I forgot about that! I didn't want the butterfly to be chopped up by the fan. Also, they wear themselves out trying to fly through the plastic to escape. It's not unusual to relocate 2 or 3 a day during the summer. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 love It. Gonna collect platys from Waller creek I will let you know how it goes gonna try line breeding first time breeding anything really
I appreciate the knowledge and respect for living creatures in these videos, Charles, so a very humble, enthusiastic thank you, and I think you do a great job! I would have loved to see the new breeding groups of Sailfins being placed into their new homes - the barrels or ponds? And I'd love to see another video when you harvest the two Sailfin colonies... Anyway, thanks so much for these videos! I sure appreciate your work.
We currently house all of our fish in barrels and vats in the greenhouses. In the past I have used outdoor raceways for summertime breeding (tropical fish outdoor growing period here is at least nine months). We are planning to make some raceways in the next few weeks. Some of the fish will be transferred to them. In future videos I'll show us setting the fish up for breeding. Charles
Great job Stormy🦋🤗🙏 I had never seen the high- fins before coming onto TH-cam. The colors and that hyphen when they're displaying makes them such beautiful beautiful fish!! It's always a great day when you get to start off with a lesson from Mr. Charles 💪🧠 I don't have enough knowledge to explain genetics myself, but I have enough knowledge to understand it 😁 As always I enjoyed the discussion and appreciated you showing us what you look for in your breeding colony!! Great stuff guys!! Much love Mr Charles, Susie, Carl and Stormy!! Have a wonderful day!!🙏🤗🌿🐟🌿💚
Genetics is a great tool when breeding fish or really anything. Once I get some better markers, I'll do some Punnett squares for some very complicated crosses. Charles
It warmed my heart to see you go help that butterfly. 💖 Thanks for the info on the Hi Fin gene. I'm new to Platies. I didn't know about the homozygous lethal aspect of the Hi Fin gene. Absolutely fascinating! Really appreciate the info. I'm keeping Platies for the first time right now. Gonna put some out in a small tub pond for the summer. 😊
I couldn't let the butterfly get chopped up in the fan or marooned in the greenhouse. Platies do very well outside for the summer. Good luck with them! Charles
Love everything about this farm. And love that Charles is so into all animals, there are not many people that would drop everything to help a butterfly like that. I love it, we need more people like you.
In your example (1:34) of breeding Simpson heterozygous high fins, I believe you wanted to say that 50% would be high fin (heterozygous) 25% would be low fin (homozygous recessive) and 25% would be homozygous dominant or lethal. This is the famous heterozygous cross, except in this example it is the homozygous dominant that suffers. In most classroom examples it is the homozygous recessive that gets the short end of the stick. Cheers, Chris
True, but false. The problem is that you cannot really count the dominant ones because they aren't even born. So the end result is more like 2/3 high fins, and 1/3 low fins.
@@ezrahn Yup. This is why actual genetic experimentation is so difficult. Figuring out that the homozygous dominant is lethal takes a lot of work. I just wanted to point out that it was not 75%, which I'm sure Charles knows.
I hate watching my own videos, so I refuse to go back and check this. Yes, due to the homozygous lethal, the expected ratio of hifin to normal when mating hifin to hifin would be 2:1. But, with the true breeding hifin gene a heterozygous hifin to heterozygous hifin would yield the typical 3:1 hifin to normal. And a homozygous hifin to normal would yield 100% hifin. Charles
We have a whiteboard and once I find markers that work well in the humid greenhouses I'll start drawing Punnett squares to demonstrate some interesting genetics. Charles
Such awesome information.The knowledge you share is very much appreciated. This video reminds me of my high school biology teacher. In my school the biology course was normally only available to juniors and seniors. After talking with the biology teacher a few times with my mother(before the beginning of the school year), he agreed to let me enroll in the class as a freshman. He spent many hours after school, answering questions I had and teaching me things I wanted to know. Thank you for your videos, much respect.
Thank you for your kind words and for watching our videos. I like to imagine while doing these videos that you are standing there and we're having a conversation. When I was in high school here in Texas, biology was a freshman course. But juniors and seniors could take an optional Advanced Science course that was advanced biology and chemistry. It sounds like you had a great teacher. Charles
Thank you, I try. I have a whiteboard I'd like to use to draw Punnett squares to make it easier to understand the genetics, but the markers I have don't work well in the humid greenhouses. I'm looking for better markers and will do Punnett squares in the future. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 It is really interesting. I started my own experiment with breeding female guppies I like with endlers males I also like. The results, though mixed, has given me some interesting and exiting colors and patterns I was not expecting. I have only had accidental color mixtures with Platies... Never expected a male dwarf balloon and a full size female red wag make a dwarf balloon red wag let alone for the little guy to be able to breed with such a larger girl. 😅 But I had only been in the hobby for a month
I love how you explain the genetics behind these beautiful fish! The science seems to be the least enjoyable aspect for most people, but I find it fascinating.
