Sounds like you have an artesian spring! Pond for you goats and ducks.
Only happened that one year in ten.
Got plenty of hillside seeps after a good rain. Several spots where I could build a pond that would get filled with water that’s been filtered through the soil. Got one up on almost the highest elevation of my property. High enough that a pond/lake could be used to irrigate the garden with no pump.
1/8 mile down the road and 200 feet down the hill in elevation is a Spring that shows up on the old maps and they started setting it up to bottle spring water. Then they figured out they would have needed a huge reverse osmosis machine to remove the lime and that means adding minerals back in so they gave up. The spring is certified by the state but white flakes were appearing in the bottles after sitting on a shelf for months.
I’m hoping when I get a good deep well drilled, it will tap into that same Spring. Hey, I can dream can’t I? No pump required would be sweet.
1) pay off land
2) get pond/lake dug
2) get well drilled