Chickens Not Interested in Rattlesnake dinner

[Outta Here]

If u wouldda cut it open they woulda tore it up. Mine LOVE mud cats, but only if i split the bely open. otherwiss it will lay there until the ants eat it to nothing

I think I'll do that....it's still lying out there; crows haven't found it yet.

 

[jus10inla]

I knew it was definitely a state that touched texas or damn close judging by the terrain... If i still had photo bucket i had some pix of some magnums i killed around Del Rio. Snakes & deer lol

 

[Iluveggers]

We don’t have rattlesnakes here but my dog has caught and killed a few garden snakes. Trying to get him to stop, they eat slugs and mice so they need to be left alone! He does a great job of keeping the deer, squirrels, foxes & chipmunks our of the yard though so I’ll put up with a dead snake now & again!

 

[Ascholten]

The chickens know what that is, don't really 'see' beheaded so want no part of it!
Cut it open so they can get to the meat, that skin is tough on them. Be careful though that smell will bring coons and other critters in too, don't want to attract them to your chicken coop now.

Aaron

 

[Outta Here]

I knew it was definitely a state that touched texas or damn close judging by the terrain... If i still had photo bucket i had some pix of some magnums i killed around Del Rio. Snakes & deer lol

Yeah, we're in the southeast corner of Arizona, 50 minutes from Mexico. We live on 80 acres surrounded by thousands of acres of virgin desert, mostly mesquite. I don't shoot them on my walks--the desert is theirs and snakes only travel 3/4 mile in their whole life--but I sure do when they're around my house. Taurus Judge with 410 shot. This one was 4.5' long.

 

[Outta Here]

The chickens know what that is, don't really 'see' beheaded so want no part of it!
Cut it open so they can get to the meat, that skin is tough on them. Be careful though that smell will bring coons and other critters in too, don't want to attract them to your chicken coop now.

Aaron

Well, I sliced it's belly open lengthwise and they still skirted it. They're young pullets and have never seen one--inexperienced I guess. I'll toss it back into the desert for the coyotes, javalinas, buzzards, or owls. It won't go to waste tonight....

 

[Mtnboomer]

Ive had rattler...VERY GOOD! Chickens would have definitely eaten it if it were cooked.

 

[jus10inla]

Oh wow memories! Javelina cooked rotisserie style by the right tex/mex person will make a coonass think were back home having a cochon d’lait

 

[3KillerBs]

This one was 4.5' long.

 

[jus10inla]

Not a bad one. Biggest we ever killed down there was just over 5.5 ft long, had one weekend we had 7 or 8 stretched across a tailgate around aug / sep before cutting food plots

Around here in the swamps weve killed 7 ft ++ long timber rattlers