Feeding Giant Alligator Snapping Turtles Giant Fish!!! Loggerhead Acres Turtle Farm
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- In today’s episode of Feeding Friday’s, we travel to Missouri and visit the Loggerhead Acres Alligator snapping turtle farm, and we feed the turtles some huge Buffalo fish!
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Incredible...I just learned about this farm and I think it's so cool
Really cool place, laid back in the country hills
You make handling these beasts look so easy. Great job.
Years of experience haha
@@GregsTurtleHaven no doubt. Just really enjoy your vids. Especially the AST, common snapping turtle and soft shell turtle vids. I’ve learned a lot. Thanks.
Not hard as long as you know how to handle them they aren't hard to handle only uneducated people who fuck with them and mistreat them get hurt
alligator snapping turtles are my favorite turtles they are so prehistoric, I love them!
Small mouth Buffalo are native fish at least they're not going to waste
Im impressed how he just reached in and grabbed one 😭
I have friends that love eating the “ribs” from Buffalo. Love AST’s. Such amazing beautiful turtles. Thanks for another great vid.
Thanks for watching
Love seeing those big heads pop up out of the water!
Every time I thought I saw a huge head, and even bigger one would pop up
@@GregsTurtleHaven that's awesome! I cant wait to see one myself
He always has the best snappers. I got 3 hatchlings late September 2020, egg tooth and all. Now here in June they are already 5-6 inches in shell length
That’s fast growth!
Man I wouldn't be handling these alligator snapping turtles without chainmail gloves! I have been told what the regular snapping turtles can do. I guess you know what you're really doing please be careful!
Chainmail helps prevent cuts, not crushing, which is what snapping turtles do. They snap their jaws shut with a lot of force.
This is where my little guy came from. I might see his mom and dad!!
Good Job yinz have. Must be fun
Greg, I have a new one, a 38 year old loggerhead musk turtle female.
Q: Do they have a two sided hinged plastron?
I cannot find proper information about that.
Thanks in advance.
AND NICE TO SEE A NEW VIDEO from you after being robbed of your equipment!
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Mud turtles typically are the ones with two hinges, loggerheads the forelobe of the plastron has a rudimentary hinge
@@GregsTurtleHaven Thank you very much for taking the time to answer!
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How do you know the Turtle is 38?
@@jamesstripling7178 I'm the second owner.
@@Hemp1972 10/4
I HAVE to come visit & SEE these turtles!!….. (I think egg laying just finished recently?)🙂❤️🐢 I LOvE Snappers!
Thank you, great video. Always glad to see alligator snapping turtles. 🐢
Great video.I’d love to go to Loggerhead Farms.I have an 8 year old female AST that was hatched there
I have a couple that originated from there, and they are fantastic. It’s cool to see the pond and adults where all the babies are coming from
My female is around the same size as the one you pulled out. Got her as a hatchling in 96. After 26 years, she is still amazing to just watch and feed. Love this Species. Wicked video. New Subscriber from Toronto, Canada.
pro tip:if you ever see an alligator snapping turtle in the wild run for your fucking life
I’m doing it wrong then, lol 😂 👍🏼
When I was a kid visiting relatives in Eastern Ky, I found one in a creek after a storm. I took a thick branch, poked at it, it grabbed the branch out of my hand, hissed like a snake and it’s head was huge. My grandmother told me it was a gator turtle, to stay away from them, because they can break arms and legs.
You should see the crazy bones that those Buffalo fish have in them , they're like corkscrews.
Greg i was going to order 3 hatchlings from this farm in may of this year, i built a 1,000 gallon enclosure for them to start off in. Sadly the state i live in deemed them illegal unless proper permits are acquired. I need to move out of Illinois.
Cool recycling of invasives. Was just about to ask about the source of fish when I got to the end where you explained. Love spearfishing and bowfishing, but where I live only invasives/less palatable fish are legal to hunt that way so I might have to find a local turtle guy. I won't kill something that doesn't get eaten/used.
I feel you buddy I don’t trust humans either!! Completely understand
Ordered my two ast from John last week looking forward to seeing them in there new cut down 75 gallon tank.
Finallyyyyy
I kept thinking that one of these guys were going to get bit
Brave man puts that hand right in there & Grabs one. Awesome Job
😂👍🏼
Are they open to the public like a pet store???
Buffalo are invasive? Where are you at?
