<>We came across one on the ranch some 50+ years ago.
My dad almost stepped on it in an old cattle pen.
Was 33" long.
The old State Wildlife HQ Museum in New Orleans has a gigantic one in a jar of formalin.
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<>We came across one on the ranch some 50+ years ago.
My dad almost stepped on it in an old cattle pen.
Was 33" long.
Rat Snake. I would relocate him away from any chicks/eggsSo I use one nesting box to stuff trash into. I changed out my pine chips a while ago and had all the TS bags stuffed in a nest box the hens never use. I have a hen that decided to be broody and was going to try and get her to stop so I moved her out of the box and moved all the trash into the one she was using. When pushing on the Pine shaving bag I felt a strange soft "log" in it and my first thought was what the hell. I pushed it into the box and this fellow came out to say hi. and crawled back into the junk. At 4am I did not much care what he was I was not going to mess with him and hope he eats a rat or 2 along with stealing eggs ? He did not seem aggressive. I am not a Snek person. Should I be worried lol.
I am guessing rat snek
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Only problem is that rat snakes have a habit of stubbornly returning once they find a place they like.Rat Snake. I would relocate him away from any chicks/eggs
Only problem is that rat snakes have a habit of stubbornly returning once they find a place they like.
Sorry. I am not driving a snake down the road any miles.Well, you don't carry him over to the side yard. You drive him down the road a few miles.
That's a BIG Coral Snek!We came across one on the ranch some 50+ years ago.
My dad almost stepped on it in an old cattle pen.
Was 33" long.
So I use one nesting box to stuff trash into. I changed out my pine chips a while ago and had all the TS bags stuffed in a nest box the hens never use. I have a hen that decided to be broody and was going to try and get her to stop so I moved her out of the box and moved all the trash into the one she was using. When pushing on the Pine shaving bag I felt a strange soft "log" in it and my first thought was what the hell. I pushed it into the box and this fellow came out to say hi. and crawled back into the junk. At 4am I did not much care what he was I was not going to mess with him and hope he eats a rat or 2 along with stealing eggs ? He did not seem aggressive. I am not a Snek person. Should I be worried lol.
I am guessing rat snek
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That's a BIG Coral Snek!
Sorry. I am not driving a snake down the road any miles.
supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!That sounds heart attack inducing, almost as bad as waking up surrounded by rattlesnakes.
I've got a friend in Phoenix that tells me the scoripons are terrible there, especially in his neighborhood. That and rattlesnakes.
I killed several when I lived in San Augustine.supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!
supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!
They are there.supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!
but it's strange to not ever seeing one in all those years my father and i were talking about this last year and he said he's never seen one either!They are there.
supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!
Got a decent size timber rattler living here on the place.
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Not saying he was wrong to do what he did, but thumbs are handy....I remember in the 60's a friend of my Dad's was splitting kindling with a hatchet, he reached for a stick and a coral snake bit him on the end of his thumb. Old Boy laid his hand on the stump and chopped his thumb right off. He drove himself to ER with the thumb in his handkerchief and the Dr. told him there was enough poison in that thumb to kill 4 big men.