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Location: Here | lurker - 2014-04-03 10:14 PM Lurker2 - 2014-04-03 10:13 PM Lurker is going to send a picture of my sister at the golf course in Arizona. The sign warns you of rattle snakes on the course!
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | foundation horse - 2014-04-03 10:06 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-04-03 7:07 PM Rattlesnake of the new year, it was a young one maybe 2 years old in my backyard, dangit I hate this, having them coming up in the yard. Now I am on high snake alert.  How does One 'age' a rattlesnake?
I was really guessing on the age, but with it being about 17 inches long and its rattle had two buttons on so I was thinking it was around 2 years old the most maybe younger. Heck it might be a year old but ate really good in its young and short life. Right now the june bugs are crazy thick at night arought the lights so it might of been feeding off of them. But this is not my first Rattlesnake and I know it wont be the last, I wish tho. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Itsme - 2014-04-03 10:39 PM Get yourself a little busybody dog like a rat terrier, they will let you know when a snake is around.
Ha ha ha ha ha,,,, I do have busybody hens and they are pretty good snakers, last year they killed 2 baby rattlesnakes and 3 Copper heads that were really young too, these were like a few months old when the hens got awhole of them. This last snake just got by them and the cats and dogs.... I bet it come up during the night to eat bugs while the girls {hens } were a sleep. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | SG. - 2014-04-03 9:56 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2014-04-03 9:03 PM Bibliafarm - 2014-04-03 8:06 PM I have had so many close calls with rattlesnakes , 2 water moccassins  and a copperhead. I saw a fawn grazing when I got out of my truck in the side yard area by my woods and I walked over in flipflops.. out of corner of my eye I saw about a  foot away if that  in a sandy area a huge rattlesnake. all coiled up. I think i surprised him for he didnt rattle asap or id have heard him. I think I lost a few of my heartbeats though that day. I jumped and ran and got my camara.. took a photo then went to grab my pistol and he was gone.. Then one day my Lab was with me by my creek and she jumped in and i had to help her out it was steep.. went to reach down and all i saw was a cottonmouth wide open.. I dont like be surprised at all.  Â
Their saying because the wild hogs are eating the larger Rattlesnakes, so the snakes quit warning so the wild hogs would not find them by hearing the rattle that the snakes make. |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2014-04-03 11:21 PM
Itsme - 2014-04-03 10:39 PM Get yourself a little busybody dog like a rat terrier, they will let you know when a snake is around.
Ha ha ha ha ha,,,, I do have busybody hens and they are pretty good snakers, last year they killed 2 baby rattlesnakes and 3 Copper heads that were really young too, these were like a few months old when the hens got awhole of them. This last snake just got by them and the cats and dogs.... I bet it come up during the night to eat bugs while the girls {hens } were a sleep.Â
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| Southtxponygirl - 2014-04-03 8:59 PM barrelbasher - 2014-04-03 8:07 PM I HATE snakes! Ha ha ha ha ha I do too to a point, I like snakes but not the bad ones. 
I HATE THEM ALL!!!!! THEY ALL NEED TO DIE!!!!!!!!!! (And YES, I would rather have mice, rats, ANYTHING but a snake - EWWWWWWW)!!  |
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | OH MY GOSH!!!!!!! And I would not come out of the barn when I thought a gardener snake was in the yard. Lucky for me, it turned out to be a lead rope laying in the grass (true story)  I HATE SNAKES! And sincerely feel sorry for all of you that have to live with rattlers. We have coooperheads & timber rattlers but luckly only ever scene them twice and I perfer to keep it that way. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | We were working cattle this last Saturday and my horse about stepped in the middle of one. Thankfully it rattled and was under a bush. I didn't have a pistol or anything but it certainly scared me. |
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Location: North Texas | oija - 2014-04-04 8:18 AM
We were working cattle this last Saturday and my horse about stepped in the middle of one. Thankfully it rattled and was under a bush. I didn't have a pistol or anything but it certainly scared me.Â
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| foundation horse - 2014-04-03 10:06 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-04-03 7:07 PM Rattlesnake of the new year, it was a young one maybe 2 years old in my backyard, dangit I hate this, having them coming up in the yard. Now I am on high snake alert. How does One 'age' a rattlesnake?
mostly by size. Full grown adults (depending on breed within them) will be larger in girth and longer from tip to tail. They will also have fully developed rattles even if they don't utilize them to warn their prey.
The babies that I am familiar with in KS are the size of gardner (? gartner?) snakes ... they'll look more like the girth of pencils to small sticks and be much shorter in length - talking like 12 inches.
HOWEVER ... the uber deadly massasauga's are smaller all the way around. They will prey on literally anything that moves and carry more deadly venom than a standard timber rattler.
I got to learn about these buggers last year when my chickens started disappearing left and right ... I literally thought I was going to pee my pants one day when I walked in the chicken house and looked up to see the little buggers all curled up in the RAFTERS of my chicken house. HOLY MOLEY! Talk about running screaming and yelling for any gun the SO could find so we could blast them!!! wow!
I took a dead one down to the local extension guy who helped me figure out it was a massasauga and then he proceeded to teach me all about the venomous snakes in my area.
