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The tea garden offers delicious refreshments and in the curio shop you will find a wide variety of souvenirs, as well as vacuum packed crocodile meat. Informative guided tours are given in English and Afrikaans. Croc City Crocodile Farm is situated 50 kilometres north of Johannesburg Central and is close to game parks, the Lanseria International Airport, the Cradle of Humankind and the Hartbeespoort Dam. Crocodile Facts Our hatchlings are kept in the controlled environmental building and fed daily. Young crocodiles are very susceptible to infections, which usually cause high mortalities. The young crocodiles' immune system does not function efficiently at temperatures below 23º Celsius and so warmth needs to be provided especially through winter. We feed them on our own special formula of vitamins and mineral pellets. These pellets ensure that all hatchlings get a healthy balanced diet. Pellets are more hygienic than meat, as meat poses a health problem in an enclosed area where micro-organisms flourish in these surroundings. The grower crocodiles are fed chickens. All crocodiles in the grower areas are fed as much as they can safely consume, with the purpose of ensuring the crocodiles are the size required, when they are sold, 1.2 m-1.6 m. We collect “fresh” chicken mortalities from local chicken farmers in the area on a daily basis, thereby providing a service to the chicken farmers in the disposal of their dead chickens. Rations are measured out according to the nutritional needs of the crocodiles. Grower crocs are fed daily with the number of chickens varying from summer to winter. During the winter months crocs do not actively feed as their metabolism is slowed by insufficient warmth. Crocodiles are cold-blooded reptiles. As the temperature increases, so does the amount of food they consume, which means they grow faster. The total weight of chickens currently fed per year is around 300 tonnes. Forthcoming events Crocodile feeding every Saturday and Sunday at 14:00 . The weekend of the 12th and 13thof September the big monsters will be fed after 4 months of NO food. The 24th of September is Heritage day also ‘National Braai Day’, we will light the fires, bring your braaipacks and picnic baskets and join us for ‘Braai day’. Vacuum packed crocodile meat is available from the curio shop. Competition Help us to improve our database and win a Birthday party to the value of R2500 for yourself or your child. The adult’s party include a crocodile on the spit and drinks, if you wish for your child to have their birthday party we will do the catering for the children, with a birthday cake and a jumping castle. Draw will take place the end of October 2009 and the winner will be announced in the November newsletter. How to enter: It’s simple – Forward this e-mail to 10 of your friends and cc info@croccity.co.za. Make sure your friends addresses are in the ‘TO’ bit of the email, NOT the ‘BCC; bit. Your friends can then forward the same email to their friends, thereby also getting the opportunity to win. Only the main address in the ‘FROM’ bit will be entered into our competition database. Join our Facebook group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37802389408&ref=mf We welcome your feedback. If there's something we have missed, please email us with your suggestions. Meanwhile, please share this with your friends and encourage them to sign up for this FREE newsletter by emailing us. Hope to see you soon!
The Croc City Team
info@croccity.co.za
083 321 1016 083 657 7561
www.croccity.co.za
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