Anyone ever try to hatch them? If so, did you have any luck?
They seem to be really active nesting right now as we have seen 4 in our plots over the past two weekends. While my buddy was planting this morning there were 2 digging holes in one plot. They heading to the timber when he showed so he wasn't sure if they had already laid their eggs or not. He did give me a general idea of where they were, so the girls and I headed up to see if we could find one of the nests to get some of the eggs to see them hatch. It was hard looking as he had ran the planter over the field, but sure enough Shea found the nest and we dug up some of the eggs. Ended up with 37 of them and there will still lots we left and covered back up!!
Brought them home and put them in an old aquarium in the kitchen. God bless my wife.....
And I still can't believe my girls beg to do this kind of crap!
Snapper I saw digging yesterday morning.
According to what I read on the web, we hope to have some baby snappers in 80 to 90 days. If so, we'll return them to the pond their momma came from.
They seem to be really active nesting right now as we have seen 4 in our plots over the past two weekends. While my buddy was planting this morning there were 2 digging holes in one plot. They heading to the timber when he showed so he wasn't sure if they had already laid their eggs or not. He did give me a general idea of where they were, so the girls and I headed up to see if we could find one of the nests to get some of the eggs to see them hatch. It was hard looking as he had ran the planter over the field, but sure enough Shea found the nest and we dug up some of the eggs. Ended up with 37 of them and there will still lots we left and covered back up!!
Brought them home and put them in an old aquarium in the kitchen. God bless my wife.....
And I still can't believe my girls beg to do this kind of crap!
Snapper I saw digging yesterday morning.
According to what I read on the web, we hope to have some baby snappers in 80 to 90 days. If so, we'll return them to the pond their momma came from.