2024 Snake Thread

[leVieux]

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.

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The old State Wildlife HQ Museum in New Orleans has a gigantic one in a jar of formalin.
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[Hoji]

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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Rat Snake. I would relocate him away from any chicks/eggs

 

[oldag]

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.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Only problem is that rat snakes have a habit of stubbornly returning once they find a place they like.

Well, you don't carry him over to the side yard. You drive him down the road a few miles.

 

[tedwitt]

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.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Found some evidence yesterday. I weed wacked half off the ditch then went to get lunch. Came back to finish up and this was laying where I had already cut. So it had shed after I cut and left. Pretty cool but I would have liked to see it happening.

 

[oldag]

Well, you don't carry him over to the side yard. You drive him down the road a few miles.

Sorry. I am not driving a snake down the road any miles.

 

[BRD@66]

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.

That's a BIG Coral Snek!

 

[leVieux]

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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[ZX9RCAM]

That's a BIG Coral Snek!

Yep, and I forgot to mention, that was measured after several hours on ice, and with the head cut off.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Sorry. I am not driving a snake down the road any miles.

I can see where your relocation would have failed, LOL.

 

[Axxe55]

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.

supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!

 

[tedwitt]

supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!

I killed several when I lived in San Augustine.

 

[Sasquatch]

supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!

Welps, logic (and snakes I've seen relocated on shows like Lone Star Law or whatever that show following the game wardens is called) dictates there should be rattlers there. There's rattlers in western Looosiana, rattlers on Okiehoma and Arrrr-kansas (is Arkansas home to a bunch of pirates who couldn't spell that wandered too far inland, or just a bunch of cousin-humping Oklahomans that got lost? Inquiring minds want to know - as I've got family in both states) - I'd say its probably your good luck you've not encountered them, unless of course you WANT to encounter them, in which case is bad luck.

Could be the rattlers there are just real good at hide & seek.

I've had one run in with a rattler on our property a few years ago, and my pop used to work over on the east side of our lil town and said they "removed" rattlers and other snakes fairly often from the machinery and all the pallets of equipment in the yard (drilling motors & shit, lots of pallets and equipment laying about) - you didn't climb into a piece of equipment without checking first for slithery friends.

Every once in a while I remember @Hoji mentioning how he removed a damned Gaboon viper from under a house some time back, because a pet shop in our area keeps a bunch of snakes like that, horned vipers, gaboons, and a few varieties of cobra + snakes native to the US (rattlers, coppers, cottons, hybrids) and it could get real sporty if that building ever got wrecked by a storm.

 

[oldag]

supposedly there are rattlesnakes in east texas but in over sixty years in this area i have never yet seen one!

They are there.

 

[Axxe55]

They are there.

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!

 

[paknheat]

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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[Sasquatch]

Got a decent size timber rattler living here on the place.


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When you see him again - invite @Axxe55 over so he can finally say he's seen one in east Texas. Y'all are in the same general area.

 

[mongoose]

My sister and her neighbors have killed several North of Austin.

 

[cycleguy2300]

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.

Not saying he was wrong to do what he did, but thumbs are handy....

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