I think there may be a snapping turtle problem around the farm. I've been researching how to make a trap. I looked up the season dates and the size of a legal turtle. But what can I legally do with one if I catch one? I really don't want to mess with butchering one. Seems a waste to just kill them. I was wondering what my options were for getting rid of them after they were caught. Can I relocate them? Or how to find someone who would want them?
We used to catch them in the creek that ran near Spencer. We used a stout length of cord tied off to something on the bank. The business end was a large hook baited with a good sized piece of chicken neck. They are some good eating.
Question: What makes you think you have a problem? The bigger uns will take duckling & goslings right off the top of the water.
Well I'm not sure I do but the last pull of the card on the trail cam by the creek I got video of a wood duck narrowly escaping a snapping turtle attack. I was seeing lots of baby geese around but more and more pairs of geese are showing up in the field and I have seen zero goslings in the past week. It's just really odd that there were lots of goslings and now there are none. I haven't pulled the creek trail cam card for the week though. I'll do that tomorrow and see what is on it.
I'd rather have turtles around than geese personally...... someone will take a trapped one off u.....awsome creatures. This may be first nuisance I've read for killing birds......fish maybe holes in ponds I've heard of......have a heart for your turtle (relocation I'm interested in just wondering legal side) or at least fry it up and give us the recipe.......haha
I've had my share of calls for turtles gulping down ducks and geese. Confirmed the culprits after running them in clean out tanks for a few days and the feathers came out.
Funny the turtle topic came up. We had a visitor or visitors this weekend. Not sure if it's the same one or not. First pic was Sunday evening, the other was this morning.
(1) It shall be unlawful to release any reptile or amphibian into the wild that has been produced in captivity or obtained from outside the state.
(2) It shall be unlawful to release any reptile or amphibian into the wild that was taken from the wild in Ohio and was held in captivity for more than thirty days.
(3) It shall be unlawful to release any reptile or amphibian into the wild at any place other than the location of capture.
(4) It shall be unlawful to release any reptile or amphibian into the wild that has been held in captivity, in the same enclosure with any other species of reptile or amphibian.
Friday we were at a Stoney Ridge Winery in the afternoon and saw one making its way across the lawn to the pond.
Saw two going at it in the shallows while I was 'gill fishing Sunday at La Su Ann. First time I have ever seen two snappers fighting...or mating...I'm not up on turtle behaviors.
This morning I pulled in our lane and there was a dead one next to the threshold that had recently (since I pulled out earlier) been run over.
Snappers everywhere. What's it all mean? Probably either has or will have something to do with climate change.
There are two migration periods for turtles, the spring movement of females looking for nesting then the fall movement of turtles looking for winter habitation.
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