Genetics is a wonderful tool when breeding anything. Fortunately in xiphophorines (swords, platies, variatus) there is a wealth of genetic information available. Here's a link to a very good site: www.xiphophorus.txstate.edu/ Charles
Your hifin variatus breeder males are amazing! I don’t know anybody that puts effort into creating beautiful dorsals on them, but yours look great! I just got a few pairs from an LFS to do some line breeding and see if I can create a line with a large beautiful dorsal.
Mrs. Thelma Simpson in Los Angeles . Her house was supposedly stuffed with tanks .Between her and Dr. Joanne Norton, the distaff half did a lot for fancy livebearers. Love these type of discussions .
Thank you. I can never remember Mrs. Simpson's first name. Maybe I will now. Dr. Norton and used to correspond about livebearers. She forced me to write a couple of articles for the American Livebearer Association's bulletin. Charles
WOW - you have butterflies. I haven't seen any in the desert where I live for literally YEARS... used to have all kinds of butterflies and insects, seems all we have now are a few angry bees and some bothersome flies. Even the tarantula hawk wasps are scarce, didn't see any last year at all. Glad you rescued the butterfly, I would have, too...
Genetics are so interesting but it can be so difficult to follow, the high fin that is homozygous lethal is actually somewhat similar to the gene for sickle cell disorder, heterozygous for sickle cell helps to fight off malaria but when homozygous it causes a lot of health issues such as anemia. the sickle cell gene originated in Africa where malaria is so prevalent that the gene stuck around despite the potential for health problems. I'm sure there are also other examples but i cant think of any off the top of my head.
Sickle cell anemia is a good human example, although it isn't as lethal as hifin in xiphophorines wherein hifin homozygotes don't make it to birth. Sickle cell homozygotes often survive to puberty, but rarely beyond. With sickle cell in malarial regions, the heterozygotes are superior to either homozygotes. It would be interesting if someday a translocation would place the two alleles on the same chromosome so that anyone inheriting that chromosome would be resistant to malaria but would not pass on sickle cell anemia. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 that could have theoretically already happened but since it has no negative effect on the life of the individuals it hasn't been discovered. As humans we are a lot faster to recognize the bad.
Great information thanks for sharing, I think this must be the cause of folk buying the so called cauliflower red-eyed Red swordtails and not producing fry or is that something different.
The complete lack of fry wouldn't be explained by this. A few years ago I paid an exorbitant price for some red-eyed red hifin swords. They weren't cauliflowers, but were spectacular. They produced zero fry. I suspect they had been treated with sub-lethal doses of arsenic, which can sterilize fish. An alternative treatment that can cause sterility is high doses of acriflavine. Charles
Yes, the standard hifin allele in Xiphophorus species is a dominant homozygous lethal. As a result, when mating two hifins together you'll yield 2/3 hifins instead of the expected 3/4 hifins. It also means that all hifins are heterozygous. The exception is what I call "true-breeding hifin" which is not lethal. In strains with that characteristic you can yield 100% hifins after weeding out the recessive normal dorsal from the population. This characteristic has been reported by two other breeders. Charles
Charles is a real life radagast!!! Lol you know that old animal wizard who had birds living in his beard and rabbits pulling his sled from the movie/book "THE HOBBIT"...lol awesome informative video as usual Charles you are a weath of knowledge;!!!!!
