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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On May 9, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > This time of year you can find terrapins making nests, basically a  
> > hole in
> the ground where they lay half a dozen or so leathery eggs.  Last  
> year we found
> a terrapin doing so and when she had covered the eggs and left, we  
> put a fence
> around the nest, four old queen excluders.  Late in the summer we  
> found two
> newly hatched turtles in there and the girls raised them in a  
> terrarium over
> the winter and set them on their way this spring.

Wonderful. Most people who take them do them no good at all. How big  
were they when released?