Look what we found under the duck house today...

[micaheart]

Holy smokes, you guys are scaring the %*^&%( out of me. I live in Northwest Washington...we don't have any problems with snakes like that. I think I'd be scared to step outside! We just have the run of the mill raccoons, hawks, owls, coyotes.... Good luck.

 

[MysticalMom]

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Yay!! A neighbor!! I'm in Great Mills slackwater. On the old Great Mills Christmas Tree farm. Where are you? And I have muscovies, black swedish, rouens, silver appleyards and 1 appleyard/khaki cross thats a menace!

What do you have?

No snakes under there this morning... I made the DH get down on his hands and knees and look.

I'm sure they'll be back so I'll just have to keep him looking every morning.

 

[MysticalMom]

Wow. I didn't even know there was a Predators and Pests forum until you moved my post.

Sorry 'bout that.

 

[nettie]

I've heard of people drilling a small hole into duck eggs and draining/suckling out the whites/yolks. Then they fill them with salt and leave them where a snake could find it. The snake eats it and then dies. Not sure how humane that is, but from what I hear it gets the job done.

 

[DMFarm]

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Amazing pic! But cottonmouths are venomous, no such thing as a poisonous snake

venom = injected into the blood stream.
poison = ingested and/or absorbed through linings such as the skin or gut.

Happycheese I don't know what school you went to but venom is poison so a cottonmouth is a poisonous snake

 

[drumstick diva]

Buttercup Chillin, oh I wanna see the pictures of your ducks at night from your camera. I bet we all do.

 

[MysticalMom]

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I do!

 

[ChickenFarmerIStillLoveU]

I'd be moving.

 

[rancher hicks]

I saw all my girls in a huddle around something and when I went to check it was a snake. In the run! Not any where's that big. Just a little thing by comparision. I went to get the rake to move it but it took off. I had one once rear it's ugly head at me and I took the rake and threw it into the road. Not sure it made it to the other side but I didn't care. Try to bite me and you die!

If I saw a snake that big I'd be screamming and running.