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05-19-2004, 02:18 PM
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Ooooooh 
This is all about teeth, not about eating walnuts you know. 
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05-19-2004, 06:46 PM
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Wants a Howitzer
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They are adorable 
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Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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05-20-2004, 08:27 AM
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Little fish in a big pond
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I used to feed my rodents (mice, rat and guinea pig) dog biscuits (ie: milk bone) to wear down their teeth. They had a blast with paper towel rolls, shoe boxes and stuff like that.
Be careful with acorns... one autum when I was about 12, I collected a sack of them from my yard, to feed the mice over the winter. I put the sack on the floor in my room, with my other pet supplies, and a few days later, my carpet was CRAWLING with little slugs... larvae of some sort. The warm room air caused them to hatch/emerge from their nut... it was one of the grossest things! In hindsight I should probably have put the acorns in the freezer. I vacuumed them all up - they did not want to let go of the carpet... ewwww.... and threw out the vac bag... NASTY. I tossed the bag of acorns outside and never did that again. I still get the heebie-geebies just thinking about it...
Jenn
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05-20-2004, 10:35 AM
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TRT Staff The Mominator
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YUCK, Jenn! 
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05-20-2004, 10:54 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Alice
YUCK, Jenn!
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Ditto,,,Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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05-20-2004, 11:03 AM
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Little fish in a big pond
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Yep it was freaky... my navy blue carpet had all these little white spots all over it, about pea-sized. They wiggled!!! 
Like summink in a horror movie!
I have never brought another acorn indoors since. When my kids were small, they picked acorns in the yard... I marched them right back outside again when they brought them in!!!
Jenn
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05-20-2004, 02:54 PM
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Stress Monger
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If your really interested in picking/using acorns for animal food. Place them in a 400 degree oven for about 20-30 minutes, mixing them around every 4-5 mintues. thius will kill off any bugs/larvae/eggs on the pouside and still leave the inside basically uncooked and healthier.
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05-20-2004, 03:43 PM
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Little fish in a big pond
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Where were you 25 years ago when I needed that advice?? 
Jenn
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05-20-2004, 07:49 PM
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The Border Collie Mod
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Jenn, friends of ours in Miami gave us acorns last fall. They had the same maggots in them!
Of course I was smart enough to keep ours in a zip-lock.
LOL
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05-20-2004, 10:50 PM
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Eat more PIE
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05-21-2004, 01:32 AM
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Stress Monger
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I've used the same process for the acorns on Bird seed (for parrots, we used to breed them) to keep the "seed moths" under control... |
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