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have you got a pond?
I've read that if you move spawn from 1 pond to another you might be spreading some disease, not sure if that's a problem where you are.
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No pond I am afraid and the spawn is in rain puddles that are beginning to dry out.

I used to raise newts from eggs supplied by a conservationist which enabled me to get a newt colony going and surviving in my pond when I was in England many years ago, so..... just for a challenge if their location continues to dry out I will collect some and see how we go.
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we were up at a New Forest campsite last weekend and there were hundreds of little froglets around the edges of the pond.
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If you do collect some and grow it up .....
taddies in the pond used to love the fish food, though there is also a lot of natural food in there too.

Chickens love frog taddies, NoM! my girls cleared a pond, and ate most of the adults too
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Had toadpoles only this year, no idea if any survived the ladies from Hell, I certainly didn't spot any growing up after they hatched.
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HedgeHugger wrote:Chickens love frog taddies, NoM! my girls cleared a pond, and ate most of the adults too


We had a right shock last year when we first started keeping chickens...we saw
one had caught a frog in the garden and was quite happily eating it! So much for chickens being cute feathery and loveable! Illusions shattered!! We had so much to learn!!!
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We've had to rescue goldfish from the chickens.

It's what they do to the frog to make them fit that makes me cringe. yike* Can't watch, leave them to it. Pretend I didn't see...!
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