What kind of chicken is this, laying eggs in my yard? UPDATE!

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They say anywhere from 60-90 days and sometimes as long as 120!
I was looking for the turtle down by the creek, and found 3 more eggs in the creek, I doubt they will hatch, but I have them in dirt! I only free range my birds with supervision!
 
Very nice snapper! No it will not eat your birds no matter the size, unless of course your birds like walking on the bottom of lakes and rivers. These creatures spend just about all their time in the water where they wait at the bottom hidden in the muck for anything about the size of its head to come within range. The only time they really come to shore is when its time to lay eggs. They've found out these turtles end up staying underwater most of the winter in places where the surface freezes, possibly with a degree of oxygen exchange happening through their skin. I do believe snappers are apart of the group that have no sex chromosones, so the temps when they are developing in the egg deturmines what gender they end up. Higher temps make females and lower temps make males I believe for them.
 
Snapping turtles are pretty much in every fresh body of water. They tend to avoid people like the plague. I think it's probably a rare and beautiful thing that you get to witness this.

I also have to admit I'm a little bit jealous.
 
Wouldnt work, reptile eggs cannot be moved while incubating especially near hatch time. Unlike chicken eggs reptile embryos need to settle and stick to the side of the egg. Tiny veins transfer air from the surface to the embryo, as well as there are no chalazae anchoring the yolk. Turning a reptile egg will tear veins, get the baby twisted in the umbilical cord, and possibly crush it with the yolk. They also are not hard shelled like birds, they are a soft pliable leather shell that dimples when the humidity is too low and also near hatching time. Reptiles dont have hard beaks to peck their way out, instead they slash side to side cutting their way out with an egg tooth. If anyone has seen hatching reptile eggs it often looks like someone went at it with a razor.
 
Keep in mind predators are largely oppurtunistic,when anything is hungry enough they will go after anything that could possibly be food, including people. In that example unless the irrigation pond wad stocked and thriving with fish and other edibles found I'm their natural environment there isn't enough to support a few snappers. Going on land to hunt is not natural to them but they will do what they need to to survive. This is a case of animals trying to survive in an area that can't support them, by far not a common occurrance or something people need to panic about. Things happen out of the norm and this is not the norm for these guys to get far out of the water something extreme has to be pushing them, a quick glance at them and you can tell they weren't designed for life on land.

Take this rare oppurtunity to enjoy something most people never get to see, baby turtles are no threat at all to your birds.
 
I've heard they taste just like chicken
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