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Post by jolovespiggies on Oct 15, 2015 17:27:25 GMT
I understand Piggles love that they are no everyone's cup of tea but I do love them very much. Ha ha Bean love, I bet you do LOL!! Yes, The Family Hermie-Hugs is rather sweet, they do not really have individual names as hermies keep changing shells and it is hard to keep up. Thank you for your interest ladies, it is much appreciated.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by bobbieszoo on Dec 1, 2015 5:17:29 GMT
How AWESOME! I LOVE snails, where did you get them? I draw the line at cockroaches, but have had millipedes and a few rescue Mantis that just lived on my house plants and I would hand feed.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 1, 2015 21:14:53 GMT
I had them from a very knowlegeable lady who lives in Finland although there are places in the UK where they can be bought. She is great when I get into a panic if I think something is wrong because I really love them. Tank is a bit over crowded at the moment as I am looking after some for someone else but it is wonderful to see them take their baths, munch at their food and blow bubbles at me in a reprimand if I move them when doing a spot clean in the morning. Someone in there has just laid a clutch of eggs and I feel like a proud granny LOL! Millipedes are adorable I to have had these as well as mantids and a few others like large beetles. I used to love hand feeding my mantids too, they are gorgeous. I understand that cockroaches are not to everyone's taste but I adore mine. Rosie had babies a little while ago and today I have had to send them back to the lady I bought them from originally. Tank space is a at a bit of a premium at the moment and there wasn't room for everyone. There were about 30 babies so you can just imagine.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 2, 2015 14:30:40 GMT
Bobbieszoo, where did you get the mantises(mantae?) I have so many house plants, I have a fabulous setting for them? I've never even though about getting them, before, but since they eat pests, it would be great to have some
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 3, 2015 20:24:03 GMT
They are lovely Piggles hun, I really wish I still had them. Keeping them on houseplants is a great idea, better than keeping them in a plastic tube with a bramble twig. I could recommend a couple of good places in the UK but that is no good to you obviously. Please kéep me informed. I am all excited for you now! Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 4, 2015 15:35:13 GMT
I would have to get hubby's approval, obviously, but having a natural way to get rid of pests on my plants could be a great option to even the most organic insecticidal sprays.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 5, 2015 14:59:38 GMT
A good argument too Piggles love, if they get rid of the pests. A very good reason for getting them when talking it over with hubby. Please keep me updated.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 5, 2015 16:59:29 GMT
Not looking good for the mantis pet. They eat live food, and while they probably would eat the flies that come in on the plants each Fall, they would need a supply of crickets, moths and other things they would find outdoors, but not indoors. I won't buy live food for any pet, so it was a good idea while it lasted!
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 5, 2015 19:59:10 GMT
Yes I can see your point love. Why does everything have to eat everything, us included. Wouldn't it be nice if we found all our sustenance in a simple drink of water?
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 6, 2015 16:49:41 GMT
We could probably survive on some super algae or something, but getting people to do it would be impossible. I often wonder how many of our chronic illnesses would disappear, if we ate a paleo diet? Did early humans have heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, etc.? I don't know.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 6, 2015 21:24:07 GMT
Another great post Piggles love and yes, I wonder. When I watch documentaries about tribal people in places like Africa they often have such perfect white teeth and we know for a fact that they haven't been to have any tooth whitening. They are also rarely overweight. I do wish there were a substitute for the food we eat, it would be wonderful if everything was left to enjoy its life happily.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 6, 2015 21:26:14 GMT
Oh I meatt to say, my snailies have laid eggs!! I cannot keep all of them unfortunately as we would be over run but I am going to see if I can hatch a few. It shows that snailies are happy and that is the main thing.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 7, 2015 16:28:03 GMT
Good luck catching some snailie babies I'm glad they are all happy. I think they have the same basic, earth-bound diet we had up to WWII. We ate what we grew or raised. We tended to eat a lot of saturated fats, which were okay as long as we worked them off, but the same diet was eaten by office workers who didn't plow the north 40 after lunch, and they tended to get really fat. Elderly who had slowed down and were letting the younger people do the hard work also got fat, and that led to heart disease and early death. Different people eat different things depending on where they live and what's available, as is still seen today. Coastal areas have the freshest catch of the day, farming areas have the most recently butchered meats, any place that can grow fruits and veggies has whatever veggies and fruits they can grow in their climate and soil. Now, we get everything from everywhere, but the shipping costs make it expensive, and so many of us live in cities are restricted villages like mine, that we can't plant veggies or fruit trees, and feed ourselves. We used to grow the veggies on the balcony, but the constant watering rotted the wood, so we had to stop. We hope to have the porches at the next place made of composite wood, so they are warp and water resistant. We could eat all natural, low carb, totally unprocessed food, if we could all afford to drive to a farmers market and get locally grown items, but we can't. Even organic foods in supermarkets aren't guaranteed not to have GMOs, pesticides and inorganic fertilizers coming in from surrounding fields. The death of the family farm was probably the worst thing possible for our diets.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 7, 2015 19:36:06 GMT
Please wish me luck, I really hope that I manage to raise some at least. I don't believe any label I read anymore Piggles love. They have a clever way of lying to us and making it sound OK.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by Bean on Dec 8, 2015 9:26:30 GMT
Good luck with hatching your eggs, Jo! I don't blame you not keeping them all - they lay a lot!
Cavemen probably died of much more mundane things like infections and contagious diseases that we can now prevent - with that and being more exposed to the elements, they didn't tend to live to the ages where you tend to get all the arthritis and heart disease type illnesses. Plus we get those earlier due to bad diets and inactivity which they won't have had much problem with! Of course if you were born with physical restrictions meaning you couldn't graft, things weren't so easy for you back then.
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 8, 2015 15:45:44 GMT
Best of luck, Jo You're so right, Bean. The Good Old Days weren't all that good for many people, and while we rarely die from influenza, broken bones and infections anymore, we have no idea who many of the current ailments we do suffer from come from meds we take, foods we eat and our general life style. They didn't have the doctors, or even the quality of medical care we have now, but it's so expensive, either we work ourselves to the bone to pay for it, or we get the minimum available. Still better than nothing. They didn't have sugar and salt, which are two of our major problem foods. They did have a lot of fat, as they ate whatever they could kill, and had to eat every bit of the animal. The animals they ate weren't given antibiotics, nor where they fed GMO feed, so right there, their animals were probably better for them than ours are for us. They didn't cure foods, except for air drying, either, so no smoke or salt added to the meat. I think we have problems coming at us from all directions, now, and if nothing else, we have a lot of stress on us to succeed in ways our culture considers to be good. That's never been easy, and I think it's gotten harder throughout the generations.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 8, 2015 20:29:04 GMT
Thank you ladies. My baby snails are doing well too, growing rather too well considering the size of the tank but if they grow much more, the lady who owns them is going to have to come and pick them up. Talk about little hungry tummies, there is no filling them LOL!!
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 9, 2015 21:37:33 GMT
That's wonderful
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Post by Whimsy on Dec 10, 2015 0:52:21 GMT
Wow...I didn't even know you could have snails etc. as pets. Interesting, but please don't post a picture of Fluffy. I just can't handle any kind of spiders. I really don't know how you do it :-)
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 10, 2015 15:26:52 GMT
I'm the same way with snakes, Whimsy!
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