OT- TURTLE FARMER
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Bronze Member Username: InafiaCleveland, Ohio USA Post Number: 25 Registered: Feb-06 | ya dude. the newest hit at the mall aroundhere was selling little turtles out of a kiosk. i think 4-7 bucks a piece...i got 1 |
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Gold Member Username: Young_jamesCanada Post Number: 1394 Registered: Sep-05 | turtles are awesome imo..........but they are like 40 here, which is why i don't have one |
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Bronze Member Username: ShortysetniesRock Vegas, NC US Post Number: 80 Registered: Mar-06 | Talk to marshall. he's a turtle farmer. |
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Gold Member Username: Young_jamesCanada Post Number: 1398 Registered: Sep-05 | yeah, i just seen that........that's pretty neat  |
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Silver Member Username: NemenPost Number: 766 Registered: Dec-05 | yeah but turtles are really messy you have to clean the stinky @ss tank all the time lol but theyre cool i used to have 3 i think ill buy some more. |
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Silver Member Username: Alexv305Tavernier, FL USA Post Number: 179 Registered: Oct-05 | WHATEVER HAPPENED TO NO ALL CAPS...LOL |
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Silver Member Username: Alexv305Tavernier, FL USA Post Number: 180 Registered: Oct-05 | I had a turtle at one point in time. We released it into the wild. |
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Gold Member Username: CarguyPost Number: 5522 Registered: Nov-04 | If you're going to play with turtles, make sure you wash your hands with soap! Their skin/shell has virus/germ all over. Not good for little kids. Other than that, they're fun to watch, especially the tiny ones, less than 1" in length. |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 1022 Registered: Jan-06 | Isaac, what makes them especially dangerous is that turtles naturally like chickens, carry salmonella and can make you very sick. Some lizards like Iguana's carry it also. The little turtles have been known to carry multiple diseases that is why they are banned for sale in certain states, including here in IL. Polo.. |
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Gold Member Username: LbecknerTulsa, Ok Usa Post Number: 1025 Registered: Oct-04 | i used to have a pet snapping turtle when i was little. he bit my hand and wouldn't let go. i didnt like him much after that. |
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Silver Member Username: GoatinU.S.A Post Number: 911 Registered: Jan-06 | Is this thread serious? Hell I never bought a turtle, but I cought a 35 pound snapper once. But I ate it. lol |
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Gold Member Username: SouthernrebelMonroe, Louisiana USA Post Number: 2831 Registered: Mar-04 | to the guy that bought the turtle at the mall... IT IS ILLEGAL TO SELL TURTLES LESS THAN 4" IN LENGHT IN THE US! All those places that sell them are breaking the law....and just selling them can result in a $1500 per turtle fine. Our farm raises 100% disease free turtles (the law in louisiana makes us have to raise disease free turtles). We abide by the law and only sell outside of the US. (to my knowledge, turtles are the only animals raised in the US that are ILLEGAL to sell in the US) BTW...a UNTREATED turtle carries less than 1/10th of the salmonella that an iguana would carry. (was have a professors from Ole Miss, LSU, and other colleges on our side)...and dogs can carry thousands of times the amount of disease causing microbes...but we are pretty much getting f*cked over by a few individuals high up on the chain. We have developed a technique to make our turtles disease free from the git-go and went we get the market re-opened in the US...we will sell turtles w/ a bowl treatment. (just incase you contaminate the bowl) lol...i have hundreds of pages on studies we have done in conjuction w/ many colleges and firms. when we do get the market open...fell free to buy as many as you want (maybe i'll be able to afford termlab then...lmao) |
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Gold Member Username: SouthernrebelMonroe, Louisiana USA Post Number: 2832 Registered: Mar-04 | oh...and btw, i bet ya no one can guess how much we had to sell last years crop for...per turtle. (hint...we got f*cked) |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 1025 Registered: Jan-06 | Where the hell are you shipping them? I never said sell me a turtle, GIVE'EM TO ME, LOL, mail his @ss via FedEx, haaaaa///Polo..  |
