The Middle Tennessee Thread

[DMRippy]

Quote: WAS is the key word.....I will add this is the most common snake
in Tennessee.

 

[Wasson6Pack]

WAS is the key word.....I will add this is the most common snake
in Tennessee.

Most common seriously? What did I get myself into? I don't mind snakes as much as spiders, but back in Iowa we just had corn. You could get lost in a corn field!

 

[grdnlvr]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/newestpost/862236 Clarksville,TN Chicken Ordinance. If anyone is interested in knowing the new ordinance allowing chickens in the city limits, here it is.

 

[RedPulletMama]

Woke up this morning, day 20, to 5 baby chickens hatching! 4 are fully out, waiting on #5 and the other 15 to start pipping. Not going to slep at all!!

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: I said it was the most common BITE and I didn't say it was common to die from it.

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/root/vumc.php?site=poisoncenter&doc=10247

This might make you feel better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_snake_bites_in_the_United_States

You want to see the Rattler he ran over in the same area of his driveway????

HUM can't find it.... let me try my phone.

 

[DMRippy]

Found them



Hearty little bugger..... even after being run over several times he was still able to open his mouth! He had 7 rattles. Finally we had to cut its head off.... odd feeling driving with a RATTLER HEAD in a cup in my car.....

 

[Wasson6Pack]

Oh that's just not right.

Did you have extra Guinea eggs for me for tomorrow? Tell me how much you want for them if so, if not, no big deal, I'll get some from you when you have them, just put me on your list.

 

[kwissykat]

How big do the copperhead s get? How do I know if it is a baby or not.

 

[DMRippy]

Oh that's just not right.

Did you have extra Guinea eggs for me for tomorrow? Tell me how much you want for them if so, if not, no big deal, I'll get some from you when you have them, just put me on your list.

I am not going tomorrow! Sorry. I will be going to franklin in a couple of weeks. I don't have any now anyway. I set 4 doz and have another doz sold. I did find 5 today.... hoping they will keep laying where I can find them. I need to keep me a few too.... I have lost 2 guinea in a week or so. One was gutted no idea really what did that. Found feathers today.... think maybe the dog got it. Hubby let the dog loose by mistake.... dang it. So I gave 5 grown ones away to be eaten.... 2 killed each other in a fight and now 2 more. But I can't just keep a few ..... need to add some out back I think. We will find a way to house them somehow LOL.

 

[DMRippy]

How big do the copperhead s get? How do I know if it is a baby or not.

Babies are the WORST. They can't control their venom. We had a little copper head in the water cut off at the farm.... little thing too. I don't remember what we did with that. Not sure we would have taken a chance with him and our hands in the same place. I also had a close call when I was pregnant. We had beavers (yes we have those too) building a dam in our part of the creek and we were clearing it out. I reached in pulled the debris out and before I could toss it my 26 year old son yelled "SNAKES" 2 little copperheads were swimming away from the area I just pulled the debris from..... YIKES

Copperheads and Cottonmouths are related both tend to like water areas..... not that you will not find copperheads other places. That copperhead was about 1700 feet from the creek. He was well hidden in the litter of the leaves on the ground.

We have LOTS and LOTS of woods around all the houses in the area. Most of the properties have over 30 acres we have 68 and only 12 or so are clear. so we have lots and lots of wild life and snakes are expected..... we just don't like the deadly ones.