2024 Snake Thread

[Hoji]

Yessir. Lives in a bud's chicken coup.

One of the nicest pattern ratsnakes I've seen as well.

Here's one from a couple years ago. Really like this pic
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Surprised the chickens put up with it. Ours go apeshit and attack every snake they see

 

[leVieux]

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Nice MS gray ratsnake

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Is that a ‘pet”, or didju catch it from the wild ?

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[tedwitt]

When I was a kid, Dad sent me out one night to gather eggs. I hear a hen making funny noises in the nest. I reached under her searching for egg and wrapped my 12 year old hand around a huge snake. I damn near made a new gate getting out of there. I told Dad, I ain't getting the eggs, there a big snake in there. He grabbed is old T Baker double barrel 12 guage and flash light and went out there, when he got there the snake was going up the roosts. He shot it just below the head, blew a big old hole in the back of the hen house.
The next day I measured it, that chicken snake was just over 6 feet long, plus what Dad shot off it. I tanned the hide and made a wall hanger out of it. Over time it gave in to mother nature., this was back in 1966.

 

[BladeZealot]

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Is that a ‘pet”, or didju catch it from the wild ?

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Caught it in my bud's coop. So domesticated wild...

He is left alone generally. My bud leaves them be. He'd rather lose a few eggs than have a rodent problem.

This one didn't even offer to bite.

The one in the pic by the hen from a couple years ago chewed me up lol.

 

[BladeZealot]

Surprised the chickens put up with it. Ours go apeshit and attack every snake they see

I was quite surprised as well. I guess they have grown accustomed to them. The snakes never bother the chickens. Just have a few eggs from time to time

 

[deemus]

Yessir. Lives in a bud's chicken coup.

One of the nicest pattern ratsnakes I've seen as well.

Here's one from a couple years ago. Really like this pic
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I played football in high school and it was my job to feed the critters no matter how late it got. I hated rolling into that barn at 11pm - 2am after a game, always dark, most of the time without a flashlight, reaching into the laying box and feeling skin. I always pitched them into the field.

The copperheads on the other hand were executed on sight. Only snake I've been chased by.