Found a new predator in the coop this morning

[chick4chicks]

ChickyPooh and LilBizzy that is just way to funny.

. As for the turtle hope you can shore the pen up so no more get in. Good luck.

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[dacjohns]

d.k :

*They do like eggs. What did you do with him/her/it, dac?? Turtle soup??

P.S. Watch your fingers, they like those, too!!!

I started this thread mostly for entertainment.

I took it to the pond and let it go there. If it eats some of my fish, then so be it. It might eventually get big enough to eat.

I was doing the usual morning check in the coop: Letting some of the birds out, checking for eggs in and under the boxes, checking for snakes. I saw a dark spot on the wall of the coop under the nest boxes. The spot wasn't supposed to be there so I got the mulitpurpose grass rake (chicken herder and stuff raker) and raked it out from under the box. My thought was how did a turtle get in here, then I thought, this isn't a box turtle, it's a slider, then I saw its mouth; a baby snapping turtle. I showed my wife, took some pictures, and took it to the pond.

I don't it's much of threat to my chickens until it grows and then only if the birds decide to go swimming. My concern, as I and others have mentioned, is how did it get in the coop.

I have enjoyed your comments and that you have enjoyed the photo.​

 

[pattee]

I too thought the look on his face saying "It wasn't me, it wasn't me!"

I would never thought about turtles...

In the Pacific NW we have a surge of snails~ and squirrel's

 

[countryboy]

I thought the turtle was mugging for the camera, doesn't it look like a smile from an infant.

 

[rooster-red]

How did it get in?
Maybe its a teenage mutant ninja!

 

[pattee]

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[kees]

I'm glad that it didn't get any of your chickens' toes!

 

[mmajw]

I dont think I have ever seen a Turtles Nostrils that close up....

 

[pokey]

hey.... maybe that's why everybody says turtles taste like chicken!!!
they've ben in the chicken coop!

 

[pattee]

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