Thank you! You should have seen our employee Stormy dancing around yesterday when a large roach somehow got on her back. Too bad we had no video of that. Charles
Yes. I don't know if I stated that wrong in the video and refuse to watch it to see. When mating two hifins, you'd expect 2:1 hifins to normals. Unless, of course, you were dealing with the true-breeding hifin gene. Charles
That would depend on whether the parents are heterozygous or homozygous for longfin. So far as I know, longfin (a dominant allele [version of a gene]) is not homozygous lethal in Ancistrus. That means a longfin fish can be homozygous. Here are the possible matings and expect outcomes. Both parents are homozygous for longfin. 100% longfin offspring. One parent is homozygous longfin, the other is normal fins. 100% longfin offspring. Both parents are heterozygous. 75% longfins, 25% normals. One parent is heterozygous longfin, the other normal. 50% longfins, 50% normal. Charles
HI! HOW ARE YOU? IN YOUR OPINION, WHICH IS EASIER TO BREEDING PLATYS OR MOLLIES? I ASK YOU BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER RAISED THEM, FOR ME YOUR OPINION IS VERY VALUABLE. GREAT YOUR GENETIC CLASS ABOUT THEM.REGARDS FROM BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
Platys are a bit more tolerant than most mollies to water conditions, especially ammonia and nitrite. Platys can handle lower water temperatures than all mollies except for Poecilia latipinna and its hybrids. P. latipinna is the sailfin molly native to the US and is very cold tolerant. Under aquarium conditions both are easy to raise. Mollies have larger fry and are less cannibalistic than platys and their relatives swordtails. Charles
I wasnt being sarcastic....if we as dominant species on planet we will kill every thing and ultimately ourselves, so we need to protect the flora and fauna as it keeps us alive too and make it a better planet to live on too.. even the mosquitoes the fish in the rivers need them and the insect eating birds... Sadly I understand they carry diseases but I disagree with trying to kill them off via genetic manipulation , Tinker with them so they dont carry disease would be better imo. Sorry rant over!
I love your style dude. I have been a groundskeeper for 10+ years and the type of stewardship you exhibit only comes from being deeply connected with your property.
Thank you. This land has been in my family since 1870. The house Susie and I live in was built by my great grandfather in 1908. There isn't a square foot of it I haven't trod at some point. I've lived elsewhere, but always knew I'd return here and did in 2000. Charles
Last night I went out to check the greenhouses and found two pairs of Texas Toads mating after our recent rains. I briefly thought of videoing them, but wasn't sure that would meet community standards. Charles
Could Mrs Simpson's first name be Marge ? 🤣. Sorry I'm bringing down the channel with my childish humour. Thanks Charles ,Suzi , Stormy and Fred the butterfly and also Fred the bird.
I love that he just drops everything because there's a butterfly in need
All Fred lives matter❤️🙏🦋🤗
I forgot about that! I didn't want the butterfly to be chopped up by the fan. Also, they wear themselves out trying to fly through the plastic to escape. It's not unusual to relocate 2 or 3 a day during the summer.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 love
It. Gonna collect platys from Waller creek I will let you know how it goes gonna try line breeding first time breeding anything really
@@NewLocalAustin Let me know how your collecting trip goes.
Charles
I truly believe the world would be a better place with more people like you. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Charles
Love your passion and care for all these living creatures...frogs, snakes, butterflies, and of course fish. Lol!!
I love living things, most of which (except for the fish) were here on the farm before I was.
Charles
I appreciate the knowledge and respect for living creatures in these videos, Charles, so a very humble, enthusiastic thank you, and I think you do a great job! I would have loved to see the new breeding groups of Sailfins being placed into their new homes - the barrels or ponds? And I'd love to see another video when you harvest the two Sailfin colonies... Anyway, thanks so much for these videos! I sure appreciate your work.
We currently house all of our fish in barrels and vats in the greenhouses. In the past I have used outdoor raceways for summertime breeding (tropical fish outdoor growing period here is at least nine months). We are planning to make some raceways in the next few weeks. Some of the fish will be transferred to them.
In future videos I'll show us setting the fish up for breeding.
Charles
Great job Stormy🦋🤗🙏
I had never seen the high- fins before coming onto TH-cam. The colors and that hyphen when they're displaying makes them such beautiful beautiful fish!! It's always a great day when you get to start off with a lesson from Mr. Charles 💪🧠
I don't have enough knowledge to explain genetics myself, but I have enough knowledge to understand it 😁 As always I enjoyed the discussion and appreciated you showing us what you look for in your breeding colony!! Great stuff guys!! Much love Mr Charles, Susie, Carl and Stormy!! Have a wonderful day!!🙏🤗🌿🐟🌿💚
Genetics is a great tool when breeding fish or really anything. Once I get some better markers, I'll do some Punnett squares for some very complicated crosses.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 yes💯🙌❤️
It warmed my heart to see you go help that butterfly. 💖 Thanks for the info on the Hi Fin gene. I'm new to Platies. I didn't know about the homozygous lethal aspect of the Hi Fin gene. Absolutely fascinating! Really appreciate the info. I'm keeping Platies for the first time right now. Gonna put some out in a small tub pond for the summer. 😊
I couldn't let the butterfly get chopped up in the fan or marooned in the greenhouse.
