Snakes!.... *graphic*

[Hoosierchickens]

There are two varieties of copperhead in the US- the Northern and the Southern. They still look very similar. The Southern is typically lighter in color with a reddish and tan pattern while the Northern is typically darker with a more gray and brown pattern. Both are sort of similar to the ball python pattern except that they are shades of green and black.

 

[LindsayB]

I had no idea there were 2 different types of copperhead...learn something everyday!

 

[bambi]

LindseyB, I to like snakes and feel they serve a important role. We found a copperhead in our back yard and we didn't want to kill it so my DH gathered it up and took it down the road about 1/2 a mile and we thought problem solved but 3 days later s/he was back at the same place so DH gathered it up agan and took it further away this time and few days later it was back sad to say we had to kill it couldn't take a chance someone getting bit. I never relized that they would know how to find its way back.

 

[iluvsedward]

Copperhead

 

[Chainsaw385]

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Same here ........


Once I saw the tail of a snake in my garage. I only got a good look at the last 1/4 of the snake and had to look at pictures because it kinda looked "copperheadish" I did not know if a cooperhead kept the big hour glass pattern down by the tail or not.

I was able to rule out it being a copperhead but it took another sighting of the whole snake until I was able to determine it was a corn snake.


It is welcome in my garage anytime

 

[Balbinka]

Yup, "snake season" is starting over here.
I don't mind the non-venomous ones... but in my area, we also have rattlesnakes.

I am not a fan of the rattlesnakes over here, as some of them do not rattle before they strike.

 

[7L Farm]

I'm not mad at snakes.But they better stay out of my coop. I get angry when they eat my eggs.

 

[lindamarie]

Oh, but they can have everything to do with chickens, I hate snakes, one reason is that they will get into a pen and eat the young chicks, also some are known to eat eggs, it's horrible to see a mom have to watch her baby chick being eaten by a snake and can't do anything about it, I did, killed him, too late for baby chick. The snake couldn't get out of the pen because it was full of chick....

 

[Mofarmgirl]

I'm not even gonna lie...I loathe the things! Even hate looking at pics of them lol. I wont kill a grass snake but anything like a copperhead is history. I think they're some of the meanest critters out there. A very large venomous snake (cotton mouth we believe) bit my youngest soon when he was just over a year old. The hospital said they believed it had just bitten something beforehand and didn't have much venom which is why he came through it so well. Hate 'em.. they have no place in the yard!

 

[cazyaniamllover]

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we get those all the time if seen they are dead because it is a king snake or a cotton mouth but a dog got bit and i think she died but they just to many cats and dogs for one to live...plus the vets see us alot because of just the cats fights