perchie.girl
RIP 1953-2021
Hatchling turtles are for export as pets overseas, Yes, lambs born during winter are not bothered by pests such as gnats that carry diseases, flies and other flying, biting and annoying pests, lambs also eat more when weather is cooler, mothers will wake the lambs during night so they will eat to help them stay warm, they have a barn to stay in if they choose. which they do. trick is to leave a light on for them, like motel 6- for real no joke. I leave a light on for them 24 7, so they feel secure. they prefer to sleep where the light is. so they get fed in barn during winter. we have 240 acres. but I live a few miles from that farm at property where our turtle business is located. Hopefully, in few years we will be able to move to the larger farm we are buying where we can raise sheep and crawfish. We have to add acreage to our crawfish business before we can swap from raising turtles to crawfish and sheep. set backs in life make us really enjoy things more when those things we want finally get to us. Yes, we do stay busy but I'm greatful to be able to be back busy again. Just never to busy to thank God for blessings or to pray for others. I mostly read others comments on here to remind me I am not alone just that the sane people that are left in this world seem to be scattered. wonder if we(sane people) could all just move to our own continent, I mean our own planet. Nice, calm, hot coffee, cold tea, country farm - life. with a golden corral restaurant of course.
I looked closer at your avatar. Those look like Snapping turtles... Wow.
I have raised up Red Eared sliders. They are funny little guys not nearly as big. They only get around the diameter of a small dinner plate. Raise them up from hatchlings in the house but water filtration was killing me. So I built them an eight by eight Brick pond out in the yard. Just stacked cinder block about two feet deep with pond liner held in place by wood hammered into the groove in the bricks.
Raising Crawfish... Yummm. I am hoping to do Hydroponics at home when i move back. Here in the desert ambient temps mean I need to either chill the water down or use fish that can handle warm water. tilapia prefer 75 to 80 degrees So keeping it warm in my 100 degree average shouldn't be an issue. But I was thinking of groing some Freswater Prawns, or Cray fish, in the grow beds. With ebb and flow for the grow beds I think I can make a very good environment for the crawfish.
All would be for my own consumption. Water is very scarce here. VERy scarce.
deb