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Gold Member Username: SouthernrebelMonroe, Louisiana USA Post Number: 2835 Registered: Mar-04 | We ship them by the tens of thousands to China, Mexico, Japan, South American Countries, Europe. We usually ship 25,000 to 80,000 at a time. As bad a FedEx is w/ subs???...lol. FedEx + turtle = goop...lmao |
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Gold Member Username: Sploosh56Ohio Post Number: 1262 Registered: May-04 | it's illegal to sell turtles in the state of ohio but you cancatch them and give them away for free or have it set up as buy this tank and get a free turtle |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 1026 Registered: Jan-06 | Ok Marshal one other question, how the hell do you round them all up? Polo.. |
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Gold Member Username: SouthernrebelMonroe, Louisiana USA Post Number: 2837 Registered: Mar-04 |
w/ a laso...how else but really...every day during the summer we dig the eggs and put them in trays. we then wash the dirt off of them and run them through a chemical treatment. then put the trays of eggs in boxes w/ air holes...2 trays per box. put them in out incubating rooms. in 60 days they start to hatch...then we wash the hatchlings and count them out by hand and put them back in the trays. (we through away the eggshells and wash out the boxes) We then put the boxes w/ 125 turtles per box back in the incubators and lower the temp...the turtles then go into hybernation. by the way...we use Clorox by the pallet during the summer. the hair on my arms is usually bleached by June. |
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Gold Member Username: LexuscoopPhx, Arizona Post Number: 1458 Registered: Dec-05 | Marshall send me a turtal thats like 2 weeks old, no one will know.... and i wont pay you for it.... i'll just ship you money because your a good friend |
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Silver Member Username: GoatinU.S.A Post Number: 913 Registered: Jan-06 | Marshal man you are just full of suprises lol. You said you ship most of them to China, Mexico, Japan, South American Countries,and Europe Are they eating them or something? The reason I ask is because besides the texture I like the taste, But I have only tried snapper. What kind of turtles do you raise? |
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Gold Member Username: SouthernrebelMonroe, Louisiana USA Post Number: 2839 Registered: Mar-04 | It is mainly a pet market. But in China, they do put them in heated tanks and grow them to ~6" and eat them. We farm: red ear sliders, yellow ears, king turtles (river cooters), chicken turtles, painted, moon ears, musk turtles, mississippi map...and some others. pics: river cooter http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/coastline/images/big/line2354.jpg red ear http://www.roguer.com/modules/gallery/albums/news/Timmy.jpg red ear http://www.chelonia.org/Tscriptaelegans.jpg mississippi map http://www.dgif.state.va.us/wildlife/species/photos/030065-1.jpg musk (common) http://gallery.cs.umb.edu/gallery/albums/stinkpot/musk_hat_nickel.sized.jpg musk (logger head / razor back) http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/biology/vert-zoo-04s/photos/Sternotherus-m inor.jpg painted http://www.turtlesales.com/southern_paint.jpg |
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Gold Member Username: LexuscoopPhx, Arizona Post Number: 1459 Registered: Dec-05 | hey marshal, how much is the mississippi map one? |
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Silver Member Username: GoatinU.S.A Post Number: 916 Registered: Jan-06 | NS. I like the mississippi map that is tight I always thought all turtles were dumb looking but all I ever seen is a bunch of land turtles a couple box turtles and one time I pulled a Huge snaper out of its hole by its tail Then when I got it on the bank my friend ziek taped it in the face with a piece of drift wood until it chomped down Hard and then he... well you probably dont want to know. I will just say this it let go. |
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Silver Member Username: Kaos15thPost Number: 162 Registered: Mar-05 | i like the mississipi map and the red ear. |
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Gold Member Username: LexuscoopPhx, Arizona Post Number: 1460 Registered: Dec-05 | lol, i was the first one to call it LOL, how much do they cost? |
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Gold Member Username: SouthernrebelMonroe, Louisiana USA Post Number: 2844 Registered: Mar-04 | i cant sell them man...its illegal. we dont have any maps right now anyways...we already sold last years crop over seas. i think the map is one of the coolest looking ones re raise (other than the paints). we have like 5 or 7 sub-species of maps too, they all look just alil different. btw...the reason they are called a map is because the bottom of their shell looks like a maze. sub-species: http://www.chelonia.org/Graptemysbarbourihatchling.jpg maze: http://moblog.co.uk/blogs/1989/moblog_4120990903ee9.jpg |
