Rat Snake ate Ceramic Egg!

[RollTideChicken]

Oh yea not knocking the scout at all. And yes even nonvenomous snakes can cause an infected wound if they bite you. Notice in my pics I was wearing gloves as well. I'm sure he knew what he was doing.

 

[RollTideChicken]

Well... I got another golf ball gone today!

 

[trudyg]

I'm in the Green. By all means, keep your snakes! I kill them and hang them on the fence, soon enough after dark our owl comes and gets it.

 

[Ms Lee]

Oldish thread, but that's what came up in my google search...
I found something bizarre today:
A long while back (2-3 years maybe) my daughter bought me a couple ceramic eggs to leave in the nest to encourage/teach my hens where to lay. After a bit one of them disappeared, and another was broken, so months later I bought two more. One of those also disappeared. Today I went in the greenhouse (didn't use it last year, haven't opened the door in months) and found two of my fake eggs. The greenhouse has a regular door, so my dog couldn't have carried them in there. Nothing but a human could have opened the door and put them there ... or maybe a snake could have swallowed them, and regurgitated in the greenhouse? You think so??? There was no snake skeleton, so no evidence that a snake died.

 

[RollTideChicken]

Oldish thread, but that's what came up in my google search...
I found something bizarre today:
A long while back (2-3 years maybe) my daughter bought me a couple ceramic eggs to leave in the nest to encourage/teach my hens where to lay. After a bit one of them disappeared, and another was broken, so months later I bought two more. One of those also disappeared. Today I went in the greenhouse (didn't use it last year, haven't opened the door in months) and found two of my fake eggs. The greenhouse has a regular door, so my dog couldn't have carried them in there. Nothing but a human could have opened the door and put them there ... or maybe a snake could have swallowed them, and regurgitated in the greenhouse? You think so??? There was no snake skeleton, so no evidence that a snake died.

Certainly a plausible conclusion...
I've always been told snakes couldn't regurgitate a golf ball, but that has never sat well with me. I used to keep snakes and have seen many time what they were able to spit back up, so I don't know how a ball would be difficult for them...same goes for a ceramic egg I'd think.

 

[five t guineas]

I found a chicken snake in our duck enclosure yesterday. He had swallowed a ceramic egg. It had been missing for about two weeks. I guess that poor guy was just burrowed and destined for death. I tried to work the egg back up, and when I couldn’t I called our local wildlife rescue. They said to bring him in; that they could sedate him and get the egg back up manually.
We do not kill our non poisonous snakes because they are actually good at getting rodents as well as eating small venomous snakes .... and sometimes fake eggs

 

[2TxDrips]

Had a rat snake swallow a golf ball once...actually considering I've had more than a couple balls go missing I'm guessing we've had a few. But I love reptiles and respect life (to a point) and he was just trying to survive. So, me and one of my boys helped him out...see below. *might be graphic to some...not sure so heads up.

He actually had it as far as his stomach when I caught him. I'd already worked it up this far by the time we thought about getting pics.

OMIGOSH, THIS REALLY WORKED!! 5ft female rat snake was in our chicken hutch & had swallowed a ceramic egg. Followed your instructions & manually "regurgitated" the egg back out. Also took about 10 minutes total same as yours. Set her free under hay pallets. She slithered away fast as she could. Left some real eggs there for her. So glad I found your post...and it's years later at that, 9/2/2021. Thank you thank you thank you RollTideChicken for your great advice!!!! Saved our snake's life. Great vermin control!
PS: Trashed the ceramic eggs

 

[2TxDrips]

OMIGOSH, THIS REALLY WORKED!! 5ft female rat snake was in our chicken hutch & had swallowed a ceramic egg. Followed your instructions & manually "regurgitated" the egg back out. Also took about 10 minutes total same as yours. Set her free under hay pallets. She slithered away fast as she could. Left some real eggs there for her. So glad I found your post...and it's years later at that, 9/2/2021. Thank you thank you thank you RollTideChicken for your great advice!!!! Saved our snake's life. Great vermin control!
PS: Trashed the ceramic eggs

...eggs were gone this morning...

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Snake tastes like chicken. I know people say that, but its more true of snake than it is of, say, frog legs. Be aware that its a long, lean muscle group with little intramuscular fat - like very thin breast meat, particularly down the spine.

Disrobe it, take the strips down the spine, cut to smaller lengths, prepare by braising in a small amount of bar b q sauce. Works great. (an Eagle Scout)

 

[McChooky]

Oh man he's lucky. Hognoses are mildly venomous but rear fanged. They have to chew on you a bit get the venom worked in but yea you have to learn not to react to bites. When a snake is young they bite often and if you jerk back it can hurt them.

I found one of those coiled up between 2 kittens in a cat walk couple yrs ago.The kittens were in the catwalk leads to an outdoor catio .I had to get the snake out the top. Only seen 2 of these in my whole life .Here I had a pond for water plants so I took t down.It attracted hognose as they love to eat frogs.(5 miles apart-30 yrs in between sightings)They weren't the same color .