stay here and feed some.

Here are a few pictures from earlier today.

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Hogguide

gacowboy · Jul 9, 2006

Awesome, That will be great this fall! You should be able to hold some ducks,

quackwacker · Jul 9, 2006

Are you around Macon.................

I can tell you of 4 areas like you are building that are loaded with ducks every year. If you do it right and its big enough late in the season you will be covered up with Mallards.

How big are your ponds and how are you going to control the water?

Great Job, and good luck.

PS I would love to help you wack some quackers!

Hogguide · Jul 9, 2006

quackwacker said:
I can tell you of 4 areas like you are building that are loaded with ducks every year. If you do it right and its big enough late in the season you will be covered up with Mallards.

How big are your ponds and how are you going to control the water?

Great Job, and good luck.

PS I would love to help you wack some quackers!

Total of this one is about 3 acres, the other pond will be about 4 acres. This area is already a swamp with a low water table. Half of this area stayed about 14" deep last year by itself. It is so dry right now that we are able to get the dozers in. We will take the trackhoe and dig some holes on the other side on the far side of the pond. It has water about 4-5 feet deep there right now. We have a large trash pump that we will use to flood the area when it is time. That plus, hopefully mother nature will help us in this already low area. I will be harrowing and planting seed today and will try to get some more pictures.
Hogguide

matthewsman · Jul 9, 2006

Looks like a good place to stomp around and find some arrowheads too...

Looks like you're gona have it all this year,deer pigs,turks and ducks........... :clap:

rip18 · Jul 9, 2006

What kind of flow rate on your pump?

What kind of water control device on the outflow?

Looks great! It can sometimes be hard to dry those low ponds out enough to plant domesticated crops some years. It helps to manage native vegetation in at least a portion of them - I can't remember the name of the company we got seeds & sprigs from, but it was in either Minnesota or Wisconsin. A quick web search for waterfowl plantings should turn up several options that you can put in next spring/summer....

Good luck!!!

MoeBirds · Jul 9, 2006

Please keep posting your progress with this project

!!

I'd be very interested to see one from start-up to completion and will keep checking back in hopes you do

!!

Hogguide · Jul 9, 2006

matthewsman said:
Looks like you're gona have it all this year,deer pigs,turks and ducks...........

You are exactly right about the arrowheads. This place is eat up with them. It is about 10 miles east of the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds and about 6 miles from the Lamar Mounds on the same side of the river. There apparently was some kind of Indian Encampment on our property as we find lots of pottery pieces, arrow, spear and knife heads as well as a bunch of chirp and rock hand scrapers and other Indian tools. We have even found one hand size rock with a worn hole in it that we suspect was used to start a fire with a stick.

The big dozer got stuck earlier today, got some more pictures of that that I am about to post. We will have a total of 3 duck ponds, all about 2-3 acres each.
I also planted another 10 acre field with brown top millet today for some late season dove hunts.
If we can get the lime truck in there tomorrow with some lime, the corn, lime, Japanese millet, Egyptian Wheat and triple 13 will go in then.

Today's progress, Pond #2

Oops, big dozer gets mired in the mud. It is almost out of sight in the muck.

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The little Dozier is no help. Tried to pull it out to no avail.

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Here comes the Kobelco.

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Track hoe attached with a short cable.

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PULL! PULL! Here it comes. We did take some logs and chained them to the tracks and used the tracks to pull the logs up under the stuck dozer to gain some traction.
That seemed to help.

After a few minutes of pulling, we got it out.

All right. Back to work.

I harrowed the first pond site with the Kubota 5700 and a John Deere 13 ft. Harrow. Now we have to wait on the lime truck.

HG

Hogguide · Jul 10, 2006

10 Tons of lime will be here after lunch. ($35.00 per ton-spread) Going to Get some fertilizer now. We should have these planted this afternoon.
HG

Nicodemus · Jul 10, 2006

Can you post some pics of the artifacts that ya`ll are findin`. In particular, the projectile points and the rock with the hole in it?

Hogguide · Jul 19, 2006

Update:

The Lime Truck came and added 10 tons of lime. Total cost was $345.00 for just a shade under 10 tons. Cost was $35.00 per ton spread. We put lime on 2 Duck Ponds, a small dove/millet field and a 1 acre plot where clover will be planted later towards the Fall.

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A couple more pics of the lime truck in action

Here comes 1600# of 13-13-13

In all, we put in 3 duck ponds. We planted some corn last Wednesday and were astonished when we came back to check on Saturday (4 days) and the corn was nearly 2" tall. I will try to get up some pics of this on my next trip.

Hogguide

Hogguide · Jul 27, 2006

Here are a couple of recent photos of the corn, rice, millet and other stuff comming up in one of the duck ponds.
We got over 2" of rain the other day. This plot got a couple of tons of lime and 400# of 13-13-13.
We have got to drain the corner after the gully washer the other day. Other than that, everything looks good. Hogguide

GeauxLSU · Jul 27, 2006

Great project. Looking forward to viewing the continued progress. Especially the hunt reports!

gacowboy · Jul 30, 2006

Wow , that's a great project. Lot of hard work and effort. You should have an awesome duck honey hole! :clap:

Hogguide · Aug 14, 2006

This was Then, July 8, 2006

This is NOW. August 10, 2006 Look at the corn in the pond and the Japanese millet, pearl millet, Browntop Millet, iron clay peas and soybeans that are planted around the dike.

gacowboy · Aug 14, 2006

For a minute there I envisioned my Lab and I sitting there in a blind!

ramsey · Aug 14, 2006

Very interesting- thanks for posting!

Hogguide · Aug 15, 2006

THunter said:
Do y'all not have deer there?

THunter

There are some, but they have not found this patch yet. I did see a big fat doe the day that I was planting the corn. She was browsing on the edge of the pond and just looked at me riding the tractor for about 15 minutes while she kept on eating. It seemed as if she could care less that I was there. This is the first year that I had really planted any thing on this tract for the deer. We have had a millet field put the soil quality was low PH and it never really grew well. We limed and fertilized this real heavy this year and it shows.
There are hogs in the area and I am praying that they do not find this.
Hogguide

GeauxLSU · Aug 15, 2006

Hogguide said:
There are hogs in the area and I am praying that they do not find this.

I'm sure you of all people know better than that....

Hogguide · Aug 15, 2006

GeauxLSU said:
I'm sure you of all people know better than that....

LOL, yep. I do not feed them anywhere near this piece of property and we shoot everyone that we see there. We only occasionally see a hog track now and then and see where maybe one went thru and rooted up the area. It is not nearly as bad here as in some of my other places like my dove field.
Hogguide

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