Thats where I bought my alligator snapping turtles from
Those fish are called "Gaspagoos".
Buffalo fish nasty to much bones
The way he was explaining that pond in the beginning-that’s a wealthy middle animal kingdom class neighborhood
I just caught up to this video. Incredible AST farm. Your channel is really good!
Can I buy one from you and how much
what is the biggest one in there
When you guys talk about having permits to hold AST's do you mean to own them or do you have to have a permit to touch a wild one(I know it's illegal to take one home obviously but I just mean to touch).
So depending upon your state, you may need permits for possession of (pet) alligator snappers, and in some states (Florida for example) you need a permit to handle wild alligator snappers
Oh alright thanks a lot, that makes sense.
I have seen 20 pounders climb a fence
Interesting visit for you Greg. I visited in 2009. And in 1993 John went out a few days with me in Missouri searching. John and I got Arkansas to stop the harvest on the species, also in 1993.
Yea he told me about you trapping that area. Stories for days
glad your back
my snapper just came in from them
😍😍😍😍😍 relly me
Uh 22 😂😂
Update two months later and the two I received from John are awesome already growing and come to the front of their tank every morning to get fed I couldn’t be happier thank you so much.
Cool concept place, did they tell you roughly how many snappers they have in that pond?
Roughly 300 females, 150males
@@GregsTurtleHaven wow that’s insane
@@GregsTurtleHaven So, not a good place for swimming then! 😂
My favorite turtle but I love all aquatic turtles and turtles in general but Something is so awesome about the alligator snipers their name their shell I am veal and respect y’all taking care of them I would love to do stuff like that
Yea, there's no way I'm sticking my hand in that murky water! Great shots, thanks.
My AST will only eat live fish. I've put dead fish , fish filets , beef, chicken, pork, and shrimo in his tank and he totally ignores all of it. Any ideas on how I could get him to eat something other than live fish ?
Depending on how big your turtle is, you can feed Mazuri Freshwater Turtle diet, or if it is a bit bigger, Mazuri Crocidillian Diet small
Once mine hit a certain size she didnt mess with the small pellets (freshwater turtle diet). Now she loves the Crocidillian Diet small (1/2" pellets). They float on top of the water and she chomps it right up.
Alligator Snapping Turtles and the Common Snapping Turtles are awesome.
Thad dude have balls..
Of steel
Can common snapping turtles and alligator snapping turtles produce hybrid babies
Yes, some have in captivity
Is the farm specifically for saving the species?
Thank you for saving these amazing animals, (who are sooo tasty I am told), would 🖤🖤 to spend a day with you learning more and discussing/ dissecting what I have witnessed/ experienced, and the theories I created from this....(Would be wonderful experience for us both I would believe. )
Dinosaurs!🐢🦕🦖
Yep!
Those fish are great eating if you purge them.
Keep up the awesome videos 😊
Thanks for watching!
Your welcome 🙂
7:02 I swear he stared right into the camera so menacingly.😂
I've thought for years if I ever get an AST it will be from Loggerhead Acres 🐢
The number one source!
awesome video! thank you!
Buffalo are native... carp are invasive.
He feeds both
Please stop feeding them natives, there are plenty of Asian Carp to catch and feed them in Missouri.
Sorry I saw at the end of the video you feeding Tilapia.
This were fish caught by bow hunters during a fishing festival, so instead of them being disposed of they go to John’s farm. He also feeds the invasive Asian carp as well 👍🏼
@@GregsTurtleHaven I am glad they are not going to waste, but as a former fish gigger, and bowman, it is terrible what many are doing to native Gar and Buffalo/Sucker fish. In many places where they used to be abundant they are now rare here in Missouri what has replaced them is Carp.
Oh, those buffalo fish are not an invasive species, theyre naturally occuring. Now the yellow carp or also called russian or german carp are introduced as well as asian carp. But the fish in this video are buffalo, plentiful, not at all in trouble of low numbers. And im surprised the dont cut the spines and subdermal spine bones. I heard that John did cut them out. I use a Kabar big brother knife very sharp and i cut the spines and associated bones completely out. I heard from someone John lost some turtles to the carp bones damaging the intestines.
You’re right; I got confused bc John mentioned one of the carp species the bow hunters donate being invasive
@@GregsTurtleHaven the bow hunters are certainly an excellent source for turtle food !
Praise the LORD for creating loggerhead turtles!