Turtle hatch
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Turtle hatch
A painted turtle lays some eggs in the yard a few months ago and they hatched today.
We took them to the lake and let them loose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvOl5_E ... e=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB7WyLk ... e=youtu.be
We took them to the lake and let them loose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvOl5_E ... e=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB7WyLk ... e=youtu.be
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Re: Turtle hatch
Very cool. Good deeds are sure to come back with something positive.
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That's really great Lenn, mother turtle knew what she was doing when she left her brood in your hands....
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Thats super! Turtles a neat critters. I always stop and move them when I see them on the road. Back when I was at the lumber yard the local snapping turtles would lay their eggs in the mulch bin. I did my best to relocate them but more than one egg went out on delivery.
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Pretty cool. I had one of them little suckers as a pet when I was a kid. It liked earth worms and flies.
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I always knew you were ok Pitchy! Todd/3leg
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Thanks guys, Todd you now have family in five point lake.
We`ve been watching over the nest for a couple months as skunks like to dig up the eggs so we covered the nest with a cage.
Weird critters guess they can stay in the ground all winter and hatch in the spring if it turns cool to early.
We`ve been watching over the nest for a couple months as skunks like to dig up the eggs so we covered the nest with a cage.
Weird critters guess they can stay in the ground all winter and hatch in the spring if it turns cool to early.
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Re: Turtle hatch
I always thought it was amazing they could hibernate in the nest. But then again they bury themselves in the mud under water, ive even caught turtles in december by breaking thru ice. Ah to be, young and bullet proof again.....
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Pitchy when I was a little fella, I'd follow my Great Grandpa Otto around a lake that was loaded with big bulldogs and soft shelled turtles. He would probe the soft sand with his cane till he found a batch of turtle eggs. He would dust em off and put em in his hat, very excited. At home he kept the eggs in the frig , and would eat 2 or three raw, shells and all with his cofee. We ate many bulldogs and soft shelled turtles back then, delicious. The turtles would get on our trotlines while we fished for catfish, Dad would only butcher the big ones after bleeding them real good, they had a real fine sea food flavor Dad would kill the bulldogs by taking a broom straw and inserting it easily in a spot on back of their head, they made a little squeak and died in second, us kids thought such frog killing was just like magic, and would never miss it. Glad your turtles didn't meet up with Otto!
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That`s quite a story pard but don`t sound very tasty to me but people eat a lot of things that i wouldn`t.
I`ve never tried frogs either, pickled pig hocks was a different story.
I`ve never tried frogs either, pickled pig hocks was a different story.
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Re: Turtle hatch
Octagon, on a frog there is a spot in the spine just behind the head where a broomstraw or a metal rod, such as a thin brazing rod, will slip in and short out the spinal cord as it goes in and scrambles the brain. On alligators a round nose .22lr will do it. Those crazy alligator hunters on Swamp People do that. We had to learn to kill frogs that way in lab classes so that they did not feel any pain.
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Pitchy you'll be glad you missed the "cuisine" at last week's annual dove party. Besides piles of doves, my crazy Cajun neighbor brought a big plastic tub of goat testicles which he seasoned Cajun style and breaded in cormeal and fried like catfish. These farmboys have been trying to get me to eat these for years, I always thought they were trying to jive me...the farmers wife brought me a plate (My boy and I were providing the slide guitar music) and I ate some, and went and got some more, not just good but dang good . We had a great time with the ladies and kids dancing up a storm, beer music, food, and friends and family. Gotta look out for those Cajun, they eat anything! That turtle and frog meat are looking pretty good now yes?
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That reminds me of Ray Stevens' song Gourmet Restaurants.
We have frogs legs that are sure to please.
Well HooRay for you boy! Now hop on back there and bring me a grilled cheese.
We have frogs legs that are sure to please.
Well HooRay for you boy! Now hop on back there and bring me a grilled cheese.
D. Brian Casady
Quid Llatine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur.
Advanced is being able to do the basics while your leg is on fire---Bill Jeans
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up---Robert Frost
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Re: Turtle hatch
we had a box tortise on a light chain in the back yard in Nevada, my early days. After big downpours Dad would load us all into the car and cruise the byways, stopping to flip the tortises upright that had been flipped by the flash flood waters. never did learn if he was right that the the box turtles can't right themselves... anyone know?
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Grizz, I had a Three-Toe Box Turtle I kept with me in the semi, she could right herself most of the time. When I fed her nightcrawlers she bit the head off, then eat its body while watching the head wriggle. Then after she would grab the head and eat it from back to front. She also loved nectarines... Todd
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250 Savage... its what the 223 wishes it could be...!
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I`m eating a spicy beef stick at the moment, that`s close enough for meoctagon wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:48 pm Pitchy you'll be glad you missed the "cuisine" at last week's annual dove party. Besides piles of doves, my crazy Cajun neighbor brought a big plastic tub of goat testicles which he seasoned Cajun style and breaded in cormeal and fried like catfish. These farmboys have been trying to get me to eat these for years, I always thought they were trying to jive me...the farmers wife brought me a plate (My boy and I were providing the slide guitar music) and I ate some, and went and got some more, not just good but dang good . We had a great time with the ladies and kids dancing up a storm, beer music, food, and friends and family. Gotta look out for those Cajun, they eat anything! That turtle and frog meat are looking pretty good now yes?
Good stories fellers.
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Re: Turtle hatch
We could get those for a nickel at the store. Gnaw on that thing all day.
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good one Todd. I never found out if Dad was chasing old wive's tales, or if, as I suspect, it was just an excuse to get out of the house and go somewhere. he was mostly all about going anywhere. there were some upside down ones where he looked for them. i think our back-yard tortise did fine on grass and whatever scraps Mom sent his way. good old memories
3leggedturtle wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:55 am Grizz, I had a Three-Toe Box Turtle I kept with me in the semi, she could right herself most of the time. When I fed her nightcrawlers she bit the head off, then eat its body while watching the head wriggle. Then after she would grab the head and eat it from back to front. She also loved nectarines... Todd