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

[ticks]

Well, I killed snake today too. A little garder sanke, maybe 2 feet. They are harmless but I have little chicks and it gave me the heeby jeebys. I don't care what people say about "not killing the snake that does no harm." Snakes scare me, always have since a little kid. To see one in MY chicken coop just forced me to kill it. I'm not damaging the population, we have plenty of them.

 

[quiltnchik]

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Please don't kill garter snakes; they are ABSOLUTELY HARMLESS! They eat bugs, worms, small frogs, etc., but did not pose a threat to your chicks. We have them in our yard all the time and enjoy watching them as they go out into the sun to get warm and then back into the shade to cool off. They're amazing creatures!

 

[deerman]

I for one, do NOT kill snakes, they do more good than harm.

 

[texaschickmama]

We have killed 2 copperheads here this year. I almost stepped on one in the well house a week ago. It totally freaked me out and I have to mention that I totally acted like a girl about it!!

Poisonous snakes will be killed here, sorry, I have two little kids and lots of animals that depend on me to keep them safe.

 

[clhbubba]

I didn't either until this last week when we caught two in seperate evenings, one attacking my bantam that was on eggs and one attacking my muscovy hen on eggs. They were striking the hens trying to get them off the eggs. I killed them and have no regrets. I used to take them to the back of the property(even poisonous ones), no more. I wouldn't kill a small, non poisonous snake though, no threat to my animals, eggs, etc.

 

[crtrlovr]

I never kill snakes if at ALL avoidable unless I know for certain it is poisonous and is in the immediate vicinity of my pets (cats & chickens). This has only happened one time in the 26 years we've lived here. We've seen snakes like king, garter, grass, etc. but we have mostly meadow around us so we rarely see any of the poisonous types. Snakes are very beneficial and it saddens me when I see someone deliberately run over a snake by the roadside or trying to cross the road. I've stopped in the road and blocked traffic to give a snake the opportunity to cross in safety. I don't believe in killing ANYTHING for the sake of killing with the following exceptions: flies, ticks, and mosquitoes...

Our swimming pool is full of frogs right now, and DH is MAJORLY ticked at me b/c I took the chlorine tabs out of the skimmer basket to give the frogs a few more days to mature and give me a chance to dip them out with the net and put them into a large tub of water so they can finish growing.

He says I have only another day or two, then the tabs are going back in. Grow, babies, grow!!!

 

[deerman]

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Maybe ask around maybe a wildlife park or something? Like we have the Great Plains Nature Center that takes animals as long as they are native.

I wasn't about to try to catch that thing and give it to somebody else.

Sure could have been put to good uses, they do milk them.

Understand not catching it, but I have caught many snakes,(even copperheads) and yes they can be relocated. I know many farmers that would be glad to have them. non-venomious ones that is.

Warning be sure you know your snakes, before trying to catch any.

Not getting on your case about killing one... I caught two 6 feet black snake that were mating.(by hand) took them to a farmers barn he was glad to have them. there a reason they are called RAT snakes.

 

[sillybirds]

Copperheads sure are pretty snakes, but then again so are the rattlers we have here. I hate to kill them, but if they're on my back patio, like the rattler we killed this afternoon, they gotta go. I'd love to have more nonvenomous snakes to keep the mice/rats down, but all we seem to have are rattlers!

 

[deerman]

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Understand completely.

 

[Emzyyy]

My dogs found a big King for me one time and at the time I didn't know what it was and had no internet available to we took it to a local petstore to ask and afterwards we went to Wal-Mart and I didn't want to leave the poor thing in the car because it was so hott so I wrapped him around my wrist and walked in I guess they thought it was a gaudy bracelett even when I handed money to the cashier.