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| Field Collecting/Observing Sightings of herps in the wild, where-tos and how-tos, as well as photos of herps in their native environment. |
08-16-2012, 12:31 AM
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Shes a hefty one!
Just caught this little girl trying to cross the road down the street from my home at 11:30, her carapace was just under 3 feet and weighed close to 50lbs. Deffenitly one of the biggest common snappers I've seen I guesstimated she was around 20 years old.
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08-16-2012, 02:23 PM
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Thats some mighty fine eating right there
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08-16-2012, 02:39 PM
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Oh yeah! Gotta watch out though, this meal might try to bite back!!
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08-16-2012, 03:50 PM
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I think that is one of the biggest I've ever seen.
Did you release her?
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08-16-2012, 04:36 PM
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I put some hydrogen peroxide on her head wound and released her into the river she was found near.
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08-16-2012, 06:48 PM
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I had NO idea they got that big!
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08-16-2012, 06:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pythonbreeder99
Just caught this little girl trying to cross the road down the street from my home
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Seems a little late for eggs - hope you told her she's not supposed to be wandering around like that.
Snappers are the only turtles I really like. (includes alligator snappers, but I prefer the regular ones)
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08-16-2012, 06:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hhmoore
Seems a little late for eggs - hope you told her she's not supposed to be wandering around like that.
Snappers are the only turtles I really like. (includes alligator snappers, but I prefer the regular ones)
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I thought of that too, I looked up the laying season and some post said late August to early September so maybe???
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08-16-2012, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Pythonbreeder99
I thought of that too, I looked up the laying season and some post said late August to early September so maybe???
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I don't remember - I haven't grabbed a wandering snapping turtle in a long time. People thought I was nuts with one of them - I kept her in a big cattle trough, and (after several weeks) I would hand feed her. She would take rat pinks very gently from my fingers; but if I offered something on tongs, she would chomp it.
She was small in comparison to that girl - 32 lbs
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08-16-2012, 06:54 PM
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The largest recorded in CT had a carapace length of 17.51 inches, I had a a tape measure in my truck and I measured hers at just about 22 inches. I may have overestimated a bit in my original post lol.
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