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#65219 02/19/06 09:11 AM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! Bob-O


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Thank you my dear. I have not posted (or worked for that matter) much in the past 2 weeks due to a case of chronic bronchitis topped off with the flu, but I have been following the forum to a certain degree.
How nice it was to log on today and see your message. \:\)

Thanks again,

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Bob-O...nice job keepin' track.
Ms. King, I ditto Bob-O's wish. Hopin' ya feel better soon so you can take advantage of finally being of drinkin' age. ;\)

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Happy Birthday Debra!!


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Happy Birthday Girl

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Happy B-day, D-girl!


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Birthday - good wishes from us all but more importantly get well soon. Its been dry in the humor area !! \:D
















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Happy Birthday! Get well soon! There has been a testosterone emancipation without your input. All we talk about are dozers and magic wangs! \:o \:D :p


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Deb - Have tadpole give you a birthday kiss from all of us (at least the men) on the Pond Boss forum. I referenced a local guy to you about raising bull frogs. Since you are not at work much maybe you missed the call. Get rid of that Bronchitus!


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Best wishes on your birthday and I hope you feel better soon.


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Happy Birthday, Deb!

Some of these guys here drink Scotch older than you are.


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WOW!

This thread is like opening your mailbox and finding a whole bunch of birthday cards. How sweet it is to know that people care.
Thanks again for all of the info you all have provided to me, and thanks for allowing me to post.
I am on the road to recovery, and will soon be throwing some "estrogen" into the posts. \:\)

BTW Theo, if I had some of that 34 plus year old scotch I would probably be well by now. \:D

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Deb I heard you all were the BEST at doing Bull Frogs....Tell me what you guys have...I might be intrested in getting some...

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Sorry I am just now answering the frog question (I forgot what thread it was on). Ken has done extensive research on frog farming. He even spent time in the Amazon and other places overseas just learning "their ways". Now he teaches seminars to prospective farmers who want to go commercial. We stock anything from tadpoles up to 3 year old breeders. It is amazing what nature (and chemical applications) have done to the "natural" bullfrog populations. I could show you slides of deformed frogs that would make you sick to your stomach. When raised in captivity the survival rate is so much higher. In the wild a mother frog will lay x number of eggs. Nature has it designed so that about 1%-3% hatch out first, then the next 1%-3% hatch out several weeks later and become food for the first batch. In captivity you can sort out each batch to get a better survival rate.
If you just want to stock tadpoles in your pond (not interested in going commercial), expect about a 50% loss by predators. In other words stock 100 if you want 50 to live.
I could talk about frogs all day long (that is why Ryan is nicknamed tadpole). Frogs are really neat.

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Well Deb where on your sight do I find out about frogs? and how much are they? I want REALLY BIG ones...

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Big Pond get the catalog it has about six pages on frogs

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You would all croak on all the info I thought I knew about frogs. They are great fun and taste like chicken (or so I have been told).


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Deb as you know I grew up in Atlanta but Mom and Dad were raised in the 1930s in middle Georgia. We would go "home" most weekends when I was a kid. This is where my love of ponds and bream came from. Most saturday suppers were what my sister called "critter night". Fried fish, quail, doves, turtle soup, squirrel stew, All was good(sis disagrees) But my favorite was frog legs. Friday night the boys and young men would go gigging; skeeters, snakes, tall tales and a couple stolen beers. Frog legs were soaked in milk saturday breaded in meal and fried. Wish I had one now.

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First of all, good to see ya in print, Ms. King!
Now....this frog stuff interests me. What are the limitations on a midwest pond? We are going out of our way to leave an area as a small wetland for just that kinda thing. Frogs don't make it thru the winter...do they?

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Brettski,
I believe frogs hibernate in the mud when it's cold. I used to frog-gig in Feb. when we had an Indian Summer .

Bill,
Great childhood memories! Except for the beer, I think I was with you!
We were too dumb to consider sneeking a beer.
Man those were good times!


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Bill :

While you are at it send me some frog legs with the peanuts. \:D My parents and I used to go to this fish house to eat and they would order fish or shrimp but I would order a big plate of frog legs. I am getting hungry thinking about it.
















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The best was 3 or 4 in a jon boat, one holding a flashlight, one paddling toward a frog, one with the gig, all trying to stay quite. This is with skeeters, standing up in a small boat and yes the beer was gone. Plus this was fun but we came from a middle class family you had better bring supper home

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The really amazing thing about frogs is the virtually untapped market here in the US. Close to 95% of frog legs are imported from overseas. If someone had some upfront $, extra time, an indoor facility, and some patience, there is a high demand for raising frogs here in the States. Frog legs can bring up to $8.00 per lb, the pelts can sell for about $3.00-$5.00 a pop, and schools will pay from $15.00 to $20.00 per frog for biology classes. I could take up the added bandwidth that Lusk purchased talking about frogs. Don't leave out the "southern charm" that bullfrogs bring on a warm summer's evening. Frog farming is a GREAT idea for anyone close to retirement to consider. If any of you are at that point I am sure you are like my dad (can't imagine sitting around with time on his hands).
Can't say that I have ever eaten one myself though, sorry. But then again I stopped eating fresh water fish after about my 200th dissection. Hope I never have to dissect a crab or shrimp...my life would abruptly end.


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Hey everyone, I'm with Grettski, REAL glad ta see ya postin!! I was gonna start a new thread on frogs, but since I started this one, and it was with good wishes, decided to keep it here. BG, I'm with you about too many "happy poeple" tryin ta poke frogs. Pure exciteing, controlled folly! Once my son in law and I were out in a 10' jon boat with a gig that was way too long (I was in the back and constantly was blapped in the head), and as the beer cans mysteriously were all empty, started ta hand catch em. Surpriseingly, we caught lots (I think). The big daddy was 16 1/4". Big Pond, livin in Georga, you have a lot longer season than us Hoosiers, and should be able ta grow whoppers. Deb, you'll probably know, but I've heard that when they hibernate, their heart only beats once every 5 minutes, and that they obsorb oxygen through their skin. Dump some more info on us, I think they're very interesting. I know they ARE yummy!
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