Platies do very well outside for the summer. Good luck with them!
Charles
Great info. And DANG you guys make some stunning fish.
Thank you. We try to give good information produce good fish.
Charles
Love everything about this farm. And love that Charles is so into all animals, there are not many people that would drop everything to help a butterfly like that. I love it, we need more people like you.
I don't like to see anything die due to something I've done. I placed the fan there and put the butterfly at risk. I had to save it.
Charles
❤️
In your example (1:34) of breeding Simpson heterozygous high fins, I believe you wanted to say that 50% would be high fin (heterozygous) 25% would be low fin (homozygous recessive) and 25% would be homozygous dominant or lethal. This is the famous heterozygous cross, except in this example it is the homozygous dominant that suffers. In most classroom examples it is the homozygous recessive that gets the short end of the stick.
Cheers,
Chris
True, but false. The problem is that you cannot really count the dominant ones because they aren't even born. So the end result is more like 2/3 high fins, and 1/3 low fins.
@@ezrahn Yup. This is why actual genetic experimentation is so difficult. Figuring out that the homozygous dominant is lethal takes a lot of work. I just wanted to point out that it was not 75%, which I'm sure Charles knows.
I hate watching my own videos, so I refuse to go back and check this.
Yes, due to the homozygous lethal, the expected ratio of hifin to normal when mating hifin to hifin would be 2:1.
But, with the true breeding hifin gene a heterozygous hifin to heterozygous hifin would yield the typical 3:1 hifin to normal. And a homozygous hifin to normal would yield 100% hifin.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Perhaps I will use this as a case study next year when I teach a genetics/heredity unit again.
Cheers,
Chris
Love genetic discussions!!! Hard to find good information out there. 🤔🤔🤔
We have a whiteboard and once I find markers that work well in the humid greenhouses I'll start drawing Punnett squares to demonstrate some interesting genetics.
Charles
Such awesome information.The knowledge you share is very much appreciated. This video reminds me of my high school biology teacher. In my school the biology course was normally only available to juniors and seniors. After talking with the biology teacher a few times with my mother(before the beginning of the school year), he agreed to let me enroll in the class as a freshman. He spent many hours after school, answering questions I had and teaching me things I wanted to know. Thank you for your videos, much respect.
Thank you for your kind words and for watching our videos. I like to imagine while doing these videos that you are standing there and we're having a conversation.
When I was in high school here in Texas, biology was a freshman course. But juniors and seniors could take an optional Advanced Science course that was advanced biology and chemistry. It sounds like you had a great teacher.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 That's exactly how if feels. Thank you again
Neat project! those Platies are beautiful colors
Thank you. I like that color pattern.
Charles
I love the way you explain everything 😍
Thank you, I try. I have a whiteboard I'd like to use to draw Punnett squares to make it easier to understand the genetics, but the markers I have don't work well in the humid greenhouses. I'm looking for better markers and will do Punnett squares in the future.
Charles
@Goliad Farms I will appreciate it.
Wow. Learned alot in this video.
Thank you. I find genetics fascinating and hope others do too.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 It is really interesting. I started my own experiment with breeding female guppies I like with endlers males I also like. The results, though mixed, has given me some interesting and exiting colors and patterns I was not expecting. I have only had accidental color mixtures with Platies... Never expected a male dwarf balloon and a full size female red wag make a dwarf balloon red wag let alone for the little guy to be able to breed with such a larger girl. 😅 But I had only been in the hobby for a month
Thank you.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching.
Charles
You sir are what I aspire to be in the future
Thank you very much. I hope I can be a positive role model.
Charles
I love how you explain the genetics behind these beautiful fish! The science seems to be the least enjoyable aspect for most people, but I find it fascinating.
Genetics is a wonderful tool when breeding anything. Fortunately in xiphophorines (swords, platies, variatus) there is a wealth of genetic information available. Here's a link to a very good site:
www.xiphophorus.txstate.edu/
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 thank you for sharing the link!
Thank you for info.
You are welcome. We try to provide good content.
Charles
Bravos.....👏👏 😊
Great Lesson for me. Thanks.
As we start processing our breeders in the next couple of months, I'll talk more about genetics.
Charles
A menagerie of animal today, fun! You mentioned an old female at the end of her cycle; how long do they live on average?
Most livebearers have a two-year life span. I've had some females live over three years.
