Killed Corn Snake**GRAPHIC**

[dlfridie]

Look at this Corn Snake I killed near an old pool pump.
I was pulling up a gigantic dandelion when I saw it's tail move. I ran and got a shovel and killed it. I have never killed a snake this big before... totally gross. I fed it to the chickens.
Normally, when I pull dandelions I am careful to look around.
DH cut the grass there yesterday, that's why I thought there wouldn't be anything lurking there.
Corn snakes are not so fearful of humans and do come out in the daylight. Now I know.

 

[speckledhen]

You know that if that is a corn snake, it's not poisonous, right?

 

[Bettacreek]

How big was it? It still looks fairly young, but pics can be deceiving. While I totally disagree with killing snakes for "no reason", I have to say, at least you didn't just throw it away, the chickens at least made use of it.

 

[CityClucks]

Those are great for keeping the rat and mouse population down. Of course, they'd probably like a baby chick, too if you have them running around. That is a snake I would have relocated, but I understand many people don't like snakes no matter what kind.

 

[poultryfan73]

I dont see why you would want to harm a non venimous snake.. But at least the chickens had a good meal!

 

[CoopCrazy]

Honestly I think for some folks its a knee jerk reaction.. i dont kill any snakes unless they are trying to get my girls but I know many people that just immediatly kill them .. Either way its done now and atleast the girls got a treat...

 

[Cuban Longtails]

Poor corn snake (if that's what it really was).

 

[Bettacreek]

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For some reason when I read this, I read it as "popcorn snake". The knee-jerk reaction is actually understandable for me. If I see an ant, I flip a nut and kill it. I'm sure that most are fairly well harmless to me. I just remember catching lizards in Alabama and ended in an ant's nest and was bitten pretty good, and my foot got very swollen (to the point that I couldn't put shoes on to go to the stores. I'm "partially allergic" to ants, they weren't fire ants or anything. Anyways, moral of the story, I have my own personal reasoning behind despising ants. I'm sure people who hate snakes have their reasons, just as anyone who has any fears or hates something probably has a very good reason in their minds.

 

[dlfridie]

I didn't know what kind of snake it was (nor did I care), when I killed it.
It's the same as the photos of Corn Snakes on the identification sites for my area.
At almost 3 ft. long (it's constricted quite a bit in the pics.),
it can still inflict a bite.
I understand their place in the ecosystem. I don't hate them, I just don't care to have them in my yard.
I'm not a "snake hunter", but if they get too close to my house or me, I'm not taking any chances.


I fed it the hens, but when I went out there tonight they hadn't touched it.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

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I am in total agreement with you. I am scared to death of snakes, even the green ones. I wish I weren't, but I am. I don't mind seeing them in the woods, but in my yard and chicken house is another story. I would have killed it as well.