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Gold Member Username: LexuscoopPhx, Arizona Post Number: 1461 Registered: Dec-05 | the sub one looks sick as heII! dude i told you, your not selling it to me, your giving it to me, and im going to give you money because your a good friend and deserve it |
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Silver Member Username: GoatinU.S.A Post Number: 917 Registered: Jan-06 | Can you sell them when they get bigger? Do you have a web site? |
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Gold Member Username: SouthernrebelMonroe, Louisiana USA Post Number: 2845 Registered: Mar-04 | more maps: http://www.mikeredmer.com/_borders/maptrt.JPG http://turtle-.chat.ru/cagles%20map%20turtle.jpg http://oxbow.colstate.edu/images/Animals/Barbour's%20map%20turtle.JPG http://www.chicagoherp.org/herps/pics/turtle/xGouach2.jpg |
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Silver Member Username: GoatinU.S.A Post Number: 918 Registered: Jan-06 | I mean yeah what Der Führer! said. |
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Silver Member Username: GoatinU.S.A Post Number: 919 Registered: Jan-06 | So far I think this one is the sickest. http://www.chelonia.org/Graptemysbarbourihatchling.jpg |
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Gold Member Username: SouthernrebelMonroe, Louisiana USA Post Number: 2846 Registered: Mar-04 | yea...u can sell a 4"+ turtle. i have seen them for like $80 in pet stores...lol. our farm just sells the lil 1-2" ones though. we sell them crop by crop...we dont grow them off. |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 1030 Registered: Jan-06 | Uuuuummm Marshall, so when ya shippin me a Trachemys scripta elegans ? I'll even take a freak, lol. Polo. |
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Silver Member Username: Terry6405Sullivan, IN US Post Number: 715 Registered: Sep-05 | marshal, build me a sub box to buy, then throw in some free turtles to sweeten the deal |
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Silver Member Username: Terry6405Sullivan, IN US Post Number: 716 Registered: Sep-05 | "Uh oh, i think i herd a toilet fulsh. mabey somebody...lost a turtle" |
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Silver Member Username: NemenPost Number: 772 Registered: Dec-05 | lol lmao you got everyone into turtles marshall i want one too though lol |
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Silver Member Username: WinterfreshpimpChisago, MN America Post Number: 218 Registered: Mar-06 | i want a turtle... |
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Silver Member Username: 420pimp2Post Number: 679 Registered: Jan-06 | fu.ck turtles |
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Gold Member Username: SouthernrebelMonroe, Louisiana USA Post Number: 2861 Registered: Mar-04 | p!mp...you know what, its crazy but this forum wont let you post p-i-m-p.
about half way thru the summer after digging eggs every day, thats pretty much what i say...lmao but...it any of yall were local i would give you a turtle, but i cant ship them. too much BS could come out of it. we are working hard to get the market open in the US...hopfully it will be legal to sell them by this time next year. until then...i'm still stuck at college during the sping and fall semesters and stuck on the ponds all summer. 7 days a week, but i usually get off by 5 or 6 so i get to fish and wakeboard alot. (i'm on the water at least 3days a week) plus...$7 an hour sucks a.ss  |
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Silver Member Username: Terry6405Sullivan, IN US Post Number: 717 Registered: Sep-05 | try 5.25 at movie gallery, and thats after a 10 cent raise |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 1036 Registered: Jan-06 | Terry that isn't even minimum, I feel for you mannnn!!! |
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Gold Member Username: Chaunb3400Huntsville, Alabama U.S. Post Number: 6839 Registered: Jul-05 | min wage here is $5.15.lol |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 1038 Registered: Jan-06 | I thought it was the same in every state? I think it is almost or it is $8.00 here, WTF???Polo. |
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Gold Member Username: Safe_crackerChicago, IL US Post Number: 1039 Registered: Jan-06 | $7.25 , close enough... |
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Silver Member Username: 420pimp2Post Number: 684 Registered: Jan-06 | 12.00 an hour 4 me construction and heavy equipment pay allright 4 now |
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