On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:33:50 -0600, Zëbulon wrote:

THANK YOU! I also have permission from the owner of that pond to release
my culls there.

Unless you can net it, better not... according to what you say below that
I should do.

So you think it's OK to release "diseased" fish in farm ponds?

Since when is a "cull" a diseased fish? Carol, stay within the message of
the thread you're posting to. Us simple minded folk get quite confused
otherwise.

Let me know when you net yours and I'll speak to the owners of the stock
ponds about netting theirs. ;-)

Riiiiight.

OK, I haven't. All we see here are the small herons and cranes which stay
around the lake. They're not known to bother ornamental ponds here.

Then why say "in a previous thread" GBHeron are "around"?

You have no idea what I do either so why ACCUSE me of doing anything?

Cause you tell us every day? I can find you in half a dozen forums. You
won't see me telling my life story everywhere.

Heck, right now you're having a jolly time beating the horse, cheap chow
topic, to death in NGP.

For all I know herons can be carrying your DISEASED fish and dropping them all
over the place, in all the ponds, rivers and lakes in your area.

If I had diseased fish, they'd be pulled out to QT or put down before a
heron could sail in.... but truth be told, my ponds must be pretty
inaccessible to them, because I've had GB herons in my yard and on my roof
and not had a koi taken (yet). Doing the winter the ponds are screened.

How do you know what I plan to do in the future?

I don't need crystal balls or tea leaves when I have the internet. Just
read what you type here, there and everywhere, it isn't hard to figure out.

Are you going to send me pox infested fish Jan? I know
this will disappoint you but I don't have anymore with pox. Can you handle
that? So were do you think I'll get them from? The culls yes. Why does
that bother you so much? Why does it get your goat that the farmers allow
this for mosquito control?

The above is all lashing out again, a total joke.

WELL haven't you?

Nope, just been discussing the topic.

Since when did you treat other posters like this?

I think I've treated you as fairly as any other posters who posts & replies
like you.

You never even said a word about these stock ponds and my culls and I mention
them every year at least. Suddenly *NOW*... you have so much to say about
the subject. Why is that?

I only speak up when there is no one else who mentioned it. And basically
there are few of us left.

Well than you're not at all concerned about Nature are you?

Lashing out, hypocritical accusation.

You're going on
and on about putting culls in a farm pond while at the same time you let the
herons carry off your fish and drop them in the rivers and lakes all over
the place. What's the difference? You have no nets and the farmer's have no
nets = same thing! :-)))

Covered that. :-))))))

And I'm pointing out that it could happen in your own pond, but instead of
looking at your own ponds where fish can be carried away, you look at the
farmer's pond and go on and on about it, knowing full well no pond is 100%
disease and parasite free.

The only person going on and on is you.

This one takes the cake though - Pot (jan) calling kettles (farmers) black.
It's ok for the herons to drop your fish everywhere but not culls from a
farmer's pond........

Your argument is so full of holes it is ridi.... ah furgetaboutit! ~ jan