If you’re raising ducks you’ll know that these birds poop and they poop a whole lot. They can poop in their duck houses, out on the grass, and in the pools that they swim in
This article explores everything you need to know when it comes to ducks pooping in your pool
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Duck poop stains in the pool:
Ducks can poop every 20 minutes, they have not evolved to need to control where and when they poop, unfortunately, this can mean that they will poop in your pool.
How to get duck poop stains off of your pool walls:
If you have duck stains at the bottom of your pool then you likely have duck poop floating around the pool that you’d need to clean, this is how to do this:
Start off by wearing boots, gloves, and goggles to protect yourself before you start to clean the pool.
Drain the pool of all its water and then clean out the muck at the bottom of the pool by shoveling it out or using a water-safe vacuum cleaner.
Once all the muck is out you’d need to move on to getting rid of the stains. Duck poop stains are quite stubborn but aren’t impossible to clean up
Start off by scrubbing the poop using a stiff brush to try to get the stains out, some stains will come out but some will not
You will need to shock the pool if the stains don’t come out through brushing. Shock the pool at night to keep sunlight from breaking up the chlorine, also, make sure that your pool is on when you start this process.
Before you shock the pool test your pool using a liquid test kit or test strips to check your pool’s pH and alkalinity levels.
The recommended pH and alkalinity levels of your pool should be a pH between 7.4 and 7.6 and the alkalinity in the pool should be between 100 and 150 ppm.
Make sure that your pool starts off at these levels, this will ensure that the chlorine works when you add it to the pool
You’d then need to shock the pool using pool shock, ie: calcium hypochlorite, in order to get the free chlorine in the pool up.
You would need 2 ounces of pool shock per 10 000 gallons of water to do this, calculate how much pool shock you need for your pool before buying the amount of pool shock that you need.
You can alternately calculate this at the pool store with assistance from an employee.
Pour the pool shock into a bucket filled with water to create a mixture, mix the shock and water using a stirring stick, do this slowly to keep it from splashing.
Once dissolved, you can carefully pour this mixture into your pool.
The chlorine needs to be raised by 30 ppm or more for this to be effective so adding 60 ounces of pool shock per 10 000 gallons of water will be effective to get the chlorine levels up to 30 ppm.
Keep your pool running for at least 8 or 12 hours for this to be effective and to allow the shock to spread throughout the pool.
Test the pool to make sure that the chlorine concentration in your pool is maintained at 30 ppm the whole time.
You may have to shock the pool two or three times to get the stains out.
If you need to, you can remove some of the stains using muriatic acid. This won’t be too big of a task if there aren’t too many stains in the pool.
Can you potty train a duck?
Unfortunately no, you cannot potty train a duck. You may be able to train your ducks to do a number of things, but you can’t train these birds to go potty at a certain place and at a certain time.
While you can’t potty train a duck you can control where the duck poops by using a duck diaper on the bird
Using a diaper on your duck while the bird is in the pool may not work but you can use it while the bird is outside of the pool
Diapering your ducks will allow them to poop freely while keeping their poop contained, it also allows you to cuddle up to the bird and interact with it without having it poop everywhere.
If you choose to do this make sure that you take the diaper off of the duck to allow it to preen itself
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