fostered gtf over the winter...when to release them?

[UncleChester]

Hi there! I had a couple of Grays turn up indoors in February, one adult and one nearly an adult. I used the activity of my local wild population as my cue to release them. When I could hear the wild ones chorusing on a nightly bases, I set them free.

They are built to survive freeze/thaw cycles in the spring, and from what I've been reading they don't seem to need to ease into a cold period. However, as long as you're willing to keep feeding them, if you want to hold on to them until it's a little warmer at night it shouldn't hurt them.

It's too bad about the missing legs, those little ones will probably have less of a chance on their own. You've given them a much better chance than they would otherwise have had though.

[Tubby0512]

I have a grey Tree Frog as a pet. His name is tubby. I rescued his sisters and brothers and some of his froggy friends from my pool. I do it every year. When they turned to frogs I released them back into the wild. if you had them over winter I would wait until you can hear the Grey Tree Frogs calling outside. Than release them. I would release the one s that have all of their legs. The ones missing legs will not survive. they will be eaten or die on their own. so I sugest you keep those ones. you can give them a fighting change to survive.

[Mentat]

Agree with above comments to release when wild populations are active . The crazy weather probably had to do with late batch and malformed frogs. Mother nature can be harsh and merciless; if you can't keep the handicapped ones could try to find adoptive homes, or just release them and let nature decide.

[Charlieamanda]

Thanx for the replies..I'm gonna wait a bit & released the largest & healiest, ones w all their limbs, first & hope the weather and mother nature will be kind to the smaller ones and limbless when I release them during optimum conditions. I'm hopeful the limbless will have a fighting chance they adapt fairly easy, are developed & have been well fed so they have an advantage : ) Unfortunatly I can't sell, trade or barter the limbless grays, I have actually contacted the fish/game & boat assoc. about it in past yrs, they did mention that if somebody wanted to come get one or two it wouldn't be a problem :-)