chicks killed a poisonous SNAKE!! *PICS*!!!

[janjan1]

Im up in the NW section of Ga. Rome area to be exact, about an hour north of Atlanta, 1 hour south of Chattanooga. I've got about 25 free range chickens that roam my farm & local woods area. About a month ago, I came across a copperhead when I was hooking up my trailer to go get a load of hay. It took me a few minutes for it to actually register that yep, that's a snake I'm looking at. Needless to say, I tried to kill it, but it got away rather quickly back into the wooded area of my place. I'm more careful now when I go into the wooded areas of my place and around sections that normally don't go frequently now. Where there is one, there is possibly more.
Jan

 

[featherfooted]

My DS came home from school friday for the weekend and yesterday he and our english setter, Lady, found a copperhead in our shop. By the time he got back to the shop from telling me it had moved, so we move things to find it. We finally found it and he was able to kill it and no one was bitten. I don't worry to much about the big dogs, but I worry about my little Rat Terrier getting bit as she only weights 8 pounds and is into everything. This is the second copperhead in a month and Lady found both of them and Chris was home both times.

 

[texaschickmama]

I have read in our snake book that copperheads stay within 100 yds of where they were born. We have killed them here, too. We have killed 3 since living here, in 3 years. The ones here are aggressive. They have been known to chase. The man that lives behind us has yorkies, yes yorkies, that always find them and bring them to his door dead. I guess the little size allows them to get into where they are hiding. My son was almost bitten by one last Spring. It was under his Tonka dumptruck that was upside down. He reached to turn it over and surprise an adult copperhead, coiled and posed to strike. Just be careful and aware of these.

 

[Ginger Chic]

Another Georgian chiming in... It has been my experience that if you only see one poisonous snake in your yard (or basement as in our case), then there are several more hanging around that you just haven't noticed yet. So far our neighbor has killed 6+ this year (twice he found one in the pool skimmer thingy & had to get it out to kill it). Thus the DH isn't allowed to wander out into the woods without his machete and I've been known to take it to the coop with me to check for eggs. You can't be too careful.

 

[mgibbzzz]

i guess I'll chime in on the medical part of it. Most people that are affected by a cooperhead bite are having more of an allergic reaction than the poison actually affecting them. You still need to be treated as with any bite. But if a person is having a bad reaction, it is an allergic reaction.

 

[Shared Acres]

I'm in N. Fla, I think hubby said we have them here. Haven't seen them, only grass snakes, rattlers and moccasins. Don't want to see any of them!

Sooo glad your chicks got the snake and not the other way around!