How long for turtle detox?

GBov · Nov 23, 2010

Scooped up a turtle off the road a few months ago and my mum had a strong allergic reaction to it but hadnt had a problem to the first turtle we ate so we narrowed it down to the fact that the turtles round here are all from ponds that are edged with houses and have many lawn chemicals washing into them and the turtles get contaminated by them.

Have picked up a nice little soft shell turtle this week so have put a fence round our little garden pond and its now in there.

The plan is to feed it for awhile and then eat it AFTER any contaminants have worked their way out of its system.

Question is, how long to keep it till we eat it?

suitcase_sally · Nov 29, 2010

Keep it about 12-13 years. They live for a couple of hundred years so maybe in 12-13 years he can escape the confines of his torturous life.

GBov · Nov 29, 2010

As it wont eat for me, its going back to the wild. Not much point keeping it to just watch it starve itself.

Oh, and in the wild they only live to about 50ish years.

SweetwaterClyde · Dec 10, 2010

As a kid my cousins neighbor wanted every turtle we caught. He would keep them in an old horse trough with clean water being circulated through it. I believe he fed them table scraps. Turtles eat all kinds of nasties when they are in the river, it is probably getting ready to hibernate and not interested in food right now. Turtles should be no more dangerous to eat than any bottom feeding fish, such as catfish...which coincidentally the old man would put in the trough to "unmuddy" them as well.

DavidUnderwood · Dec 10, 2010

Always scald a turtle before cutting it.
Don't feed the friggin thing. Kill it. Scald
it.
clean and eat it. Simple. Don't try to feed a
turtle. Scald it. After dead, of course.

salmonslayer91 · Dec 11, 2010

suitcase_sally said:
Keep it about 12-13 years. They live for a couple of hundred years so maybe in 12-13 years he can escape the confines of his torturous life.

lol im a turtle lover two i have FOUR boxies and used to have sliders too i was thinking about 20yrs myself

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