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

[Attack Chicken]

I would love to skin that!

 

[deerman]

All snakes in the USA you have to almost step on one to get struck.

Most cant strike ,but a few feet.

I would catch the venomious ones, and take those were they are milked.

Now just to kill a snake because you dont know if it venomious, that just crazy.

We only have 3 type of venomious here in Ohio.

Caught my first copper head when I was 13 yr old.

 

[Debi214]

copperheads will bite whenever they feel threatened - go ahead and grab one once without gloves. i admit you need to learn how to id snakes before you kill one but come on............i don't think anyone should pick one up just to relocate it. and since they are born alive that means if there is one there will be more!

 

[Debi214]

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pretty easy to tell a poisonous snake - just look at the eyes if you are brave enough

 

[WalkingWolf]

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pretty easy to tell a poisonous snake - just look at the eyes if you are brave enough

Or just go ahead and pick it up and get bit, find out real fast if it is venomous the hard way. Does not matter if it is couple feet or 100 ft once it sinks it's fangs in. AND most people DO get bit by stepping on them.

I hope the OP is not wasting the meat though, at least feed it to the chickens.

 

[Judy]

First, cottonmouths and rattlers are much more aggressive than copperheads. I have encountered all, and been chased by a cottonmouth. We have snakes on my property. We also have rats and mice. No problem for the chickens thus far, and some of them are free range, and the yard the rest are in is certainly not snake proof. I have seen a snake within a few feet of the yard. Not saying a snake will never get a chicken or egg, of course.

Second, any snake will bite if you reach for them, step on them, or similar.

Third, yes, it is illegal to kill snakes in Georgia. I don't live far from the annual Rattlesnake Roundup Festival; it's not so long ago they killed them all. Now they collect, milk, and return. If it is illegal to kill them in a state like this, it's probably illegal most everywhere.

Now, I'm not saying I haven't killed the poisonous ones in my yard, or in my house, for that matter. Yes, I've had them in and under (nesting) my house. And I actually don't even have a problem with eating them or making belts out of them. If we took game only for our own use or protection, these conversations would not even occur.

A lot of people around here can't tell a poisonous from a nonpoisonous snake, and firmly believe in killing all of them. (I can tell them apart, and I did not grow up here; we had no poisonous snakes where I grew up, or so I was told.) But anyone who kills any and all snakes just because they see them needs to read up a bit on the rat and mouse problem in Australia. There are worse things than snakes.

I don't know whether relocating a snake is illegal here or not. I don't want to know. They aren't going to come back like coons, etc. do. But I won't have a pet snake, either.

 

[Judy]

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Bush hogging is sort of heavy duty mowing. Done by a bush hog (surprise) pulled behind a tractor. Takes down much heavier stuff than a lawn mower. Used on underbrush, weeds that are like 5' high, etc.

 

[Marie66]

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Bush hogging is sort of heavy duty mowing. Done by a bush hog (surprise) pulled behind a tractor. Takes down much heavier stuff than a lawn mower. Used on underbrush, weeds that are like 5' high, etc.

thanks!!

 

[Marie66]

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Cottonmouths are 10 times more aggressive in the wild...been chased by one across a canal, foot bridge and my yard.

OMG!! I can't imagine being CHASED by a snake!!

I am glad none of the rattle snakes I've found in my yard did that. I find 'em, and then watch them a bit (from a distance) and then give them their space. I loathe rats,so, I have no problems with rattlers.

i didn't know cottonmouths would CHASE me, though!! I heard that they are very cranky and mean. jeeez, i have major heebie jeebies right now!

 

[deerman]

Not that I am a snake lover, but they do very little harm. They do alot more good than harm.

Just because a honey bee sting you when you step on one, no reason to kill all the ones you see.