Charles
wow I hope you have some of those hi fins available for sale sometime soon they are amazing
As soon as our hifin inventories recover from the 2021 Texas Winter Storm we'll be listing them on our website (goliadfarms.com/).
Charles
Your hifin variatus breeder males are amazing! I don’t know anybody that puts effort into creating beautiful dorsals on them, but yours look great! I just got a few pairs from an LFS to do some line breeding and see if I can create a line with a large beautiful dorsal.
Some breeders are producing very well formed hifins these days. You should visit some of the Facebook pages dedicated to livebearers.
Charles
Beautiful platys!
Thank you! I like that color pattern myself.
Charles
I love your show it's about fish but I get to learn a little bit more about other animals great job bro 👍
Thank for watching our fish and farm critters.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 you my Guy I watch you all the time love your videos bro
@@canzaquatiz3610 Thank you for watching our videos. We'll try to keep you interested.
Charles
Mrs. Thelma Simpson in Los Angeles . Her house was supposedly stuffed with tanks .Between her and Dr. Joanne Norton, the distaff half did a lot for fancy livebearers. Love these type of discussions .
Thank you. I can never remember Mrs. Simpson's first name. Maybe I will now.
Dr. Norton and used to correspond about livebearers. She forced me to write a couple of articles for the American Livebearer Association's bulletin.
Charles
WOW - you have butterflies. I haven't seen any in the desert where I live for literally YEARS... used to have all kinds of butterflies and insects, seems all we have now are a few angry bees and some bothersome flies. Even the tarantula hawk wasps are scarce, didn't see any last year at all. Glad you rescued the butterfly, I would have, too...
I've noticed a significant decline in Monarch Butterflies the last few years. We have lots of their favorite plants, but few Monarchs.
Charles
Genetics are so interesting but it can be so difficult to follow, the high fin that is homozygous lethal is actually somewhat similar to the gene for sickle cell disorder, heterozygous for sickle cell helps to fight off malaria but when homozygous it causes a lot of health issues such as anemia. the sickle cell gene originated in Africa where malaria is so prevalent that the gene stuck around despite the potential for health problems. I'm sure there are also other examples but i cant think of any off the top of my head.
Sickle cell anemia is a good human example, although it isn't as lethal as hifin in xiphophorines wherein hifin homozygotes don't make it to birth. Sickle cell homozygotes often survive to puberty, but rarely beyond. With sickle cell in malarial regions, the heterozygotes are superior to either homozygotes. It would be interesting if someday a translocation would place the two alleles on the same chromosome so that anyone inheriting that chromosome would be resistant to malaria but would not pass on sickle cell anemia.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 that could have theoretically already happened but since it has no negative effect on the life of the individuals it hasn't been discovered. As humans we are a lot faster to recognize the bad.
wonderful!!!!
Thank you.
Charles
Great information thanks for sharing, I think this must be the cause of folk buying the so called cauliflower red-eyed Red swordtails and not producing fry or is that something different.
The complete lack of fry wouldn't be explained by this. A few years ago I paid an exorbitant price for some red-eyed red hifin swords. They weren't cauliflowers, but were spectacular. They produced zero fry. I suspect they had been treated with sub-lethal doses of arsenic, which can sterilize fish. An alternative treatment that can cause sterility is high doses of acriflavine.
Charles
Beautiful fish 😘👍🔨
Thank you. I like them.
Charles
Does this issue still exist? I see them everywhere in fish stores and I miss the regular fin fish.
The high fin lethal breeding?
Yes, the standard hifin allele in Xiphophorus species is a dominant homozygous lethal. As a result, when mating two hifins together you'll yield 2/3 hifins instead of the expected 3/4 hifins. It also means that all hifins are heterozygous. The exception is what I call "true-breeding hifin" which is not lethal. In strains with that characteristic you can yield 100% hifins after weeding out the recessive normal dorsal from the population. This characteristic has been reported by two other breeders.
Charles
"It's just tired" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ah...I hate videos with me in them, so I try not to watch them. Was that about the butterfly?
Charles
3:04
Stormy: it likes me
Charles: Yeah it likes you, it's just tired
Charles is a real life radagast!!! Lol you know that old animal wizard who had birds living in his beard and rabbits pulling his sled from the movie/book "THE HOBBIT"...lol awesome informative video as usual Charles you are a weath of knowledge;!!!!!
Thank you! You should have seen our employee Stormy dancing around yesterday when a large roach somehow got on her back. Too bad we had no video of that.
