Help identifying snake ... does he need to go?

[rizq]

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You have to load them onto photobucket or some equivalent (I think BYC has a photo uploader, but I have never used it) then use the img code and link.

 

[Punk-Rock_Chicken]

AH HAH!! Black Rat Snake!!
http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/jd/jdweb/Herps/species/USsnakes/elaobsobs15.jpg

 

[countrypreacher]

that is a weird one.....I dont think that it is a king snake. I have plenty of them around here. King Snakes have white belly's.....did it whip its tail when it was mad? Like a whipping sound? If so I have always know them as a whip snake or more known as a chicken snake around here. Not a good snake to have around.....they will eat your biddies and eggs...

 

[ivan3]

Punk_Rock_Chicken wrote: they will act very aggressive and flatten their heads to a triangular shap

A juvenile Great Plains Ratter, doing just that (didn't like me planting Bald Cypress below the berm of the pond last week).

They only look scary, they're not:

Terri, they do love them trees... (slithering advertisements for hardware cloth)

 

[rizq]

PRC - If he were more yellow and had the stripes, that would be him. Can rat snakes be striped? They were a thought too, but the patterns on the king snakes seemed to fit better. I know they both get pretty big!

Maybe he is a cross between a rat and a king like luvmychicknkids suggested ... a king rat snake

Country Preacher - he does not seem to quite fit any mould, lol. I do not recall him lashing his tail and I do not think he looked like a chicken (or coachwhip) snake. When he saw the stick coming he coiled up like a rattler (he has NO rattle, he is not a rattler) and struck out and bit the stick several times. I looked closely at his tail though looking for rattle (even though he is the wrong color ... you just never know) and am pretty sure he did not whip and he was DEFINITELY mad, lol.

When I found him he was right up against the chicken pen (on the outside). I hope he did not have evil intentions toward my chickens with so many rats to eat!

 

[crtrlovr]

why, oh why do I read these posts JUST before going to bed? ...

 

[Chicken Rustler]

FYI Here is an excellent site to ID most any critter and it will tell ya what is in yer area.
Now I am far from a snake person but have been told by those in the know that one rule of thumb is. Red to yellow can kill a fellow, red to black a friend of Jack. This of course is for red yellow and black stripped snakes. My theroy since I don't know, there aint no safe snake so kill em all.

ETA OOOp's silly me I fergot to put the name of the site. It is enature.com

 

[rizq]

I do not like snakes in trees! I am just sure that it is going to drop on my head!

Here is a timber rattler we decided to pick on during a hike. Glad he is not living right outside my chicken coop, lol.

 

[rizq]

Here he is again ... friendly looking sucker, ain't he?

 

[ivan3]

Nice shots! But not all `herpehorrors' should rattle folks:

Smooth Green Tree snake in the Lavender Hyssop (think of the snakes as itenerant ornamentals).

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