Create 6 toad habitats - PEP BB animal.sand.toad

Mar 26, 2019 20:55:58

This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Animal Care.

In this Badge Bit you will make six different toad habitats.

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Here are some articles on toads and toad habitats:
- 9 Ways to Attract Toads
- Making Amphibian Habitats
- Garden Toad Tutorial
- Making Toad Habitat

Here are some nice videos on making toad habitats.

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- you must make six different toad habitats

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must:
- post a picture of 6 different spots before you added toad habitat
- post a picture of those same 6 spots after you added toad habitat

Mike Barkley · Jun 14, 2020 15:30:02

I think I have this one done. I stacked a ton of functions as well. I had a hollow maple and hollow cedar that could have made for a bit of firewood but instead I cut them into 2" thick wafers. By putting them around baby plants, the chickens can't dig around them and hurt their roots. Plus it gives the toads a place to hide from the chickens. Win win win. Some of the "before" pictures are a few years old.

Also, while installing t posts in the garden, I found two toads that were under my t post pile in the garden shed. Oh no! So I replaced the missing t posts with a hunk of 2x4 until the t posts return to their storage location.

Edit: Added another one, a large disk of a tree near some leeks that the cut worms were destroying

Ash Jackson · Sep 05, 2020 06:26:13

I LOVE toads and frogs. And hedgehogs too (no, they are not reptiles or amphibians).
In my garden was already some habitat for them. But because of this BB I created more.

No, this is not right!

The pots must be like this! Three toad habitats.

What to do with this old pipe?

Create toad habitat! That's four.

This wall needs something ...

... upside down pot as toad habitat! That's five.

And some more upside down pots. That's seven!

And I think my 'pond' (overgrown with mint) is frog and toad habitat too.

I didn't see a BB for hedgehog habitat. But I created that too.

I hope hedgehog likes this tiny house.

Mike Barkley · Oct 18, 2020 10:44:57

Good Afternoon All, below is just a small collection of toad habitat I have sitting around my farmlab.

1.) This is a before and after of a small reused clay pot, it's placed inside one of the raised garden beds, behind this raised garden bed is a seasonal creek. A creek that is normally filled with tons of tadpoles.

2.) This location is where my fence meets one of my small barns near a gravel road, behind this fence is a compost mound. I often see toad crossing this gravel road in the evening.

3.) This location is in the middle of the farm lab, going downhill from the seasonal ponds/creek following the water flow,and then elevated towards a rock wall, this is at the end of the rock wall, but above the high water mark.

4.) This location is on the edge of a overflow pond where I've been building up the bank to hold more water, often the area behind this is full of water

5.) This location is just in the small patch of woods that makes up an edge on both sides, normally undistributed

6.)This area is near one of my water stations, and under our pear tree, this is a crossing path from, a pond, to a more wetland area, lots of open space so I thought a small hide out would be good here.

7.)This location is near where I had to repair a fence and had to clean out the biology that was living here, now i'm hoping to attract most of it back, rock and old wood shelter

gir bot · Sep 08, 2021 14:50:21

Repurposing 6 unused pots to serve as toad abodes throughout the yard and gardens.

gir bot · Oct 11, 2021 15:27:05

Six toad habitats from scraps of stuff that came with my property!

gir bot · Oct 18, 2021 15:22:58

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- you must make six different toad habitats

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must:
- post a picture of 6 different spots before you added toad habitat
- post a picture of those same 6 spots after you added toad habitat

I picked six quiet locations, mostly tucked at the back behind my raised beds. I also picked areas that out of direct sun and retain moisture the longest. Here are my six before and after shots.

Dec 07, 2021 14:19:21

Any plants for toads? I'm looking for ones to provide shelter and breeding as well as resting. I've tried with just rock piles, but found only garter snake and field mouse. Any native plants in mind for the eastern U.S?

gir bot · Apr 15, 2022 16:36:44

So for this tasker I was really lucky. My house has a lot of spots that are opportunistic for our amphibian friends AND the previous homeowners left tons of smaller paver blocks behind. Win win!

gir bot · Jan 27, 2023 23:58:43

This is my first bit submission, had some family time today and between my partner and myself we made around 15 little toad shelters. Lots of fun.

***I had miss labeled the image of habitat #3, there were two #4’s listed on different images but #3 is a single habitat; #4 and #5 are shown together and #6 with two extras are shown in the final image.

Jan 30, 2023 08:15:00

The images were miss-labeled, I fixed the labeling and explained further in the submission, apologies.

gir bot · Feb 07, 2023 20:20:47

This is my first bit submission, had some family time today and between my partner and myself we made around 15 little toad shelters. Lots of fun.

***I had previously miss labeled the image of habitat #3, there were two #4’s listed on different images but #3 is a single habitat; #4 and #5 are shown together and #6 with an extra #7 (had extra material) are shown in the final image.

I will make certain I am much more carful in the future.

Thank you all for all your hard work making this place great.

gir bot · May 01, 2024 09:25:52

I've occasionally seen a toad here and there but not as much in my garden. I'm happy I have found this badge bit that nudged me to build those little buggers some shelters.

We have a lot of rocks, so my top choice for building toad apartments were long flatish rocks.

gir bot · Aug 27, 2024 10:56:57

Today I made some toad habitats. We see toads relatively often, they like hiding in small places in the garden and under our leaky hose.

Sep 02, 2024 10:47:27

Very good pictures! I like the crevices for toads. Could we use hibernaculum to reel in toads and other creatures? I wanna create shelters that are similar to the ones out in the wild. Good seeing ya!

gir bot · Apr 01, 2025 16:40:43

Built toad habbits today using terracotta pots, bricks, shells, wood and stones.

Apr 02, 2025 06:56:00

For this BB I did create 'toad habitats' (see here: link) The toads did not seem to like them. I think the upside-down pots were too open (for wind and light), or too hot on summer days, or too exposed with not much plant growth around them. But there's one spot, created later (last year) where at least one big toad now lives! It is under some old roof tiles next to my 'water garden'.
Probably this is what toads like:
- a dark spot
- with soil under and plants as neighbours
- fairly wet

It's in this photo

you see the old watering can under the rain pipe? The 'water garden is there, and the old roof tiles too. I know the toad is there too (but I won't disturb it again to show it in a photo).

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