DonnaM Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 My friend emailed me this interesting story about Pearl the turtle. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4720432a11.html Not sure how to put that link on here..... :roll: Oh, it worked! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted October 8, 2008 Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 "Truck" one of our turtles came to us as she had been run over by a truck split her shell open on one side and a piece was adrift from the rest of shell we fibreglassed her back together and 6 months later it fell off with new shell grown underneath the new piece of shell has no scutes on it 12 years on she is one of our best breeders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnaM Posted October 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2008 Truck sounds like one lucky turtle. "Avon"... (came out of the Avon river a couple of years ago)... Had a hole right thru her shell the size of a 20c piece. I just cleaned, iodined and kept dry docking her at night over the winter and it amazingly grew a skin which then hardened. Incredible what they can recover from, but pity they have to. She's had pneumonia, eye infections, vit A deficiency... and was SOOO shy you hardly saw her for months, but shes now really placid and healthy. She's kinda special after what she's been thru. A real survivor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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