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Another snake ID needed
Ruger4me
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This guy is a little bigger (about twice the size) of the copperhead I previously posted, but in just about the same spot...
Sorry sunlight wasn't being to cooperative and its just a phone camera...
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Looks like a Black Rat Snake... leave it alone... good snake to have around..
Floyd621that is what I though, I'd seen a few here before and I just let them go their way.
Looks like a Black Racer to me. Nice snake to have around especially if you have a garden. They keep the pests down. Bob
Yep a black rat snake, very beneficial: HeDog taught me well.
OK, just read 85% of all venomous snake bites in MO. is the copperhead. Yea, I know but they have rattlers, cottonmouths also but he copperhead is aggressive and no one will change my mind. 👊
Black rat snake, all over the place around here. Folks say if you have them you won't have rats and mice, I call BS.
They lived in good harmony in the old home place that I use to live in. Caught a few that were at least 6 to 7 feet long.
Barn has plenty of them as residents now. Kind of spooky when I go to the barn and see what looks like a hoe handle has been dragged across the dirt floor😓
Wife will catch them, sometimes too far back and she gets bitten, teeth are small and break off but never seemed to bother her.
The racers around here are black on top and bottom. Rarely seen but believe it or not I saw one last week, it was on a porch trying to "sneek" up on a birds nest. And He Dog I did it no harm
Been told where you have blackies you won't have poisonous snakes, somewhat agree as I have never seen a poisonous snake around here but then I have seen exhibits where they are bunched up together.
Black rat snake, good to have around unless you have chicks or eggs.
ridgleyart oh... I got both, but he wasn't near them...
I can retire and just let Chiefr take over for me. Copperheads are not agressive. You are flat wrong on that. They are defensive. I have had them crawl across the toe of my boot with no attempt to bite. Remember, they were here and on "your" property a few hundred thousand years before you were you were conceived in the back seat of a Chevy. They gonna be around after you are dust. Mean time, if they are a threat on your property, and you have no other way to deal with them, then kill them. If they are in the woods a half a mile from home, you have no excuse not to walk on by.
Over the years I have captured all 5 species of the most common I know of, including the Brewster County TX variety and never seen one act aggressively. Most are easily picked up with a L stick and dropped in a bag or bucket. Quit collecting years ago. Today any I pick up on my property are photographed and relocated. Have spent time teaching neighbors snakes are mostly beneficial and call me instead of killing them. If they dont want them around, they are relocated.
Certainly you have encountered Blacktailed Rattlesnakes (Molossus). Never seen a Crotalus so non aggressive.
The majority are docile, byt I have run into two very aggressive young males males, with females, during breeding season.
Alabama Blacksnake (FMJ)
They rely almost entirely on their cryptic coloration to hide them. I have touched more than one with the toe of my boot before they even rattled, and they never did more. I move one juvenile out of our camp on the Rio San Francisco (working with narrow headed garter snakes) who was pretty fisty and wanted to give me a good bite. I think he was after our steaks.
Classy right there, "conceived in the back seat". Tell that to the 10 year old at the church picnic who was walking by a bush that bit her twice and was flown out and asking "if she was going to die" and wanted to pray to God. True story. Wife has treated many copper bites and not one of them was kicking the snake. I will get a load and drop them around your nest and PLEASE don't worry when your, i.e. mine, grandkids are out playing cause they won't bother anybody. Leave a few loaded handguns also cause they won't bother anybody in the 2-5 year old range. Maybe set a few bear traps just cause they won't hurt anybody either. Sound logic you have and I really think your comment was totally unwarranted.
The only part I found offensive was to think that my parents were doing the deed in a Chevy! We are Ford people! LOL!
Okie and ridgleyart you guys were correct, guess who was in the chicken coop this morning when I went to let the hens out? Yep that same dude, must have gotten in through the 1 inch hole that is in the side of coop about 2.5 feet high just below the roof where I put in the cord for the heat lamp during winter... Time to patch that hole since every other point of entry was closed tight and it wouldn't fit through the 1/2 inch square wire mesh... I let the chickens out the front into their run then closed it back up and opened the backside where I can reach their nest to get the eggs so hopefully he will leave and go on his own way since there where no eggs, My two hens don't lay until latter in the day...
Have a black snake that hangs out in the barn. When the hens were laying in an old wing back chair out there, he would slither up to grab one. Two different times I caught him in the act. A few raps on the head and I pulled the egg out of his/her mouth. Hens are doing better about laying in the coop. Snake is back to eating rodents as it should.
Happy to report that I have finally convinced #1 to let the snakes live in peace here on the farm.
Black sneeks matter
I totally understand that some pictures come out like this but if you did not say there was a snake involved, I would have guessed you found yourself a nice NIGHT CRAWLER for the bait bucket! 😁