Found Snake....Help can't identify.

[ultimate1019]

I found this snake and I have no clue what it is, Could someone help me out??

 

[Bring]

Just wondering why you killed it. Snakes keep rats and other preditors away. Unless it has a rattle or a diamond shaped head it most likely isn't poisonous.

 

[possumqueen]

The pattern looks like a copperhead, but the body is awfully thin. Copperheads and rattlers are usually thicker looking.

 

[ranchhand]

I don't know where you are and that makes it much harder to narrow it down.

I live in South Carolina, and there is a website for snake pictures of SC. Try googling snake pics in your state.

We don't kill non-venomous snakes here either. Now, venomous? Dead. I had a dog bitten by a copperhead earlier this year, we killed it and vac-packed it for the vet!

 

[ladycrotalus]

Juvenile black rat snake

harmless


Edit: It looks nothing like a juvenile copperhead.

Juvenile copperhead

 

[ranchhand]

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I agree. I googled copperhead pics, and it looks to be a juvenile American Copperhead. Be VERY careful with killing and disposing of those devils, the head stays reflexively active for quite a while.

Good job you did kill it.


ETA, It DOES closely resemble the rat snake juvenile, but my bet is still on copperhead because of the pattern differences.

 

[anngili]

Well, good for controlling rodents but they will eat eggs if given the chance, at least the large ones will. I found that out when I tried to grab an egg at the back of a friend's coop; it was just being eaten by a rat snake. He got relocated but came back 3 more times so he's dead now. She usually likes them around, just not when they've decided to eat eggs instead of rodents!

 

[ranchhand]

Hmmm. I have several yellow rat snakes stealing eggs- I just have to get there first!


I used to hang out in Cedar Creek!

 

[BooneHillbilly]

Colubrid family no worries

 

[georgialee]

looks like a rat snake to me!