Video – When we started free ranging our critters, we knew they would raid the garden occasionally. With the acceptation of the four-legged critters, they are more than welcome to do so. After all, the ducks and chickens might take a bit of our produce now and then, but they more than make up for it in pest control. What we didn’t expect was that the different critters would conduct cross species raids.
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Now this was a surprise. Our box turtle’s have left us a couple of eggs. Well, we hope the work was both theirs. Actually, although we are going to guard them and keep them warm, we do not have a great amount of hope that they will hatch. From what we read, it is incredibly unlikely and even if they do hatch the survival rate is tiny. Still, we do hold some hope and now that we know they are fertile the work on the pond area has increased. In fact, additional plans have been added now that we’ve looked into optimum conditions for their off spring to survive.
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The single largest threat to the North American box turtle is the North American who continues to chop up the natural habitat and capture the critter for sale to the public. Most turtles who survive the initial capture and pet store sale do not live to their normal life expectancy of 40 to 100 years due to poor care and the misconception that they make good pets. We do not keep turtles as pets. Instead, we rescue them from injury and destroyed habitat with the hopes of nursing them back to health and providing a free range home in which they can thrive or leave if they desire.
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Turtle Pond and Zen Garden
With so many turtles splattered on the back roads around here, I suppose it was bound to happen. We have started a small turtle rescue and preserve. I say it is a preserve and rescue because for the life of me I can not come up with a ‘no kill’ use for turtles and our farm is strictly a no kill business.
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