Any body know what turtles eat?

[tnlogger]

she aways comes home  :D it's just the mood she's in when she git there  :-\

[Daren]

I misread the question, I thought it was "How turtles eat", the are pretty good eatin'. Not the kind in the pic. Snappers are good eatin', hard to dress out though. Saute the meat in a pan with a couple strips of bacon, and a cut up onion. Then throw it in the crockpot with stewed tomatoes, green peppers, a little celery, water, salt and pepper, a handfull of mushrooms if you got 'em. I have even seen new potatoes throw in, even corn or red beans. My wife likes it with white rice, I have to have cornbread.

[Roxie]

Geesh Daren....I'm glad I didn't post a question on what to feed my dog?  You'd be throwing out pup on a stick recipes.   :D :D

[Bibbyman]

This turtle came up on our back porch a few times last summer to snack on dog food and scraps.  It's back more often this year and has gotten quite bold.  When he comes up,  we'll provide him with his own little serving.  This time it was left-over spaghetti. 

We've figured out that it is a he because his under shell is dished in.   

What's funny is... the dog will eat her portion and just watch the turtle eat his.

[Snag]

1.) Salmonella is bad stuff.  I was hospitalized for 2 months when I was five and just about didnt make it. 

2.) God I hate snakes.  I would have been sleeping in the car.

[isawlogs]

  I dont like um , dont stand hum or like to look at hum ....   there would be holes in the floor where lead would of caught up with it . 

[johnjbc]

Got her to go back to camp :D. I had to crawl under the trailer and calk every hole and crack. : :
Every trip to camp now starts with a snake check. We look under every cushion on the couch, love seat and chairs, in the cupboards, and under the bed. When we leave she has the sleeping bag rolled up tight so snakes can't get in. :P

[BBTom]

That black snake was just making certain that the mice didn't take over the camp.  If you got rid of him, you might better be getting some mouse traps.

[Modat22]

I've had oodles of turtle pets, Get him and leave him alone for awhile because he'll be in shock of his new surroundings. Get him one of those heated rocks used for lizards  and give him alot of room to get away from the rock so he can cool down.

If he won't eat after 6 or 7 days force feed him some wax worms by using plastic tooth picks as to not break his beak.

Good luck!.

P.S. Most of the bad bacteria from the turtle is in the waste, always wash hands if the turtle makes water, mud or anything else for that matter.

If you want to know if its male or female, look at the bottom of the shell. If you see a depression in the bottom of the shell its probably male, flat bottom its a female. I generally let the females go, because they have trouble at times with eggs. If they can't find the ideal spot to have them they'll hold them in and die if the egg isn't reabsorbed.

[Bibbyman]

This turtle came up on our back porch a few times last summer to snack on dog food and scraps.  It's back more often this year and has gotten quite bold.  When he comes up,  we'll provide him with his own little serving.  This time it was left-over spaghetti. 

We've figured out that it is a he because his under shell is dished in.   

What's funny is... the dog will eat her portion and just watch the turtle eat his.

I could hear the dowg barking on the porch.  Mary called out for me to come there. What I found when I got there was the Puddenhead trying to eat her food and keep the bold box turtle from eating it too.  The turtle was not intimidated by Puddenhead's barking and kept trying to get over the edge of the dish to get at the food.

I ran back to the bedroom to get my camera.  When I opened the door so I could get a better picture,  Puddenhead stopped what she was doing and stepped away as if to tell me to come and help her out.  I kept waiting for her to give up and go back to eating and barking at the turtle so I could get a picture.  But after a couple of minutes the batteries in the camera went dead.

In order to break up the fight,  I set the bowl of food up on some bricks too high for the turtle to get at.  It hung around awhile as if analyzing the situation. It approached the new location of the food but then gave up and lumbered off.

The box turtle showed up a couple of weeks ago.  I'm sure it's the same one that was here last summer. 

Puddenhead polished off the food and went off somewhere.  Soon the woodpeckers were back looking for food.  We've been noticing birds, especially woodpeckers fighting over the dry dog food. 

I'm not sure what is different about this dog food that attracts the birds but it sure does.

[SwampDonkey]

"Yo! Hey Adrian. This turtle food has more moths than flies. When the turtle eats the moths, they get stuck in the back of it's throat and I have to knock on it's shell to help the turtle swallow it. This gives the turtle shell shock."

Rocky Balboa

;D