What is this snake ,Please. *mystery solved! :o)*

[HippieChickens]

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To avoid confusion, I feel obliged to mention that you can't see the venom glands on a venomous snake without cutting its head open. Perhaps MTTMaxx meant the head shape, but that's also unreliable.

If all you want to know is whether a snake is venomous or not, learn your local species of venomous snakes. Here in North America, that's rattlesnakes (which never have smooth pointy tails even when they don't have rattles), copperheads (which always have broad hourglass-shaped bands, not blotches), cottonmouths (which have very broad heads with prominent brow ridges and white mouth linings at all ages and hourglass-shaped bands similar to copperheads as youngsters), and coral snakes (red touch yellow, kill a fellow). The adult cottonmouth is the most difficult to identify because here are so many dull-colored nonvenomous water snakes with which they can be confused. These are the only snakes north of Mexico that can cause significant harm to people, though large constrictors such as rat snakes and bull/gopher snakes may present a threat to poultry.

 

[tuffolbird]

I would say Eastern Milksnake. Here is a photo.

 

[redhen]

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edited because i wasnt very nice in my response..

 

[redhen]

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I agree. Those snakes are good to have around unless they start eating your chicks. You should have relocated it

Again...can you read? LOL It was an ACCIDENT kill.

I dont kill harmless snakes..never have! I love to have them around..
Hubby hit this one with a weedwacker on accident..he didnt see it until it was laying in the basement window casement missing a head.

 

[redhen]

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Yup! I think thats him! Thanks!!

 

[chickendude]

Redhen I do not believe KittyKelly and mikeksfarmer were putting you down or scolding you for the kill. I believe they were merely commenting that it was to bad it happened. They never accused you or your husband of intentionally killing the snake. But Just to keep on the original post I also accidentaly killed a young Eastern milk snake with the weed whacker.

 

[redhen]

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She said i should have relocated it...LOL.. So....??
anyways..it dosent matter, i'm not upset with anyone..i just wanted to clear it up..

Thanks!

 

[poultrykeeper08]

Ha ha when i see a snake i kill it regardless of its a killer or not !!

were theres one snake there is more . Im sure there are plenty of snakes around redhens house that will eat the mice !!

 

[possumqueen]

It's definitely a corn snake.

Anything that eats mice is okay in my book.

Had a five foot black snake that lived in my yard for a while a few years back. His one besetting sin was eggs. I learned to keep the eggs collected, or I'd wake up in the morning and he'd be coiled up in one of the nests soooo content, and so full of eggs he couldn't get back out of the pen. I'd just carry him back out to the back field and turn him loose. He could take down some rats now!

The girls woke me up one night with a lot if indignant squawking and fussing -- it didn't sound like a predator alarm -- and I went out and found that snake slithering along the roost and knocking them all off as he went by. He didn't want them. He wanted omelet!

 

[wing it]

it is a milk snake i have been catching them for 35 years, pretty much harmless. Most(all) are not able to eat a chicken, to small. Big one might take a chick. Wish there were more around great for the garden, eat lots of bugs