WingedSweetheart
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Some places I've looked online say to freeze them but I'm not sure. Anyone have any advice on a good way to do it so they don't suffer?
Story Time:
I have a pond in my backyard. It has always been very shallow and each summer the mosquitoes swarm it. So my parents have decided to fill the pond in. It is fed by a natural spring and they have put pipes in place for the spring water to go over a nearby hill into a creek. Anyway I decided to save some early frog eggs. I gathered two egg masses. I assumed them to be green frog eggs (and they were) as they weren't as large as bullfrog egg masses.
I intended to hatch them out and then put the little froglets in my aunt's pond across the road from me. But I wanted to grow them some so her fish wouldn't have a buffet and she would have some frogs.
Well out of the hundreds of little tadpoles to hatch I had 8 that grew deformed back legs. They had little to no thigh. Just knee and below. So these little guys could hardly move once they lost their tail. They would have drown if I hadn't of removed them from the water (I removed all new froglets from the water to wet paper towel). But I knew from the beginning that once I put them in my aunts pond they would drown, be eaten my her fish, or eaten by birds. If they managed to survive all that, they would surely starve to death.
Well today was the day I decided to end their suffering. They did eat and poop just as well as their healthy siblings. But they could hardly move and if got flipped on their back, I had to turn them back over. So I decided to let nature have them as that is where they would have died if they had hatched in the wild.
However I feel so bad about it and cried like a baby over these little guys as I placed them in the most shallow water I could find surrounded by leaves. Maybe I should have just tossed them in the deep and let them drown or be eaten. But I couldn't bring myself to do it. :crying:
So, this led me to wonder are there better ways that I could have killed them? Would freezing them have been better? I also heard you could put them in a jar with a cotton ball soaked with something. But I can't remember what you are supposed to soak it with. Would that have been better?
I feel like such a horrible evil person for leaving those little babies to their fate.
Story Time:
I have a pond in my backyard. It has always been very shallow and each summer the mosquitoes swarm it. So my parents have decided to fill the pond in. It is fed by a natural spring and they have put pipes in place for the spring water to go over a nearby hill into a creek. Anyway I decided to save some early frog eggs. I gathered two egg masses. I assumed them to be green frog eggs (and they were) as they weren't as large as bullfrog egg masses.
I intended to hatch them out and then put the little froglets in my aunt's pond across the road from me. But I wanted to grow them some so her fish wouldn't have a buffet and she would have some frogs.
Well out of the hundreds of little tadpoles to hatch I had 8 that grew deformed back legs. They had little to no thigh. Just knee and below. So these little guys could hardly move once they lost their tail. They would have drown if I hadn't of removed them from the water (I removed all new froglets from the water to wet paper towel). But I knew from the beginning that once I put them in my aunts pond they would drown, be eaten my her fish, or eaten by birds. If they managed to survive all that, they would surely starve to death.
Well today was the day I decided to end their suffering. They did eat and poop just as well as their healthy siblings. But they could hardly move and if got flipped on their back, I had to turn them back over. So I decided to let nature have them as that is where they would have died if they had hatched in the wild.
However I feel so bad about it and cried like a baby over these little guys as I placed them in the most shallow water I could find surrounded by leaves. Maybe I should have just tossed them in the deep and let them drown or be eaten. But I couldn't bring myself to do it. :crying:
So, this led me to wonder are there better ways that I could have killed them? Would freezing them have been better? I also heard you could put them in a jar with a cotton ball soaked with something. But I can't remember what you are supposed to soak it with. Would that have been better?
I feel like such a horrible evil person for leaving those little babies to their fate.
