Snake

[Lovable Chicks]

I have lived in this home for 12 1/2 years and today we found a fairly big snake right by my silkie coop. I have never seen a snake this close or this big since living here. We seen this snake last week in the creek behind our house so I think he was thinking of a chicken dinner... We just had to tell him different. I don't know snakes but a friend said it was a water moccasin???

 

[Firefighter Chick]

pic?

 

[Cetawin]

Wow no one was bitten....lucky if it was a moccasin they are extremely aggressive. They are dark dirty brown and appear black with pattern markings...they loosely coil and posture with an open mouth and inside cotton white....hence their name. They have a hemotoxin that is bad news.


http://www.wf.net/~snake/moccasin.htm

 

[Lovable Chicks]

Sorry, No picture. Was aggressive as I have ever seen, striking but we had it pinned. It did look like the pictures.

 

[teach1rusl]

Any snake will strike when pinned down, ven. or not. Yeah, a pic. would help. DH's family thinks EVERY snake is a water mocc.

, probably even little grass snakes...lol. And if one is near the water - then it MUST be a water mocc. to them. They are very snake phobic...

 

[Lovable Chicks]

we seen this snake just laying in the water last week. i did not see it before being pinned

 

[colebarnhart]

Anyone ever have any issues with snakes going beyond egg eating and going after your birds?

 

[teach1rusl]

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Wow! How big was that snake in the last picture??? How big was the chicken???

 

[Eggcessive]

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g]https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/85053_img_0268.jpg[/img]g][/img]2 weeks ago I noticed this black snake in my bluebird box eating eggs after terrifying the mother bird. Grabbed the camera, and after these pics it disappeared into the box and wouldn't come out. We normally don't kill black snakes on our farm even though this one was about 50 feet from my coop, but the following week my husband ran over it in the yard with the riding lawnmower just next to the coop containing our 38 2 month old chicks.

 

[7L Farm]

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God, works in mysterious ways.