Which BYC member scares you?

[EverythingDucks]

I found this dummy under the coop just earlier today

 

[Isadora]

Ohmygosh hims so smol
This is the one I caught last year
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Oh wow, that one's teensy!
The kids came inside so gleefully that I knew they caught some kind of creature. I was hoping it was a toad but they whipped out this ring-necked snake and it startled me

 

[Isadora]

I found this dummy under the coop just earlier today
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What kind is he?

 

[ColtHandorf]

Found this little dude yesterday after mulching a 30” copperhead with the mower.

 

[Isadora]

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Found this little dude yesterday after mulching a 30” copperhead with the mower.

Do you see copperheads on a regular basis?

 

[EverythingDucks]

What kind is he?

He's a gray rat snake, aka "chicken snake".
They're pretty docile. That one looked to be a full grown male, the females get a bit bigger.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Do you see copperheads on a regular basis?

No, thank god! Usually one maybe two a year. First year we moved in everything was over grown. I stopped counting after relocating and then killing 33 rat snakes and two copperheads. Next year there was only a handful and one teensy baby and the biggest one I’ve ever seen. Lots of western ribbon snakes and rough green snakes though. Last year just one rat snake in the road that I 100% ran over in front of the house and a couple of babies that I took far, far away. And this year there’s been two rat snakes both longer than I am tall. The last one ate six chocolate Orpington chicks and three Blue Salmon Faverolles pullets. And the one copperhead. It was out in the pasture.

 

[Painted Calls]

Feets! What species and sex?

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

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Found this little dude yesterday after mulching a 30” copperhead with the mower.

Was the mulching on purpose?

 

[Isadora]

Was the mulching on purpose?

I'm guessing yes.