Baymule
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The flooding is insane! All those poor people, farms, animals, crops.
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Mike CHS
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I had a visitor in the lane around my pasture. It is covered in mud so I'm assuming it was buried in mud somewhere but I have no idea where since there are no water holes on our place or the two next to us.
Presenting Mr. Snapping Turtle. I took an additional picture with it in front of a corner post. That post is one of those 7" posts that they sell as 8" for a size reference.
Presenting Mr. Snapping Turtle. I took an additional picture with it in front of a corner post. That post is one of those 7" posts that they sell as 8" for a size reference.
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Dang - he's BIG!
CntryBoy777
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They will eat Anything they can swallow...they only get bigger....looks like a pretty good wad of mud on the shell....maybe traveled some to lay ya some eggs...ot try to steal some....that size can put a burtin on ya, if it gets ahold of something....the louder the "hiss" the more agitated it is....ask me how I know?.....
Bruce
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Obviously it just came back from the spa and it's mud treatment!
That sure is a load it is carrying.
That sure is a load it is carrying.
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Mike CHS
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I've had turtle soup but I'm not sure I would want to mess with that thing.
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Don't blame you one bit!
Senile_Texas_Aggie
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I think 1 shot with a 22 would take care of it. Then you can what Maisy would do with it.
greybeard
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Likely came from a waterhole that was getting low. They burrow into the mud to stay cool when the water starts evaporating.
I passed a pickup truck sitting on the side of hiway 90 in La one time, and saw a guy standing by it and another one in hip waders down in the muddy ditch where it crossed under a side road. I stopped to see what they were doing, and the guy in the ditch was digging in the mud with a pitchfork and was chunking snappers up and out to the guy up on the shoulder. Probably had a couple dozen big ones in the bed of the truck. They'd been stopping at every intersection that morning and getting 2-3 out of every hole of water and mud. They had a market for them somewhere close I guess. That old mud stunk to high heaven tho.
I used to have a LOT of turtles in my pond and they would come swimming up by the dozens and steal the catfish food I threw out every evening. That high protein catfish food runs about $30 for 50lbs.
One day I had enough of feeding the dang things and went down there that evening with my .22 and 2 boxes of hp and that was the evening of The Great Turtle Massacre.
Dunno how many I killed but a couple days later, I had to paddle out there and pick up all the dead smelly things with a dip net. It was an awful mess.
Still have some, but their numbers have never recovered from that slaughter.
I passed a pickup truck sitting on the side of hiway 90 in La one time, and saw a guy standing by it and another one in hip waders down in the muddy ditch where it crossed under a side road. I stopped to see what they were doing, and the guy in the ditch was digging in the mud with a pitchfork and was chunking snappers up and out to the guy up on the shoulder. Probably had a couple dozen big ones in the bed of the truck. They'd been stopping at every intersection that morning and getting 2-3 out of every hole of water and mud. They had a market for them somewhere close I guess. That old mud stunk to high heaven tho.
I used to have a LOT of turtles in my pond and they would come swimming up by the dozens and steal the catfish food I threw out every evening. That high protein catfish food runs about $30 for 50lbs.
One day I had enough of feeding the dang things and went down there that evening with my .22 and 2 boxes of hp and that was the evening of The Great Turtle Massacre.
Dunno how many I killed but a couple days later, I had to paddle out there and pick up all the dead smelly things with a dip net. It was an awful mess.
Still have some, but their numbers have never recovered from that slaughter.
