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It's been a sad two days in the Minneapolis area...Today and yesterday in Prior Lake, MN (where my airborne express route is) I have seen 4 adult snappers killed while leaving a body of water, trying to cross the street to lay eggs in the neighboring golf course. These girls were BIG too...

I did see some young teenager helping the largest common snapper that I have seen in Minnesota cross the street in Eden Prairie, MN (where I live). It crawled out of a very shallow, very narrow stream, called Purgatory Creek. I was amazed that a snapper would have traveled down that stream (at least a mile from the main lake).

I just hope those four snappers that I saw laying dead in the road (all within a 1/2 mile apart) were able to lay their eggs.

About a week earlier there was another one in the same area that had been killed.....

-Phew

man that really sucks
hey did you get an e-mail from me?

what the lenght and weigt of your snappers now?

Where I live in New Jersey I've seen three big adult snappers dead on the roads and 2 smaller ones. I was able to help one huge snapper though. When I was on my way home with my mom I saw the biggest snapper I have ever seen in the area a foot away from traffic on the other side of the road. My mom kinda stopped/slowed down the car and I jumped out and grabbed the snapper by the tail to stop it from going any further. Then I picked it up partially by holding the tail and holding the back of the turtle just so I could get it out of the road. I know holding by just the tail isn't good and what I did wasn't much better but I had to get her and me out of the road because it was really busy. Plus I was having some trouble picking her up, she was heavy! There was a small river down the road aways, but I knew I couldn't carry her that far so I put her in the car and we drove her down to a big lake in the middle of a park right in the same area. That way if she hadn't layed eggs yet she could come out of the water and not be on a busy road. I was pretty excited about helping the turtle but later that day I saw another big one dead in the road. I wish there was a way to put up turtle crossing signs or do something to help them....

Man I can't remember ever seeing a dead snapper in the road poor things. The last one I can remember moving from the road was about 10 inches back when I lived in florida. There was anothjer car stopped goign to grab it but I got to it first a mom came out yelling at me saying the protected and that I can't take it and that she has my license plate number. I said that it was a snapper not a gopher and left, kinda bothered me but I never got any phone calls.
Xavier

I know this probably sounds gruesome, but if I were you I would try to get the dead turtles, cut them open and see if the eggs ar3e still in there. If they are wash them with not chlorinated water, and get them to the incubator. I have done this with a yellow belly slider before just to see if it would work, and it did. And this turtle was dead for about a week, and the eggs were still veeeery healthy. It stunk though.
Justin

Man that realy sucks