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Jesusfreak101 said:
morning everyone, sounds like yall have all been busy. just been doing the normal around here. farm chores, house chores, home school. the only thing new is i believe i found the culprit to all my duck eggs going missing. my ducks tend to lay at night and keep their eggs hidden so i always have to hunt for their eggs but i been finding their nest with no eggs. last night i went to let the dog inside through the back door she runs in and doesnt even see the (looked to be) four foot long texas rat snake loving know as a chicken snake. its the second one we have had around. i vote we catch it and get rid of it by relocating to the back of the property or kill it i dont like to share my eggs even more so when i am not getting any. my husband wants to leave it and not kill it and he might be talked into relocating. he thinks it around because the tall grass i am going to have to remind him the last one we had around was around when the grass was cut and stole my egg from the chicken coop. i actually like snakes just dont like them eating my food is all. thankfully all my chicks are almost full grown or i would be worried about them. outside of our visitor last night he would be the only new thing that has happened as of late. i am already ready for fall and this heat to be over. i am not handling it well pregnant. some days have already been in the 100s+ range i believe the highest we have had is 104.
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If ya relocate it, there are some things to consider....are ya just "moving" trouble for another to have to deal with?.....tho they are not territorial, they do reproduce....do ya wish to deal with the offspring each year?.....I like snakes, but some are better off just being thinned out....not relocated.....:)....otherwise, raise more chickens to lay more eggs, so them and you can have some to eat....;)
 
thank fully we live on a two hundred acre ranch and moving him or her to the back field wont hurt anyone we are the closest house to there. even are neighbors are a good distance from there and there are plenty of rodents for it to eat. he or she will remain on the property. our biggest snake issues are the cotton mouths and rattle snakes. those get killed if they come to close to the houses. to many young children and my husbands grandparents cant move that fast away from them and the ones we have on the property have recently have stopped rattling thanks to the hog population they will kill and eat a rattle snake so the snakes have learned not to rattle so that they dont get eaten.
amber i am glad you got ac our went out i think the year before last it was horrible then we lost heat last year which was cold lol.
 
Jesusfreak101 said:
thank fully we live on a two hundred acre ranch and moving him or her to the back field wont hurt anyone we are the closest house to there. even are neighbors are a good distance from there and there are plenty of rodents for it to eat. he or she will remain on the property. our biggest snake issues are the cotton mouths and rattle snakes. those get killed if they come to close to the houses. to many young children and my husbands grandparents cant move that fast away from them and the ones we have on the property have recently have stopped rattling thanks to the hog population they will kill and eat a rattle snake so the snakes have learned not to rattle so that they dont get eaten.
amber i am glad you got ac our went out i think the year before last it was horrible then we lost heat last year which was cold lol.
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I never knew until I joined this forum that pigs eat snakes! Pretty neat!
And I hope your heat didn't break down around January/Feb this year...I drove through Texas to get here and it was soooo cold with that weird cold-front :eek: I remember stopping at a gas station and getting out of the car...the wind had to have been like 50mph of freezing cold :lol:
But driving through Amarillo and watching the sun come up there was amazing...such a beautiful part of the state with that huge sky!
 
There isn't very much that a pig won't eat....and if they can't eat it they will sure chew on it and spit it out....but, they excel at getting snakes....most of their veins are close to the bone and not the surface of the skin....therefore, no venom can be injected into a direct vein....and the skin is thick and tough enough to repel the fangs.....and they are deadly with that snout.....:)
 
Jesusfreak101 said:
thank fully we live on a two hundred acre ranch and moving him or her to the back field wont hurt anyone we are the closest house to there. even are neighbors are a good distance from there and there are plenty of rodents for it to eat. he or she will remain on the property. our biggest snake issues are the cotton mouths and rattle snakes. those get killed if they come to close to the houses. to many young children and my husbands grandparents cant move that fast away from them and the ones we have on the property have recently have stopped rattling thanks to the hog population they will kill and eat a rattle snake so the snakes have learned not to rattle so that they dont get eaten.
amber i am glad you got ac our went out i think the year before last it was horrible then we lost heat last year which was cold lol.
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You need a couple of pet yard pigs. LOL
 
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