Turtlescaping

[injunjoe]

Yummy!

Be sure and note that this is a recipe for turtles and not tortoises! As tortoises are strict vegetarians.

I wouldn't want to see those fish guts go to waste ! LOL

Ron

Good point!

Also; All Tortoises are Turtles! But not all Turtles are Tortoises!

Joe

 

[Broke Down Ranch]

Recipe for Turtle Pudding


Ingredients for approximately 18 pints


1 to 2 lbs high quality gelatin.
"Example Dr. Oetker gelatin powder: 20 treble packs with 9g each"
3.5 lbs trout, complete with intestines and head
1.5 lbs shrimp
1.0 lb mussels
3.5 lbs beef heart
6 eggs
9 small jars of baby food (0.44 lb each)
You can use carrots, spinach, garden vegetables
0.75 lb Chicken or Rabbit Liver
2 tablespoons of vitamins for turtles "Example Jurassi Vite"
2 packages of red food coloring (strawberry red)
2.5 liters tap water
Aluminum trays, preferably 0.5 liter or 1 liter size as sold for Lasagna


Recipe:

Before you get started, you will need two large pots and a meat grinder. The pots should be sized in order to take 12 liters (or 21 pints) each. One pot is needed for the gelatin, the other for the ground meat and other ingredients.

Open all packages of the gelatin and combine with 2.2 liters (3.9 pints) of cold water, stirring continuously. Let the gelatin soak for a minimum of 20 minutes. The meat, fish, shrimp and liver has to be forced through a meat grinder. All other ingredients are added to the meat mix and need to be stirred well. Dissolve the food coloring with 0.3 liter (0.5 pint) of warm water and add to the mixture

Both pots need to get heated carefully to approximately 40 degrees Celsius (102 deg. F) and stirred continuously. A second person comes in handy at that time. Having reached the temperature, the food mix is added to the gelatin under continuous stirring. Afterwards the food mix is poured into the aluminum trays.

Allow everything to cool before transferring the trays into the freezer. If smaller amounts of food are needed, the pudding may be scored with a knife into smaller sections once it has cooled down. This helps to brake the pudding into smaller pieces once it is frozen.

 

[injunjoe]

What a guy has to do to keep all the kids happy!

Joe

 

[jojo54]

Do you keep the turtles outside? If so, don't you have predator trouble trying to eat them?

 

[injunjoe]

Do you keep the turtles outside? If so, don't you have predator trouble trying to eat them?

Yes they are outside all year round.
Look back in the thread and you will see the waterfalls,pond and cave are within a pen made just for my hard shelled friends. It is a cage above and below the ground!

Nothing gets in nor does anything get out without my knowledge.
Other then small critters of course.

Joe

 

[injunjoe]

Feeding time. Today we are serving rib eye meat, Pineapple, and some Romaine lettuce. Funny when people come to visit the Flintstones hide in there cave.

Joe

 

[Greensage45]