I had that years ago behind the deep freeze in the basement. Damned thing could be heard upstairs when the door was open. Well it has humanely dispatched.
Snake ID Please
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Those are the ones that score a zero on a exam. That is the mantra of the baffle with BS group.
Yes, might have got your seeds
My seeds aren't important, as I've never wanted children, but my vascular system is!
Mice don’t do damage in the field when kept in check but if you let the population it will be a problem . I’m not a snake lover but I understand the nature has a way of controlling itself .
We have Eagles and Hawks that hunt in my fields . They eat snakes rats mice groundhogs and pretty much anything that moves . As soon as the above population can’t sustain them they move on to other hunting grounds and come back the following year .
Right now we have a rabbit problem way to many so I’m thinking the predators will be returning soon
I used to live on a couple acres surrounded by hundreds of acres of fields. There were a couple of palm trees that the owls lived in. Under the palms, there were hundreds of owl pellets (what's left of the mouse - https://www.birds.cornell.edu/k12/pellet-teaching-tips/). I still had to set mouse traps in the spring and summer, but it was comforting to know the owls were working the problem every night.
IMO as soon as an animal starts to cause harm it's a nuisance and is treated as such. Rattlesnakes and ticks are pre-judged and meet their maker as soon as possible.
Here's an oldie but a goodie of a Northern Pacific Rattlesnake that got way too close for comfort. I was holding the phone about six inches away from his head. You just know he can't strike, but you mind is screaming DANGER WILL ROBINSON!
Watch until the end...
My entire family has been trappers since we landed here before the bitter start. I grew up trapping and Dad and Grandpa would never harvest a possum as they had no value. I however saw the $3-$5 for a fleshed and dried hide as money I could earn so when I got one in a **** set I took it,.
A lifetime of taking the seeds from hogs and cattle I will agree 100%,,,,,the vascular system is affected. I am amazed how we can put a bull in the head chute, use a Newberry Knife to slit the scrotum, drop the testicles, clamp them above the vas deferens with a two finger clamp which is attached to a cordless drill then twist them off. After all that he is a steer and walks over to the bunk and eats.
Anyone want a vid.
The epidural is only for the vid online
Skip to 4:30 to see the screw.....
How many Coyotes do you have?
Not many . Don’t know why but I haven’t seen or heard any in a while . Use to hear them at night after a kill a couple times a week . Several large black bears though almost hit one last weekend with my 68
Right. But my thought on why they eat so many ticks is not that they search them out as prey, but that they have so many already attached to them. They don’t have to look far.
sledhead34
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NO THANKS SNAKES CREEP THE HELL OUT OF ME AND THE WORST WAY TO GO FROM A 2 INCH TALL REPTILE DAMN THAT WOULD PISS ME OFF
HuskyShepherd2016
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Looks like some kind of grey runner/racer snake. There are quite a few non venomous snakes that look kinda generic like that.
FLINT
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Hello,
I'm not sure if you still want to know what kind of snake that is.
It is a plain bellied water snake.
I tried to read through all of the replies, but could only get through a couple pages of every possible snake related tangent, so I gave up and skipped to the end.
it is or was definitely not venomous. I read that this species spends a surprising amount of time on land for a water snake.
you can look up the species name to verify the ID, but I'm pretty sure it's correct. I'm a herpetologist, and while I live in VA and am not familiar with this particular species, I'm pretty good with snake ID.
Came across this King yesterday. It seems to stay along the back ditch and tree line as I saw it or one like it last year. Great snake to keep around as they will choke a copperhead or rattlesnake to the bitter end(as it's a Colubrid). That's a win for me. Sun was at my back so may not show up well.
I've seen Timber rattlers (also called velvet tail) in some area and the skin on the big en's just above the rattlers look like smooth velvet.
Rattlesnakes are born alive.
I knew a guy that done the same with big diamond back rattlers until one day it happened.
When he walked by the cages they would be rattling and therefore he did not pay any attention and a big one had got out and got him on the leg just above the ankle. All he had for a leg from the ankle to the knee was just what looked like skin over the bone, no meat or muscle. He still liked rattlers and said he thought MAYBE he is now immune to their bites. I said, I'm from Missouri, show me. (and by the way, I do not help stupid people)
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