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[Elbert Garrett]

Elwood, is that a Copperhead?

 

[Greybear23]

Lynn, That's too cool LOL the really funny thing is that that is my trap I took that picture and posted it here last year I might have posted it on another site I really wouldn't care about someone else posting it though, It's a great way to catch snakes that are sneaking around where you don't want them and if it helps someone else to save their birds or eggs then it's all good, I would be curious though about what site you found it on it could be I forgot about the site and I'd like to get another link to it LOL

Bill that is funny, I thought I had seen it before also but I look at so much stuff!!!! It was on the site!

http://homesteadsurvival.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-deal-with-snake-problems-in.html

 

[Kassaundra]

Elbert, I'm not Elwood, but yes it is.

 

[Kassaundra]

Sneaky, sneaky little girls. I thought I wasn't getting enough eggs, I found their "extra" nest today!

 

[artsyrobin]

Wanted to share a pic I got from a Self sustaining site I'm on, I know some of us use these but thought a visual pic would help others here understand how it works so well!!! Lynn




For those whom don't know about this, this is a Minnow trap set with eggs in it to catch snakes, just set them next to a wall inside or outside the chicken house/pen and how you dispose of the snake is your own idea!!! Lynn

could have used that last week...had one come in the house and eat one of my pet starlings..

that starling could speak fluent star wars too.... hauled th snake out of the cage and he spit him out.... had had him 9 years....

then this morning found cindylou the bantam cochin i have been nursing, she seemed recovering, eating, pooping, but didn't make it through the nite...






had everyone but mama silkie and babies outside, but had to move a few inside who can't tolerate the heat....

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

Elwood, is that a Copperhead?

It is indeed, I've caught a bunch of copperheads some rat snakes a few bull snakes and a couple prairie rattlers in the minnow traps, the eggs don't attract the copperheads they get in them cause I set them along the wall and they go in and can't get out.

Quote: I don't remember linking my thread on that site but I might have kinda cool knowing that it can be found like that though LOL

It got to 106 here today I about overdid id outside got a little ill feeling and had to slow down for a while but it didn't last long I'm sure ready for this triple digit weather to be behind us,

I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend

 

[NanaKat]

Babysat the grandsons last night so my daughter and SIL could go to a commemorative recognition for those Pistol Pete alumni from OSU.
When I got home, hubby and I did some outside work mowinbg and moving a pile of debris from taking down the chimneys after the earthquakes.
Got really hot and spent the rest of the day in the house.

Here is a picture I took at the kids house of a hatchling snake. It was only 5 inche long but you can see the triangular head and it went into strike position really quickly. Don't know wht kind it is.Their home is in a new housing area in Edmond that was all woods....so they do have copperheads and scorpions, etc.

SIL has been a hunting guide in his earlier years. If you sihine a UV light on a scorpion at night it will glow bright green...he has been hunting and killing those in their yard.

 

[Oakieridge]

WOW Nana that snake is tiny, looks like one hubby and the boys killed on our back patio last year. I never knew about the UV light and scorpions. We found our first one in the house this last week. I was sitting at the desk and it scurried out from under it. Our issue is mice, we can't seem to keep them out of the house this summer. We have tried everything and no resorting to sticky traps from the feed store. Not the most humane way to get rid of them but we have tried all the other traps and I can't put out poison due to the kids, birds, cats, dogs, well the zoo we call family, lol.

I did absolutely nothing today, we did go to church but that was it. We even stopped and got pizza for lunch so I just came home and took a nap. The boys took care of birds for me today. Tomorrow no such luck I have to get temp yards taken down off two pens and moved. Then move some birds around. Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit cooler.

 

[Ksane]

Oh Robin, I'm so sorry about CindyLou! I've been hearing about her since I joined this board, that makes me so sad. Feels like I lost one of my own :-(

 

[Poco Pollo]

Robin - So sorry to hear Cindylou passed away. She sure was pretty.

Elwood - I've got a minnow trap against the east side of the barn. I bought my trap last year after reading your post. I've caught a lot of black snakes in it.

I hope it's not too hot tomorrow. I wanted to work in the yard today, but the heat drove me back inside.