my family has done the same thing Countrywolf! Isn't a great feeling to save something.

The neighbor was tilling his field when he found the nest of babies hopping around. He tilled around the nest but the mother had already abandoned them. We went out late that night and saved what babies hadn't froze to death (it got cold that night )

We raised them till they were big enough and we let them go. Did the same to a nest of painter turtles.

I loved growing up in the country