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[lazy gardener]

Yeah, the itch is incredible!!! Surprised your horse didn't go into total panic mode.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Black snakes are great for rodents but scary big sometimes! I admit I might have moved away. Fast!

 

[Kusanar]

Yeah, the itch is incredible!!! Surprised your horse didn't go into total panic mode.

Black snakes are great for rodents but scary big sometimes! I admit I might have moved away. Fast!

Lol, those 6 footers are normal at my barn, I catch them and put them IN the barn every now and then. This one was running around in the riding ring when I caught her, but I move them inside the barn all the time so the horses don't step on them when they come in. The horses are completely unphased by snakes, they don't pay any attention to them at all because they are all over the place in the summer.

I know there are at least a few big ones at my farm because there is a snake shed hanging from the ceiling in one of the rooms of the house. It's pretty funny how they shed out sometimes, I swear they wrap their tail around a board and just jump head first out of their skins somehow, I have seen several of the sheds hanging upside down from their tails from 6-9 feet up in the air...

 

[Kusanar]

Was it this snake by chance........
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I think you mean this one:

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Black rats were unseen locally for years but I think they are doing better now, I saw several basking on the shoulders of roads last summer. Saw a big one still writhing that someone hit. No idea why anyone would kill a rat eating machine like that.

If they went in my stalls they wouldn't last, daughters gelding kills everything. No idea why.

 

[Hopperkiller]

One of my cats caught a baby garter snake and brought him in the house.... Poor little thing was about as thick as a pencil and he was MAD! I got him from the cat and started taking him outside and he bit me too! Lol, little guy was so small that he unhinged his jaw to get his mouth around my finger!
Now, I caught a 6 foot black snake at the barn with 1 hand while holding a horse with the other. As I didn't have both hands available, I got bit. It was interesting, I only saw it strike once, felt it hit 2 times, and there were 3 sets of teeth marks in my hand! Can we say FAST?? They have tiny little teeth and really, it wasn't any worse than being attacked by particularly good Velcro, barely bled, itched like crazy for a few days though...

I was a work study student caring for eastern and western diamondbacks and catching copperheads. I have caught hundreds of non poisionous snakes. All snakes can bite just some dont. Be careful of infections caused by tiny teeth. I even found a clutch of eggs under a hay bale. 9 0f the 11 eventually hatched. Baby great western rat snakes or chicken snakes to others. Turned them loose at a wooded creek down the road. My wife gets upset when i dont kill these snakes or the bullsnakes that come on my place. But there are numerous grainfields in my area with rats galore.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Easy here where they are very very rarely poisonous to live and let live.

 

[cavemanrich]

That's more my style! Once, when my kids were little, there was a big ol' garter snake hanging out in my neighbor's ditch. So, I decided to catch him so the kids could see him up close, and to show them that snakes were not to be feared. Well, I chased him around a bit before I pinned his head, and caught him, I brought him up out of the ditch, and showed him to the kids, let them pat him, admire the irridescence of the sun gleaming off his scales. Then, the wiggly thing got enough extra length free from the front end, and he BIT ME! They don't have teeth, but they have raspy sharp jaws. He drew blood, and that hand was sore and irritated for about 2 weeks!!!

When We first moved to our home, the yard was overgrown. There were Garter snakes GALORE. I relocated those that I caught to area around Railroad tracks where the grounds/fields were well overgrown. Not adjacent to other peoples yards BTW. Caveman does not kill anything. (flies and mosquitoes excluded) Anything longer than 12 inches I used gloves. DS when he was small did the same as dad. Had no gloves when he got one not much bigger than 12 inch. Got bit. To this day he dislikes snakes, but does not hurt them. Just avoids them.

One of my cats caught a baby garter snake and brought him in the house.... Poor little thing was about as thick as a pencil and he was MAD! I got him from the cat and started taking him outside and he bit me too! Lol, little guy was so small that he unhinged his jaw to get his mouth around my finger!
Now, I caught a 6 foot black snake at the barn with 1 hand while holding a horse with the other. As I didn't have both hands available, I got bit. It was interesting, I only saw it strike once, felt it hit 2 times, and there were 3 sets of teeth marks in my hand! Can we say FAST?? They have tiny little teeth and really, it wasn't any worse than being attacked by particularly good Velcro, barely bled, itched like crazy for a few days though...

The pencil size ones never tried to bite me as can be seen in pix. All others I used gloves. I know that if you catch them properly they are not able to reach and bite. My main goal was to catch before it got away. No time be able to catch behind the head always. I never got bit. The largest Garter snake I ever saw (not by the house) was the size of a broom stick in length and thickness. I never seen one that large and never thought that they can reach that size.

I think you mean this one:

This one looks like it is digesting a medium size animal of some sort. Is looking for a comfortable spot to rest the next 2 weeks.

 

[Kusanar]

This one looks like it is digesting a medium size animal of some sort. Is looking for a comfortable spot to rest the next 2 weeks.

Yeah, he was going under the fence when he got shocked, turned around and struck at the thing that hurt it, and got the wires in his mouth... that's all she wrote for him, he was found in the morning.

 

[lazy gardener]

That ain't no garter snake! WOW! Wow! I've had teeny tiny little just born garters try to bite me. They can be nastier than their full sized parents. Did you know that Garter snakes are live bearers? They can birth up to 50 babies at a time. Before chickens, I would find a tangle of adults laying in my flower beds. They'd look like a pile of spaghetti. I'm sure they were having a snake orgy. Little ones would crawl up inside the corrugations or J trim on our metal shop, or inside the vinyl siding on the house. I'd get a creepy crawling feeling that I was being watched, and turn around to see 2 or 3 little sets of beady eyes staring out at me. Not as many snakes here now. I actually miss them.