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bsewnsew


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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 2:04 am   Post subject:


I have frogs yearly in my dams where the cattle drink .
They are in my flower beds , an i let them live there.
I dont know if they die or not, but sure see them an hear them yearly. Today they were under my mums.
I have a birdbath an mums all around it .Huge froggie was hiding under that.
I dont kill them. The are insect eaters.

b

ps we are zone 5, an had 4 ft of snow last winter. Still have frogs out there. they bury themselves in the mud for the winter.




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drissel122

Southern New Jersey
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:32 pm   Post subject:


I bet that's a funny sight when the frogs scare the dogs. Imagining it made me laugh!


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gardentoad

Indiana
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:00 pm   Post subject:


I tried the pan of mud idea and it didn't; work here in central Indiana. I would find dead frogs in my pond every spring right after thaw. I tried heaters and floating a light too. My pond would freeze deeper than the opening of the skimmer and the water would stop circulating.
I built a stream in another area and left it run all winter The beginning of the stream is only a couple inches and the lower end is 3 feet deep. I remove some floating leaves and clean the skimmer in the fall but I leave a layer of leaves on the bottom that I net out in the spring. The water runs underneath the snow and ice all winter and the frogs survived. I think with my first pond the pump was not strong enough to keep the ice from damming at the skimmer.This winter I will take the pump out of the skimmer and set it in the larger pond area to keep the water moving but not have the waterfall.

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