ETA - I have been around all sorts of snakes - good and bad - through my life but DANG, I can live without them! :)
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Location: West Tennessee | lindseylou2290 - 2014-04-04 8:28 AM foundation horse - 2014-04-03 10:06 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2014-04-03 7:07 PM
Rattlesnake of the new year, it was a young one maybe 2 years old in my backyard, dangit I hate this, having them coming up in the yard. Now I am on high snake alert.
How does One 'age' a rattlesnake?
mostly by size. Full grown adults (depending on breed within them ) will be larger in girth and longer from tip to tail. They will also have fully developed rattles even if they don't utilize them to warn their prey.
The babies that I am familiar with in KS are the size of gardner (? gartner? ) snakes ... they'll look more like the girth of pencils to small sticks and be much shorter in length - talking like 12 inches.
HOWEVER ... the uber deadly massasauga's are smaller all the way around. They will prey on literally anything that moves and carry more deadly venom than a standard timber rattler.
I got to learn about these buggers last year when my chickens started disappearing left and right ... I literally thought I was going to pee my pants one day when I walked in the chicken house and looked up to see the little buggers all curled up in the RAFTERS of my chicken house. HOLY MOLEY! Talk about running screaming and yelling for any gun the SO could find so we could blast them!!! wow!
I took a dead one down to the local extension guy who helped me figure out it was a massasauga and then he proceeded to teach me all about the venomous snakes in my area.
ETA - I have been around all sorts of snakes - good and bad - through my life but DANG, I can live without them! : )
I had to look the massasauga up? Never heard of it before.... Now, I just have to read what I googled so i can have nighmares tonight.
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Location: Fort Worth / Springtown | I know what you mean..all of you - scary!
I came down the driveway from work yesterday and my husband was trimming trees - he told me he'd saw and shot the first snake of the year. Ugh.
We've had our place for a year now and not real snake savvy - had a VERY CLOSE CALL last Summer after coming back from 8 days at church camp- the weeds were grown up a bit and my husband was moving the grill to mow (we hadn't put in a back patio yet) -- Thank God the grill brush had fallen on the ground (had the scraper on the end) and my husband had picked it up before moving the grill - that was his only weapon against a copperhead that came out from underneath the grill when he moved it - he stepped on it with his (thankfully steel-toed) boot - and YELLED at our dog, who was coming outside through the doggy door to stay back - he said it felt like the snake would triple in size every time it writhed underneath his boot - it struck his boot multiple times - it took all his strength to hold it down and too long to kill it with the grill brush. He was still shaking when I got home later and he told me about it. Thank God the grill brush had fallen on the ground!
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Location: Oklahoma City OK | Ewwwww! I'll have nightmares just reading these posts about snakes!! I'm a big ol' tough girl, but nothing sends me running and screaming like a snake sighting! With that said, it's only polite for y'all to give the location of your snake sighting, you know? So I can avoid that area specifically?   |
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| dme0324 - 2014-04-04 8:46 AM lindseylou2290 - 2014-04-04 8:28 AM foundation horse - 2014-04-03 10:06 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2014-04-03 7:07 PM
 Rattlesnake of the new year, it was a young one maybe 2 years old in my backyard, dangit I hate this, having them coming up in the yard. Now I am on high snake alert.Â
How does One 'age' a rattlesnake?
mostly by size. Full grown adults (depending on breed within them ) will be larger in girth and longer from tip to tail. They will also have fully developed rattles even if they don't utilize them to warn their prey.
The babies that I am familiar with in KS are the size of gardner (? gartner? ) snakes ... they'll look more like the girth of pencils to small sticks and be much shorter in length - talking like 12 inches.
HOWEVER ... the uber deadly massasauga's are smaller all the way around. They will prey on literally anything that moves and carry more deadly venom than a standard timber rattler.
I got to learn about these buggers last year when my chickens started disappearing left and right ... I literally thought I was going to pee my pants one day when I walked in the chicken house and looked up to see the little buggers all curled up in the RAFTERS of my chicken house. HOLY MOLEY! Talk about running screaming and yelling for any gun the SO could find so we could blast them!!! wow!
I took a dead one down to the local extension guy who helped me figure out it was a massasauga and then he proceeded to teach me all about the venomous snakes in my area.
ETA - I have been around all sorts of snakes - good and bad - through my life but DANG, I can live without them! : )
Good grief, why did IÂ open this thread, I know better Â
 carry a big stick!!! HUGS and I'm freaked out too b/c my SO just called to say he killed a pile of baby copperheads by our well top thingy. OMG ... freak out time now!!! That is IN MY HORSE PASTURE! GAH!!!!
ETA - Central North Kansas.
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Location: North Texas | smmthbr - 2014-04-04 9:53 AM
Ewwwww! I'll have nightmares just reading these posts about snakes!! I'm a big ol' tough girl, but nothing sends me running and screaming like a snake sighting! With that said, it's only polite for y'all to give the location of your snake sighting, you know? So I can avoid that area specifically?  Â
Yesterday's incident @ my house was in my front yard that migrated upon my front porch light. (The snake died!) |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | lurker - 2014-04-03 10:15 PM i have no idea why the picture wont show up in the thread. sigh..... Here it is...
Well heck I thought that I had it, guess not, but that is a cute picture. 
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