SNAKE!!!(now a dead snake) Snake lovers, don't look.

[PeepsInc]

You dont know how many snakes are there,untill you build a snake trap!

 

[halo]

This is the first year Ive tried MY BEST to live and let live. Ive seen 3 snakes, a small red rat under a bale of hay, a teeny garter, probably, that got into my sparrow trap, ate a sparrow, and then couldnt get out, and a long skinny racer in my barn. All lived to fight another day. But they were small and unassuming. If I found something BIG or poisonous, I have to find some of that netting. yeeeeeeh, thats a creepy photo.

 

[MaggieRae]

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I certainly agree!

 

[Chickens in Elmwood]

Ok, shamefully, if I see a snake, my first reaction is to throw something heavy at it. My mind does not say, "Oh, well, that is a so-and-so snake and is completely harmless." My mind says, "AHHHAAHAHHHHAAHHH! SNAKE!!!!! Throw something at it!"

We have harmless garters, and black snakes that are not poinsonous, but still could easily eat chicks, copperheads and water moccasins (you might call them cottonmouths." Pretty much any snake I see is dead meat because of my kids. Sorry.

That said, I generally leave the garters and black snakes alone, but the blacks get BIG here. Once when my dear husband was mowing, he interrupted a black snake eating a big nasty creek rat. Did the snake lose his lunch and run away? Nope, it raised up and tried to strike my husband with the rat still in its mouth. Yup, a snake beat my husband's leg with a dying rat. That's life in West Virginia.

I'm liking the snake trap...wondering who I would get to empty it. Hmmm....

 

[lavacaw]

Timber Rattlers are an endangered/protected species in Texas and you can be fined for killing them. Would be careful how I posted this info.
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Exactly! Last year I killed a timber rattler on my back porch... it was 4 feet 10 inches long. Not the kind of thing you want to find when you step out the back door.

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com

 

[chseeads]

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That picture is enough to incite the heebyjeebies in anybody...lol

 

[toredano]

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Looks like a salad I had once in Korea at a restaurant...



Thats alot of snake... yuck

 

[lone cedar farm]

Copperheads are an endangerd species here at Lone Cedar Farm...havent killed one in a couple years!

 

[swheat]

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I stepped on a copperhead day before yesterday. It was about 14 inches long. It was getting dark when I finished with the birds and working my way back to the house. I felt my shoe roll/slip funny feeling but I knew what it was...sure enough I looked back and I could barely make out that it was a copperhead. I thank god it didn't bite me...but still puzzled that it didn't.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

I'm sure everyone is aware that there is a big difference between people going wherever and shooting at whatever they find, and someone who kills a predator on THEIR OWN property. Please don't make it seem like they are the same. They're not.
If my husband came in and said "Hey, I just saw a copperhead! I watched it slither away." I'd send his sorry butt back out there to do what has to be done. My "precious chickens" and my children deserve to be able to stay ALIVE while on MY property. But if you put a higher price tag on a copperhead than on my child, well I just invite you to tell my 5-year-old daughter that.