Re: [GSAS-Member] pond discussions

[Steev Ward <steevward@yahoo.com>]

On the bright side: I just checked, and the koi in big pond are laying eggs 
like crazy.
Thanks Connie, for helping get that pond ready - it worked! I think I'll go 
collect
some eggs.

Steev


--- Betty Goetz <haika@drizzle.com> wrote:

> I know I know....I've been through similar experiences with my chickens
> and raccoons (sigh). I put heavy metal dog crate wire floor pieces over my
> smaller mini-ponds (because my dogs EAT waterlilies....grump), but I'm
> thinking the stock ponds are too deep/high. Maybe I'm naive (weak
> grin).....I've heard of swimming raccoons but not ones that dive down
> roughly 4'.
> 
> Betty Goetz - PONDering the raccoon issue (get it????)
> 
> >     I try to take every precaution against racoon assaults, but I just
> > lost one 10 inch
> > koi yesterday. I was keeping him in a large tub, with a lid, because he
> > seemed skinnier
> > than the rest and I left the lid off so I could watch and see if he was
> > eating his
> > food. I forgot to put it back on before I went to bed and the next day he
> > was in pieces
> > on the lawn.
> >      It guess it takes something like that to remind me to not take
> > chances when it
> > comes to raccoons.
> >
> > Steev
> 
> _____ 


      
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