Snake in the hen house

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Snake in the hen house

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Recent heavy rains have brought all sorts of varmints up from low areas.
This morning my wife found a snake curled up in a chicken nest with a dummy ceramic egg showing in its belly.
So, I strapped on my M19 .357 with snake shot loads and went to the chicken yard. My grandson used a hoe to lift one sick-at-its-stomach 4 foot snake out onto the grass where I dispatched it with snake shot to the head - DRT.

As a kid, we had chickens, cats, and dogs and therefore considered all snakes to be varmints and the rattlers and moccasins were just more dangerous varmints to be done with for the benefit of humans and livestock. Back then I used my Daisy pump BB gun to kill them and it is long gone so I use one of my fave revolvers. Man, the 6 inch M19 does feel good on my hip. :)
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Snakes:
> Out in the wild I leave them alone. That's their place.
> Up close to the house or in the livestock area, they are terminated with extreme prejudice. That's my place.

I have a friend that eats them. I'm not that hard core.

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Some of my deer hunting buddies ate rattlesnakes, but I have so far not tried it.

I grew up in rattlesnake country and there were moccasins anywhere there was water, so as a young hunter, I terminated every poisonous snake that I came across rather than leave it to strike me or someone else at a later date. I still do.
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The Jewish part of me won't eat snakes, but the Texan in me might just enjoy that... :wink:
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Charles, I have been impressed with the CCI .22 LR shot load. I killed a three-footer from about six feet with one shot and it didn't quiver. Can imagine the .357 is even more effective. Hope to give the .45 ACP version a try if they are ever back in stock.
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crs wrote: Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:29 am Recent heavy rains have brought all sorts of varmints up from low areas.
This morning my wife found a snake curled up in a chicken nest with a dummy ceramic egg showing in its belly.
So, I strapped on my M19 .357 with snake shot loads and went to the chicken yard. My grandson used a hoe to lift one sick-at-its-stomach 4 foot snake out onto the grass where I dispatched it with snake shot to the head - DRT.

As a kid, we had chickens, cats, and dogs and therefore considered all snakes to be varmints and the rattlers and moccasins were just more dangerous varmints to be done with for the benefit of humans and livestock. Back then I used my Daisy pump BB gun to kill them and it is long gone so I use one of my fave revolvers. Man, the 6 inch M19 does feel good on my hip. :)
I may take it with me to Whittington Center next week.

I'm curious about the ceramic egg..... :o
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crs wrote: Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:46 am Some of my deer hunting buddies ate rattlesnakes, but I have so far not tried it.

Tastes just like chicken...... ;) . :roll:

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Fried up, rattlesnake is pretty good eating. We used to hunt them for the meat. Now days they tell us that they're endangered and not to kill them. They're still dead if I see them around the house.
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I had fried rattlesnake at Rustler's Roost near Phoenix a couple years back. Wasn't bad, but I like alligator better (if we're sticking to reptiles)! :D
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A friend wo kept chickens used fake eggs to lure the hens into laying real ones.
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junkbug wrote: Sun Aug 20, 2017 3:00 pm A friend wo kept chickens used fake eggs to lure the hens into laying real ones.
OK, thanks - never saw that one before.... :?
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@crs: What kind of snake was it?
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Years ago I kept snakes, red tail boa, rainbow boa(2), Burmese Python, King snake( nicest one of the lot), Kenya sand boa.
At one point even tried to tame a Bull Snake- meanest *** ever!
I'd hunt rattlers with a 1/2 " breaker bar. Just ease up and whack em behind the head. I'd shoot a Bull though!
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Kashi,
It was an egg eating, grandma scaring snake! Not tolerated around here.
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GunnyMack wrote: Mon Aug 21, 2017 4:40 am Years ago I kept snakes, red tail boa, rainbow boa(2), Burmese Python, King snake( nicest one of the lot), Kenya sand boa.
At one point even tried to tame a Bull Snake- meanest *** ever!
I'd hunt rattlers with a 1/2 " breaker bar. Just ease up and whack em behind the head. I'd shoot a Bull though!
Bull snakes are born with an attitude, but I leave them alone when out in the wild. They eat rattlesnakes and are immune to the venom. I have been close to bull snakes when they vibrate their tail against dry leaves or something similar. It sounds a whole lot like a rattlesnake. Talk about a dose of adrenalin and going to pucker factor 10 in about half of a heartbeat. You see the bull snake and hear what sounds like a rattler that you don't see.
PillHer was in the yard a few years ago and a rat snake dropped out of the pear tree onto her shoulders. I was at work, and when she screamed a neighbor came out with a pistol. He killed the snake. When the police showed up, PillHer told the officer what happened. She was still shaking. He gave the neighbor a verbal warning about discharging a firearm within the city limits.
A young co-worker who lives out in the country has a younger sister who was bitten by a rat snake. The younger sister was walking into the house, and a rat snake was in the hedge beside the cement walkway. It reached up and bit her on the butt as she walked past. She screamed and my co-worker was home at the time. She came out with her Henry .22lr lever action and killed the snake. I gave the co-worker that Henry. Her Mom was very angry with me for a while, but she has forgiven me since that incident. The co-worker was 20 when I gave it to her. She is now in nursing school and is looking at guns for concealed carry. She plans on getting her license soon.
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Actually there are quite a few different snakes that try using the tail rattle as a warning. One of which are the hog nose snakes. Stepped out the door at a buddies and all of a sudden we heard the buzzing. We stopped on his stoop and looked, took us a few minutes to find the snake, it was a new born western hog nose, no bigger then about 4" long. That little thing stopped us cold!
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Been 'bit' by lots of rat snakes and milk snakes, but their teeth are more like coarse sandpaper than real teeth, and mostly an annoyance.

I wouldn't kill a non-venomous snake any more than I'd kill a chickadee or butterfly; they aren't going to do me any harm. If one is in the hen house I'll walk it back in the woods 3-400 yards and turn it loose; it won't get back to the henhouse.

A venomous one I'd also leave alone but just relocate, especially now that we don't have young kids toddling around.
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That would of scared my wife to death, we don`t have any dangerous snakes here but I still don`t like them.
A garden snake had a toad in his mouth head first one day, the toad puffs himself up so it`s not so easy to swallow him.
I held the snake with a stick and freed the toad boy did that make that snake mad, he coiled up like a rattler and acted like he was going to attack me.
Shortly after that he lost his head from a quick blow from a machete :wink:
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