First Snake of the year

[Looking4new]

Great story! Laughing my butt off at 7AM.

 

[groundcover]

Reminds me of a guy I worked whit that had the washer and dryer in the basement . His wife went to do laundry one day and a snake was hanging from one of the log beams of the old farmhouse . He ended up moving the washer and dryer upstairs to the kitchen !

Was talking to a friend of mine yesterday that moved south. He was on his four wheeler by his pond and his neighbor stopped by. They noticed a snake in the water and my friend pulled his gun and sent it to the bottom. The neighbor said man you must be some shot to hit that with a handgun from a four wheeler ! My friend ejected the spent .410 shell from his Judge and the neighbor began to get the picture!

 

[Garandman]

An Army buddy got bit by a Pygmy Rattler at Eglin AFB. He had a glove on so it barely punctured his skin. The snake got about three feet when another guy mashed it into the ground with a rifle butt.

They decided to medevac him as a precaution. Just as we hear the chopper approaching the RI comes up to him with a plastic bag. "Here," he said, "You forgot 'your' snake." Apparently they test them?

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

Not really tractor safety.....

But safety non the less.... first snake of the year... about 7 inches long, but the dang thing was right up against the house.... hate these things...

I think this is a young copperhead, but I cant really tell.
What do you guys think?

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snake for sure but not a copperhead, heres a pic of a copperhead that was on my walking trail yesterday, sorry to say he had to go.

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

Now if you want to see an extremely large one here's a pic of one I killed last november, almost 36" long and very large in diameter, many told me they havent ran into a copperhead this size and in fact I never saw one this size but here he is, dead right behind our barn.

 

[txdon]

Kenneth in Texas do you have a lot of feral hogs on your place?

 

[NewfieDan]

You might be on to something here. I have seen several snakes this spring but the copperhead, which was the most abundant, has not made an appearance. Could it be these guys are taking care of them? - or is it the cool spring? I'll keep you updated.

They don't need to be feral to kill snakes. My stepfather had western rattle snakes where he grew up. One he caught one and threw it into a pig pen. The pigs went nuts trying to get at it. Unfortunately, the farmer was in the pen at the time. He ended up in the hospital from the pigs.

 

[CobyRupert]

I saw a "first snake of the year " just the other day.

It was dangling in the clutches of a small hawk ;-)

Supper I suppose.

Vermont doesn't really have poison snakes, so I don't worry. Even if a local hill is called "rattle snake mountain". I suppose one was seen once, and it stuck! ;-)

I saw my first snake yesterday, the same way. Not sure what kind it was, other than being a 'good snake" (i.e. (IMO) "the only good snake is a dead....")

Yes, VT does have rattlers. Especially around Rattlesnake Ridge just north of Fair Haven. It's at the "Rattle Snake latitude". You can draw an almost straight line west to the rattlesnake dens around Whitehall NY and Tongue Mountain, Lake George NY.

 

[Kenneth in Texas]

Kenneth in Texas do you have a lot of feral hogs on your place?

I have some but not covered up with them

 

[Bird]

They don't need to be feral to kill snakes. My stepfather had western rattle snakes where he grew up. One he caught one and threw it into a pig pen. The pigs went nuts trying to get at it. Unfortunately, the farmer was in the pen at the time. He ended up in the hospital from the pigs.

When I was a kid, I'd heard that hogs would kill and eat snakes. So I was 13 or 14 years old when I caught a big black (non-poisonous) snake and threw it in a pen with hogs and they simply ignored it.