Farming Hinterland turtles

Far east on the coast of The Hinterlands in the Eastern Kingdoms continent is a great place for players with a skinning profession to make some quick gold. There are lots of them and they have a fast respawn rate. They will also not attack you unless attacked first, with the exception of one turtle called Gammerita. It is recommended to be in a group of level 35+ or you can easily handle them solo at level 50+ Although you will want to be 5+ levels higher to allow for killing them quicker.
The turtles drop 
* Big-Mouth Clam
** These clams drop often. Read below for what you can get from these clams
* Speckled Shell Fragment
** These fragments drop as part of a quest but a stack of 5 can be sold to a vendor for 45 silver. These drop quite often.
* Turtle Meat
** This meat drops fairly regularly and can be sold on the auction house for a decent markup or used in cooking.
* Thick Scaly Tail
** This is basically useless and not worth farming for profit.
* Raw Spotted Yellowtail
** This meat drops somewhat rarely, and can be used in cooking.
By skinning the turtles you get
* Thick Leather
** Used in leatherworking. This drops most of the time.
* Rugged Leather
** Used in leatherworking. This drops some of the time.
* Turtle Scale
** Used in leatherworking. This drops regularly and sometimes more than one will drop.
* Thick Hide
** Rare drop. Used in leatherworking.
What you can get from the big mouth clams
* Black Pearl
** Rare drop. Also used in leatherworking.
* Golden Pearl
** Rare drop. Also used in leatherworking.
* Zesty Clam Meat
** High chance of dropping. Can be sold on the auction house for profit or used in cooking.
* Iridescent Pearl
** Rare drop. Also used in leatherworking.
* Small Lustrous Pearl
** Rare drop. Also used in leatherworking.
Also these turtles very, very rarely will drop armor or weapons such as
*Ivory Wand
All in all these turtles are a great source to farm simply from the large variety of high value in demand items that they drop and the items resale/usefulness value.
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