"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[PrimroseMom1]

I always am setting my DVR to record PBS shows.  I love the no commercial, change of pace shows.  NOVA is one of the ones that I sometimes enjoy, depending on the subject.  This however is VERY disturbing to me!  SPIDER GOATS, REALLY?!!!  YIKES!!!  I had to go find it online and see if I am the only person with this reaction.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june11/nova_01-19.html

Speechless. (a rarity)

 

[PrimroseMom1]

https://www.google.com/search?q=bla...m52AXtrYDgDA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=623

It is a black rat snake or in other words around here anything that eats chicken eggs and/or biddies is a "chicken snake" thats a big mamma one more than likely. I killed one in the garage the other night over 6 ft long and had been eating my setting hens eggs and some new borns too. I fixed its wagon right quick and fast and in a hurry.

Jeff

My question is: I thought poisonous snakes had that pointy diamond shaped head. Just wondering about my snake knowledge although I kill and ask later.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Laurie, I forgot to add - when my guineas hatched out keets on their own this summer, I tried to "relocate" some of them across the 10 acre field to my folks' house.

Didn't work.. 15 minutes after I got them set up in a brooder over there, my Mom called & said "come get them. the parents are over here & raising all kinds of sand".  Sure enough, the adults had flown across the field to their babies & were raising cane!

I had to put the babies in a bucket & carry them back across the field to our house, fending off Mama guin & her mates who kept trying to attack me the whole way back!

 

[kuntrygirl]

I always am setting my DVR to record PBS shows.  I love the no commercial, change of pace shows.  NOVA is one of the ones that I sometimes enjoy, depending on the subject.  This however is VERY disturbing to me!  SPIDER GOATS, REALLY?!!!  YIKES!!!  I had to go find it online and see if I am the only person with this reaction.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june11/nova_01-19.html

Speechless. (a rarity)

I'm afraid to watch it.

 

[catdaddyfro]

My question is: I thought poisonous snakes had that pointy diamond shaped head. Just wondering about my snake knowledge although I kill and ask later.

Yes our native vipers in the US have the "v"=VIPERs shaped diamond/pointy heads the only venomous snake we have here with a the rounded head=(Colubrids) is the Coral snake (red and yellow will kill a fellow) The non venomous look alike a member of the king snakes(name eludes me at the moment)Milk snake I believe is "red and black is a friend of Jack"

Jeff

No Terrie no guineas yet gonna get me some and turkeys too one of these daysess

holler if you find a nest full of eggs I'll put them under one of my forever broodies over here and my neighbor will love me even more I'll have to convince him they really are good to have roaming all over the whole place as they are great exterminators LoL he probly still won't go for that too much but hey his cats free range every where they want to still yet "what's good for the goose is good for the gander'' I say, HUH?

 

[foreverlearning]

My question is: I thought poisonous snakes had that pointy diamond shaped head. Just wondering about my snake knowledge although I kill and ask later.

Not all of them do, and not all pointy head snakes are poisonous. Think about FL there people are releasing their exotic snakes and they are cross breeding like our mutt flocks. Not all of them are so cut and dry anymore.

 

[foreverlearning]

I always am setting my DVR to record PBS shows. I love the no commercial, change of pace shows. NOVA is one of the ones that I sometimes enjoy, depending on the subject. This however is VERY disturbing to me! SPIDER GOATS, REALLY?!!! YIKES!!! I had to go find it online and see if I am the only person with this reaction.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june11/nova_01-19.html

ummm...ummm...ummm...go fish?
Still looking for my jaw

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Yes our native vipers in the US have the "v"=VIPERs shaped diamond/pointy heads the only venomous snake we have here with a the rounded head=(Colubrids) is the Coral snake (red and yellow will kill a fellow) The non venomous look alike a member of the king snakes(name eludes me at the moment)Milk snake I believe is "red and black is a friend of Jack"

Jeff

No Terrie no guineas yet gonna get me some and turkeys too one of these daysess

holler if you find a nest full of eggs I'll put them under one of my forever broodies over here and my neighbor will love me even more I'll have to convince him they really are good to have roaming all over the whole place as they are great exterminators LoL he probly still won't go for that too much but hey his cats free range every where they want to still yet "what's good for the goose is good for the gander'' I say, HUH?

I never found her nest this year - & I hunted high & low -- until they hatched. She had it very well hidden at the base of an old dead pecan tree. But you're welcome to some next year if I can find them, or Julie will have some for sure, you know ol' "Fertile Acres" is gonna have a ton of everything w/feathers!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

I'm afraid to watch it.

I didn't watch it either. I read the article under the video. I don't want to have nightmares about goats spinning spider webs.

 

[catdaddyfro]

Not all of them do, and not all pointy head snakes are poisonous. Think about FL there people are releasing their exotic snakes and they are cross breeding like our mutt flocks. Not all of them are so cut and dry anymore.

No its not so much as the black birds mixing with the red birds so to say. Those pythons and boas don't interbreed with the native floras and faunas(even if they did it would result in hybrids/mules and those could not reroduce) and too most of those exotics are eating the alligators so I figure our puny lil ol native stocks are a more interesting meal to eat to them than mating rituals are, reckon? LOL



Terrie I'm gonna get my foot in the door earlier this coming year for an order to Julie maybe it will work out this time and I can get both turkey and guineas(eggs or youngins) all in one whack.
Jeff