identify?

[squirtsmomma]

found this guy/girl in my chicken yard this morning. Not good with snakes. Any idea what kind? I have managed to catch it and put it in a big bucket for my husband to deal with later. It's small, I looked for more or a nest or egg shells but didn't find any. Just wondering what I had in there.

 

[Geena]

It's a baby corn or rat snake. Just take it to a field, woods or park and let it go.

 

[neo71665]

X2 corn snake. They are generally pretty calm. I'd haul it far away your coop and drop it off.

 

[squirtsmomma]

X2 corn snake. They are generally pretty calm. I'd haul it far away your coop and drop it off.

Thank you. I know nothing about this type, just bull snakes and rat snakes which here would be brown or black. This just freaked me out this morning.

 

[squirtsmomma]

It's a baby corn or rat snake. Just take it to a field, woods or park and let it go.

It's a baby corn or rat snake. Just take it to a field, woods or park and let it go.

Thanks geena. I'm a snake dunce so I wasn't sure. We have a huge cattle field next door, prob came out of there. My husband will let him go.

 

[neo71665]

Yeah we got the same rat snakes. Here they are normally black, with red all over when I see it.

 

[cmom]

We have similar rat snakes here. This is a rat snake outside my garage door. I have other pictures somewhere of more with the marking a bit different.

 

[neo71665]

We have similar rat snakes here. This is a rat snake outside my garage door. I have other pictures somewhere of more with the marking a bit different.

Thats a corn snake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_snake

Rat snake is different
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_snake

Unless in texas where they have their own rat snake breed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_rat_snake

 

[Blue Raptor]

found this guy/girl in my chicken yard this morning. Not good with snakes. Any idea what kind? I have managed to catch it and put it in a big bucket for my husband to deal with later. It's small, I looked for more or a nest or egg shells but didn't find any. Just wondering what I had in there.

Rat snake. Let it go, it will eat pesky mice, but I promise it won’t hurt your chickens.

 

[Blue Raptor]

X2 corn snake. They are generally pretty calm. I'd haul it far away your coop and drop it off.

I’m sure it’s a rat snake, I caught one in a mouse cage and researched it.