I know how you feel.
Early last year I was gathering eggs. I slid my hand under a big Buff Cochin hen that was on a nest. Her leg felt swollen. The scales were very prominant and the leg was over an inch thick. I pushed up, lifting the hen sideways to check her leg.
Something was tickling my hand.
About that time everything became clear.
I had my hand wrapped around a Black Rat Snake. It was looking at my hand and tickling me with it's TONGUE!!!
Needless to say, I LET GO and jerked my hand out from under the hen. I ran for a hoe alot faster then someone my size normally could. When I got back to the hen house I jerked the hen straight up off the nest and ran the snake out. I did kill it. Any snake that takes eggs or chicks is a goner. That one was 64" long.
Before that I have never had a fear of snakes, but now I have an aversion to them.
Matt
Early last year I was gathering eggs. I slid my hand under a big Buff Cochin hen that was on a nest. Her leg felt swollen. The scales were very prominant and the leg was over an inch thick. I pushed up, lifting the hen sideways to check her leg.
Something was tickling my hand.

About that time everything became clear.

I had my hand wrapped around a Black Rat Snake. It was looking at my hand and tickling me with it's TONGUE!!!
Needless to say, I LET GO and jerked my hand out from under the hen. I ran for a hoe alot faster then someone my size normally could. When I got back to the hen house I jerked the hen straight up off the nest and ran the snake out. I did kill it. Any snake that takes eggs or chicks is a goner. That one was 64" long.
Before that I have never had a fear of snakes, but now I have an aversion to them.
Matt
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