Dixie Chicks

[1kluckychik]

We were greeted by a nice big Rattlesnake when we parked the car in the garage just now.    My son is freaking because he has to put the trash out tonight.    I told him to wear his boots and levis hed be fine.

It was  a nice big adult  about six feet long...  tasting the vibrations of the garage door as it shut....   another reason to keep your garage doors shut this time of year.

deb

We (he) has killed 9 rattlers, 4 copperheads, 3 cotton mouths, and relocated about 15 non poisonous snakes since Easter.

 

[Beer can]

@Outpost JWB Ouch! hopefully DH is all right

water leaks suck. Hopefully you have a basement under leak? Makes it so much easier to fix.

 

[Beer can]

Not a very good pic, dang thing was moving too fast, but we had a couple water snakes bugging the heck out of us last night bullhead fishing with oldest dd, her boyfriend, and dd #2. Oldest dd wanted me and her bf to leave it alone, 'just wants to eat the bugs by the lantern' I don't think so, kept coming ashore, swimming away, back again, dark, midnight, 1-2am...wouldn't stay away. Looked poisonous to me, copperhead or water moccasin or something...was coming feet from us...wasn't scared, looked like a poisonous massasauga to me, they have rattles though and this didn't, but they do go in water where I don't think our timber rattlers do, could be a young one? Three ft long, bout as round as a garden hose, other was smaller and skinnier. Only water snakes I've seen were black, and huge, seen them six foot long and as big round as my arm, not fun to see them thigh deep in the middle of a river in waders swim right by you with a head the size of my fist....we did catch a bucket full of bullheads last night though

It looked like this

Come to find out, looking them up, our water snakes (non-venomous) look just like that when they are young and turn black when they get older, we were in no danger...still didn't like it!!! Lol!

 

[1kluckychik]

Is that one of those anti paparrazi scarves?

 

[Beer can]

Is that one of those anti paparrazi scarves?

LOL!

Didn't see anyone on here, late, thought I could download the bad pic from phone, and follow up with a easier edit from laptop before anyone noticed, Lol! I added to it.

 

[Beer can]

Happy independence day everyone!

How'd your longcrowers hatch out?

 

[Alaskan]

Yeah, I wanna know too!




The grow-outs that we put in the veggie garden escaped some how.... And decided to live with the ducks. Not as secure with the ducks, but then clearly the veggie garden wasn't either.

 

[minihorse927]

They hatched great, then all died within.minutes of each other 2 weeks later. In a brooders full of other chicks and I didn't lose any other breeds. :/

How'd your longcrowers hatch out?

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

Good morning to all. Saw pic of snake eck!

 

[Mahen100]

Most of the snakes around me are harmless king snakes with the occasional copperhead. I would have been frightened of Beer can's snake too, it didn't look familiar to me!

@klucky: That is a LOT of snakes! Are they on land where boulders abound or near a large lake? I forget that the country around me has had destruction of habitat for wildlife and many subdivisions added since I first lived here.

I've raised a lot of chickens but I have never had one do this before, and don't know quite what to make of it. I was cleaning out the coop this morning, and had taken the cat carrier (I closed the door to it weeks ago so that young birds would not sleep in it). The hen who had hatched out a clutch in that carrier seemed to be very interested in it on the ground by the coop. Anyway, as I stood at the side opening to the coop and dumped shavings into a cart, the chicken checked out the carrier, and then slowly and deliberately walked between my ankles brushing both legs with her feathers. It is a large English Orphington, and she was acting for all the world like a cat rubbing up against its owners legs. I stepped sideways, and dang if she didn't turn around and come from the front and rub between my calves again. Very weird. She's a sweet bird, and doesn't mind being handled, but is not a lap chicken. I wonder what her "nest" being moved had to do with it? Any guesses?