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

[luvmychicknkids]

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Wow....he is beautiful!!!! My dream is to find a rattlesnake or two BEFORE they find me and take some pics. I just hardly ever see any! Never have my camera when I do.

 

[rizq]

I love the green tree snakes! Their color is so intriguing. I used to play with smooth green snakes (http://www.sdgfp.info/Wildlife/Diversity/Digest Articles/SmGrSn2.jpg) when I was a kid. We called them grass snakes (incorrectly, that is a different snake).

 

[rizq]

We were pretty enamored of the rattler as well! We were very lucky it was a cool day and he was sluggish so he was very cooperative. Though he did get a little cranky when he thought I got too close (still out of strike range! sluggish or not, he could probably strike faster than I could jump) and started to come toward me, but stopped as soon as I backed off a little.

 

[countrypreacher]

when i first got chickens a few years ago I was over run with whip snakes. I lost 10 biddies in 3 days. Ended up killing 9 snakes in a week.....

Guys at the feed store sold me a bag of sulfur and i sprinkled it around the pen and havent seen a snake since. I refresh after a rain or every 4 or 5 days....

 

[Punk-Rock_Chicken]

Moth Balls, or grainules is GREAT at keeping snakes away (and most bugs) we drop a few in every hole or crack we find. I dropped e few into some holes around my mother-in-laws grand-daddy oak that she saw one go into and within a minute or two 6 snakes came HAULIN" out!! Try tha.. maybe he will relocate himself.

 

[NancyDz]

That site someone posted early linked to this site:

http://www.tnherpsociety.org/


They have a link you can report unusual snakes to... maybe they can help you identify it?


Good Luck!


Nancy

 

[estpr13]

Small snakes make great chicken food. See my BYC page.

Grandma had trouble with black snakes eating eggs and if they were in the coop she would kill them and leave them for the chickens to pick at.

Eggs and baby chicks would be your only losses.

 

[Cetawin]

Well it resembles a kingsnake but wrong colors...they will eat eggs and chicks. Good to have around because they eat rattlesnakes and other venom bearing beasts.

On the other hand...viper shaped head...get rid of it just to be safe.

 

[Punk-Rock_Chicken]

I HATE to hear of snakes of any kind being killed. I personally have removed coral snakes, Diamondback Rattlers and a few Cottonmouths from my(and friend's and family's) property and release them somewhere far away. I am an expirienced snake handler though. (hence everyone calling me to remove them) I do understand that occationally some poisonous ones have to be killed. But people should understand that for every snake killed means 1000s on rats and mice and other pest thrive! People that go out of there way or indescrimately kill snakes "Just to be sure" piss me off! IF the snake is posing a threat or is found in the coop with a full belly, than maybe. The snake is just doing what snakes do...eating and protecting themselves. It is sad, snakes have been on this planet for MILLIONS of years before humans. But I personally have noticed a DRASTIC decrease in them. I am the type that will go out and look for them. I have since I was like 9 years old. And I can remember seeing so many more back then. I think PREVENTING them from coming arount in the first place is the intelligent approach. Like I posted earlier, Moth-Balls work great, so does sulfur AND there is many snake repellants sold in stores.(although I have never tried any of them). A snake is CONSTANTLY flicking its tongue ti smell and taste it's environment for food or threats, so repellants work much better on them than on most pests. Just my 2 cents(sense). Not to offend or point fingers. Also there are MANY Critter Removal companies that will come and remove them and release them for a very small fee.(usually around $30 or $40)

Mark

 

[tdgill]

is it a ringed neck racer?