Charles
Such an informative video!! Quick question: wont the lethal alele ratio be 1/3 normal and 2/3 hi-fin since the homozigous hi-fin 1/4 die?
Yes. I don't know if I stated that wrong in the video and refuse to watch it to see. When mating two hifins, you'd expect 2:1 hifins to normals. Unless, of course, you were dealing with the true-breeding hifin gene.
Charles
Hello, would this be the same for all fin variations? Like Longfin in some plecos? Expect 75% Longfin and 25% short fin? Thank you
That would depend on whether the parents are heterozygous or homozygous for longfin. So far as I know, longfin (a dominant allele [version of a gene]) is not homozygous lethal in Ancistrus. That means a longfin fish can be homozygous. Here are the possible matings and expect outcomes.
Both parents are homozygous for longfin. 100% longfin offspring.
One parent is homozygous longfin, the other is normal fins. 100% longfin offspring.
Both parents are heterozygous. 75% longfins, 25% normals.
One parent is heterozygous longfin, the other normal. 50% longfins, 50% normal.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 thank you so much for your answer
HI! HOW ARE YOU? IN YOUR OPINION, WHICH IS EASIER TO BREEDING PLATYS OR MOLLIES? I ASK YOU BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER RAISED THEM, FOR ME YOUR OPINION IS VERY VALUABLE. GREAT YOUR GENETIC CLASS ABOUT THEM.REGARDS FROM BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
Platys are a bit more tolerant than most mollies to water conditions, especially ammonia and nitrite. Platys can handle lower water temperatures than all mollies except for Poecilia latipinna and its hybrids. P. latipinna is the sailfin molly native to the US and is very cold tolerant. Under aquarium conditions both are easy to raise. Mollies have larger fry and are less cannibalistic than platys and their relatives swordtails.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 A LOT OF THANKS MASTER.
@@juanolcese1555 Good luck with any you choose.
Charles
MANY THANKS MASTER
Awe butterfly rescue!
I couldn't let it die!
Charles
You throw out those Latin names like it's nothing. :D
Latin (scientific) names are more precise. I find them as easy to learn as common names.
Charles
This guy should be in charge of... Everything!
There are some who would opine that would be a disaster.
Charles
I'm applying to become official bitterly catcher for this guy
You have the job!
Charles
Merch??? I want a tshirt!!!
I just raise fish, but Susie and Carl tell me that merchandise will be listed on our website (goliadfarms.com/) soon.
Charles
Right priorities save the butterfly ! :)
It was a necessary task.
Charles
I wasnt being sarcastic....if we as dominant species on planet we will kill every thing and ultimately ourselves, so we need to protect the flora and fauna as it keeps us alive too and make it a better planet to live on too.. even the mosquitoes the fish in the rivers need them and the insect eating birds... Sadly I understand they carry diseases but I disagree with trying to kill them off via genetic manipulation , Tinker with them so they dont carry disease would be better imo. Sorry rant over!
Stormy puts up with so much. 🤣🤣🤣
Finally someone understands😂 just kidding I really enjoy working here. Charles, Susie and Carl are all really nice and fun to work with.
Hmmm...I think it's a two-way street! Ask Stormy about duckweed.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I said you are fun to work with lol. I was being nice
All the animals in the area know about the Greenhouse. :)
Unfortunately that includes raccoons and possums!
Charles
Respect for jou end jour helpers. End for the love of annimals. Specifiek fish
Thank you.
Charles
👌👌👌❤❤❤
Thank you.
Charles
The "Butterfly effect" in action....
Yes. The butterfly changed my course of actions for the day.
Charles
I love your style dude. I have been a groundskeeper for 10+ years and the type of stewardship you exhibit only comes from being deeply connected with your property.
Thank you. This land has been in my family since 1870. The house Susie and I live in was built by my great grandfather in 1908. There isn't a square foot of it I haven't trod at some point. I've lived elsewhere, but always knew I'd return here and did in 2000.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 truly inspirational. The American dream.
@@gibshredcamel Thank you.
Charles
👍
Thank you for watching.
Charles
you keep talking about the birds and the bees and i will have to change your pg rating
Last night I went out to check the greenhouses and found two pairs of Texas Toads mating after our recent rains. I briefly thought of videoing them, but wasn't sure that would meet community standards.
Charles
Could Mrs Simpson's first name be Marge ? 🤣. Sorry I'm bringing down the channel with my childish humour. Thanks Charles ,Suzi , Stormy and Fred the butterfly and also Fred the bird.
Now you just insured that I'll call Mrs. Simpson Marge!
Charles