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#189497 - 03/06/08 03:22 PM PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it...
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My daughter was out in our pasture and found this.. I don't know what to think of it. It is whole and whatever is in it is still alive. She felt it moving around when she was holding it in her hand. Anyone??









Link to my photobucket account is further down in this post!

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#189498 - 03/06/08 03:23 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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Pics didn't come through.
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#189501 - 03/06/08 03:25 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: tamara]
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Bother!! I have so much trouble getting pics to load on here.. Grrr!
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#189504 - 03/06/08 03:28 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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I never have trouble posting here...my trouble is in the uploading to photobucket.
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#189505 - 03/06/08 03:30 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: tamara]
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Well they are in photobucket... unless it is just slow today... This is so irritating!!
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#189509 - 03/06/08 03:32 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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You could always ask for a link like we have to put your photobucket on here.
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#189511 - 03/06/08 03:35 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: tamara]
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How do you do that?? I have posted pics here before.. but they always take a while to show up for some reason... =(
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#189516 - 03/06/08 03:43 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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Ok, I am going to try to post my photobucket link on here.. so you can go there to see it.. is that what you meant Tamara??

http://www.s19.photobucket.com/albums/b169/pinkhorseofcourse/
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#189517 - 03/06/08 03:45 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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There.. that worked.. It is the first 3 pics on that page. Please go see it and tell me what you think it is.. My daughter is currently trying to pry it open.. she says it is an oyster!! ;)
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#189520 - 03/06/08 03:53 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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It's a clam.
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#189521 - 03/06/08 03:53 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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Razor Clam
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#189523 - 03/06/08 04:01 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Bill]
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How did a clam end up in your pasture?
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#189525 - 03/06/08 04:03 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: tamara]
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Why do I have a clam in our horse field??
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#189526 - 03/06/08 04:04 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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Hahaha Tamara!! That is a VERY good question! Where do they come from??
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#189527 - 03/06/08 04:04 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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Maybe a bird dropped it?
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#189528 - 03/06/08 04:05 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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A sea bird (probably a Gull) dropped it
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#189529 - 03/06/08 04:06 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found it... [Re: jonni13]
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Tina.. this thing is pretty big.. It is 5 1/2 inches long and 3 1/2 inches wide and about 1 1/2 inch thick!!
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#189531 - 03/06/08 04:08 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found i [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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Hmm.. I don't know Bill.. seems odd a Sea Bird would be in our neck of the woods. And Courtney has found clam shells in the field before.. but never a whole clam.

So what do we do with it now???

LMBO Courtney just asked me if we can keep it!! She said it is her buddy!!

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#189543 - 03/06/08 04:59 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found i [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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Do you have any rivers around? The gulls can certainly tote that size. I live in the desert a good hundred miles from the ocean and we get gulls here all of the time. Specially when the weather out to sea is bad. Gulls like to drop clams onto rocks to try to crack them open.
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#189548 - 03/06/08 05:05 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found i [Re: jonni13]
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Well we don't have any big rivers around.. I mean not close.. but I suppose if you get them living in the desert it is certainly possible for us to have them too.. it just seems so funny. So what should I do with the thing??
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#189556 - 03/06/08 05:29 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found i [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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Well, I wouldn't let it stay in the house. If there is a clam in there alive, it won't stay that way long. And they don't smell too nice when they die. If there is a live clam and you aren't attempting to keep it alive, when you apply heat and the shell will open. You can toss it in boiling water or on a grill if you happen to have a lit one around. If it is alive it will open. If it is not alive, it won't. But it won't be alive after that experiment.
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#189563 - 03/06/08 05:52 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found i [Re: jonni13]
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Hmm.. ok.. thanks for that info. Courtney is now taking it back out to the field where she found it.

I am sure it was alive.. because you could feel it moving around in there.. very interesting.
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#189670 - 03/07/08 03:51 AM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found i [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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The clam will die without water anyway. I agree it was dropped by a bird.

They are delicious though, we dig them at the beach here when it's low tide.
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#189789 - 03/07/08 11:17 AM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found i [Re: tamara]
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Yeah, well, I really wanted to taste the little bugger, but Courtney wouldn't hear of it!! He is probably frozen by now.. I should have just ate it!
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#189816 - 03/07/08 12:22 PM Re: PICS!! What IS this? A mussel? My daughter just found i [Re: Pinkhorseofcourse]
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don't racoons eat clams???---but is there a pond around ?/
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