Hubby killed a snake yesterday!! What kind was it? pic added

[fancbrd4me02]

You never know how much help controlling rodents you are getting from snakes. It's never good to eliminate natural predators from an enviorment. Look what happend with the rabbits in australia. I can tell you that we do not have a rodent problem at our place. We have barn owls, and we welcome snakes into our yard. It may help you to know that annually, poisonous snakes kill only 1-5 people on average. That is a very slight risk. Think of how much more likely you are to be killed by honeybees, cars, other people, illness. The flu is more dangerous!

 

[shay20]

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those are great pics of them, thank you so much, this one does not look like those at all, this ones has more brown markings on it.

 

[shay20]

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sooo true, but with my luck i would be the one to get bit by a stupid snake.

as long as it is a milk snake, then maybe i will leave things be, but oh man i am going to freak when i see another one, tehy just creep me out so bad.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

I'm no expert on eastern snakes, but the snake your hubby killed looks too thin for it's length to be a pit viper. Generally, pit vipers get to be quite thick and wedge shaped (narrow at the line of the back, fat and broad at the belly) as they mature. How long was the snake your hubby killed? It looks pretty long in the picture, but pictures are hard to tell scale.

 

[dieselgrl48]

Here's s good website on copperheads.Even being raised in the mountain's of Va. I had to double check myself on a lot of snake's here being an Avid animal lover but when I looked up the tail's 4 of the one's that we found here have the yellow or greeny sulpher color tails including the one in my pic.You can't see it cause was almost dark and one of my cats left in front of my front door one eve at dusk while I was closing up birds. anyway here's the link


http://copperhead-snake.com/

 

[OccamsTazer]

Don't worry, that's not the usual banding for a copperhead.
They're pretty distinctive.
Gray rat snake or darker corn snake

 

[shay20]

yea it was about 3 feet long.
looking at all the pics every one is posting up, i saw what you are talking about, the whole body is like a triangle type, this one was rounded.

 

[Leasa79]

I agree with above, most snakes, in our area, are more help than not. I live right off 113, and my neighbor has close to 200 different breed, size color, ext, and the only thing he has lost bird to are the coyotes. I keep the coop closed at night, after they bed down themselves, then open at between 5:30/6:30 am, and they free range across the neighborhood. My neighbors feed them for fun, and to get them to eat the bugs out of their gardens. Find a happy balance, if you haven't had snakes in the coop, just keep watch. Hopefully we will get some better weather here soon.
Liz

 

[JCoogle]

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I do not think it is a copperhead. Copperheads have hour glass shapes and there is a kind of water snake areound here that looks like them but the stripes are fat in the middle instead af thinning down. Any chance you were close to a creek or pond?

 

[shay20]

ok i am really convince it was a milk snake and not a cooperhead.

now becouse of it just being a snake, if i see another one should i just let it be, will it hurt my little serama and oegb birds?
and it will take eggs right?