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.