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mrsdszoo said:
Ok, as much as I really want to discuss what I'd like to do to whatever or whomever took/killed my ducks, life moves on - quickly- at the farm. Well, at the house too. I'm looking at two little CCL peeps, newly hatched, and I don't see a clear "male" or "female". I'm sure that's because I don't know what I'm looking at from first-hand experience though. I've seen photos, but I only confused myself by reading too much on the internet. So @Roboduck and @Rocky Rhodes ; what do you think?



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It looks like the one on the left is a female and the one on the right, a male. It will be easier to tell once they have completely dried. Post more pics later. Congrats!!
 
Rocky Rhodes said:
It looks like the one on the left is a female and the one on the right, a male. It will be easier to tell once they have completely dried. Post more pics later. Congrats!!
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I will post more pictures in a while, as the hatching party has just begun. Four more pips have little beaks showing, so things should heat up soon. The two EE chicks in the brooder at two days old will welcome the company.
 
Yop, this is turning out to be a wet summer so far, and the turtles know it!

One of the stops on my mail route is a gas station/feed store. It's a little mom and pop place, although mom and pop have divorced ages ago, and somehow still own the business together. All three regular clerks are VERY heavy smokers and have that low raspy speech that just makes you want to clear your own throat a few times extra - and pray they get the hint and do the same!

Inside of the store, they have a baby snapping turtle that someone brought them, sitting up on a shelf beside a large glass fish bowl with a single large crawfish in it. So obviously, people bring all sorts of other animals in to them.

I told them this past Saturday that if they bring in BOX turtles, to call me and I'll come get them to add to my breeding program (but please remember where the turtle was picked up). Well, they called me this afternoon, and I went and picked up...

A fricking giant (full-grown) florida cooter. The shell on this thing was measured at a good 15 inches long! The record is 16 inches. No one has any idea where it was picked up, but someone kept it for a while, because it had all sorts of paint peeling off of it's shell.

So knowing I shouldn't release it until I found out where it was picked up (or at least close to it) I brought it home and put it in the duck/goose pool. Not even two hours later, that thing had figured out how to get out (probably when the ducks/geese pushed the sides down to get IN) and disappeared.

Now I feel bad.

In the meantime, someone else brought in a plain old eastern mud turtle, and it's now digging into the super-wet peat moss in the box turtle enclosure.

These two, plus I've practically doubled my own box turtle population this spring, means it's definitely a favorable year for the little shelled creatures!
 
If anyone close in the St Mary's area is interested in a trio of Reds. I will be ready to sell soon. They are young, only about 4 mo old. I will post pictures tomorrow.
 
Whew, turkey poults can be so LOUD!! Or maybe I'm just a light sleeper? Or both?

One of my two royal palm turkey poults managed to jump completely out of the brooder! Unfortunately, the brooder box sits on top of my chest freezer in the laundry room. When he got out, he fell behind the chest freezer and got stuck between it and the wall.

But either that one, or the one left in the brooder (I think the one left behind) started peeping SO INCREDIBLY LOUD, that it woke me up, three rooms away, and beyond two closed doors! And that's with two fans running in my room (ceiling fan and box fan) and the household AC rumbling away! And I live in a household with two other adults, and four kids, so I thought I would have slept through most noises!

Or maybe I'm just familiar with a turkey poult's 4-5 peeps of loneliness, and woke up because I subconsciously knew something wasn't right. Either way, the little one is back in the warm brooder now with its buddies. But I think tomorrow, I need to go ahead and look for other housing for these guys!

Back to sleep for now though!
 
mrsdszoo said:
As ChickDancer mentioned, I have Narragansetts. I have eggs in the incubator due on the 11th. Depending on how many hatch, I may be able to find a ride for a poult or two to your neck of the woods. My oldest assistant zookeeper has her summer job down there, and she'll be home for visits occasionally. She won't mind an extra passenger on the way back, I bet.
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Had any hatch yet?
 
Saw the SADDEST thing on my way to Wal-mart today. A fawn - VERY young, as the spots were still incredibly contrasted from the rest of the fur - got hit on the interstate. Barely even a taste of life, and it was already gone.

And what's worse is that the doe wasn't anywhere nearby that I saw. So that begs the question: What happened to HER??
 

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