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Ole Country Boy

05-23-2006 07:13:32




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More off topic, but,, you guys are great... I got Wasp and now SNAKES!!! Dirtyrootensnkilefriggin snakes!! out in the barn/shop. Had removed one smaller one bout 3 weeks ago, yellowish with black spots, have no idea what it was, but it got away before I could make mince meat out of him. Warned wife and we laid down moth balls, like normal. Well saw that same snake or another one like him that escaped under the plywood floor before I could chop him!!! Then it got serious, Wife went into her garden room and yelled!!! Durn big skin bout 5 foot long. Was not there 24 hours before in that same room that I ran out the small snake.

Ok, maybe I bothered the snakes but putting down liquid termite killer that my Brother, the pest control expert, recommended. While at the store I saw a liquid product for snake removal. Read the instructions and it is mostly the same chemical as moth balls, which is what I have used in the past. You pour this stuff down and around where the snakes are and it warns you to allow a place for snakes to escape. It was a liquid. Any one ever used commerical products for snake removal? The floor where they are living/hiding is plywood on 4X4 beams. Need to take up some of that floor for replacement, but durn,, don't think my blood pressure could handle lifing up plywood and finding a big ole snake under there..

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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hvw

05-23-2006 12:38:51




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
My experience around here is that the poisonous snakes tend to stay away and the beneficial ones come around. I know that's not necessarily true all the time but it is in my case.

I've also learned that a cat will kill snakes in a heartbeat just like they do everything else. It's amazing to watch. It will give you new respect for cats even if you hate them. It'll also make you thankful cats don't get big as labs.

Now, I don't want to make you feel embarrassed but I'll add this last thing. This past week my 71 year old woman neighbor ask me to look at a snake that she saw in her boxwoods. We found it easy enough and saw that it was a harmless black snake of some kind. About 5 feet long though. She told me to leave it alone so it could eat whatever pest had attracted it. Smart woman.

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Bruce (VA)

05-23-2006 13:25:41




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to hvw, 05-23-2006 12:38:51  
Hmmmmm ..... .a fight between a cat & a copperhead? Isn't that a bit like a war between Iran & Iraq: who cares who wins?!!



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Jerry Marks

05-23-2006 12:15:05




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
Yellow with black spots? Kind of sounds like a bullsnake..... ...a great mouser! Black with yellow spots..... ....a salt and pepper/speckled king snake..... .one of the most beneficial reptiles that you can have on your property. Eveything in nature has its place. I agree with the prior posts, kind of hard to believe that grown men would fuss over something that is actually providing a free service for them. Just ignore them and enjoy the adrenaline rush when you happen upon them unexpectedly. Learn all you can about them; they are fascinating! Just my $.02 worth.
Jerry

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Bruce (VA)

05-23-2006 10:49:17




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
You are going to find it cheaper, easier & safer to get rid of what the snake is eating than to get rid of the snake. First, if you just have to kill the snake inside, get a CO2 fire extingusher. Freezes them solid. Next, get rid of all the grain, etc, you have around the place, as in bird feeders. They attract mice, which attract snakes. Get a cat to kill the mice (I'd rather have the snake than a cat, but that's just me....) I'm not aware of anything you are going to buy as in mothballs, etc, that is going to keep a snake away. You should also figure out what variety of snake you have. Around my place, we have blacksnakes, greensnakes, garter snakes, etc, etc, all of them non-poisionous. They get to live. Copperheads die.

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Larry 8N75381

05-23-2006 16:33:02




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Bruce (VA), 05-23-2006 10:49:17  
Bruce, I agree with you.

I have not seen a cat yet that can go into a mouse hole. BUT, a snake can! And they will get the babies in the nest. By the time the mice get big enough for them to be out where a cat can catch them they may already have had more babies.

I have not caught him at it, but if I do the neighbos cat is DEAD! I know he has killed my black snakes because one of the neighbors kids told me he had killed one.

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Barry in mi

05-23-2006 10:08:34




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
Do a web search for snakes but my guess is it's a garder snake or also know as a ribbon snake, non poisonous . It's a shame folks ignorance fuels the fear that drives them to kill something they don't understand. Snakes are very useful in controlling all kinds of vermin and I wish that folks just didn't make a "blanket" attitude toward them and have a need to destroy them.
Barry



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Bob Jones

05-23-2006 09:53:13




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
Ya'll is embarassing me. I never seen so many grown men afraid of snakes. It's a shame I tell you.



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Ole Country Boy

05-23-2006 09:30:04




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
All good advice guys,,, Seriously snakes in general don't bother me, UNTILL they move into my area. Out in the wild I leave them be, in my barn... nope, that is MY area. Ultradog,, Jeeze fellow I could have gone alday without that picture! :-)

I will call the county extension agent and see if they got any ideas. I don't want to kill them really, just get them run out of my barn/shop. They can go stay down in the creek out in front or the back fields and woods and we will all be happier.

This warm winter we had and this nice damp spring, up till now, must have been good weather for them.

Short side note, when we bought this place with th e barn on it, the former owner raised boas in the one concrete room. I am talking BIG boas!! When we cleaned it out there must have been pounds of snake skins from those things. Wife to this day still has a problem going in that room.

Thanks guys,, back to work!!

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Ratface

05-23-2006 09:18:33




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
Where are you located? I'd be willing to bet you got pine golpher snakes by your description. They have nasty teeth, barbed like a hook but are not poisonus. They also shake their tails just like a rattler. Kill one and examine it. Eye slits should be horizantal and not vertical. Vertical slits you got a pit viper. National autobon book on snakes has color photos and habitats. good book. I got these guys everywhere. I have to climb past them to get in my well pit. I just killed the one for close up verification. I now leave them alone and they eat the mice.

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chris cogburn

05-23-2006 08:41:50




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
Buy a book about identifying snakes, read up on it with the missus, then figure out what kind of snakes you've got. Most snakes are like most spiders; harmless to humans but deadly to pests. Snakes will keep your rodent population in check, and spiders (and wasps) will make a dent in the pest insect population. I leave 'em all alone unless they've made a nest in a particularly inconvenient spot.
Once we had a garden spider set up shop at the entrance to our pole shed. She got bigger and bigger for about three months; her web was a thing of beauty, and had a pile of wrapped carcasses beneath it. I'd tap one support leg of the web and she'd bounce on it like a trampoline; very cool. Eventually she took off, probably to lay eggs somewhere.

c.

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kraigWY

05-23-2006 07:54:52




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
want to get rid of snakes, turn a couple pigs loose in your barn, Pigs like snakes, snakes dont like snakes. They will rid you of your snake problem pretty quick.



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old

05-23-2006 07:41:20




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 Re: OT,, Snake removal? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
Remember not all snakes are bad and depending on where you are it can be a big fine to kill them. Check with your local conservation dept. Most states are set up to have some one help with animal problems. Here in Missouri theres a few snakes that can cost you $10,000 for killing one. Learn to idenify the snakes in your area, if is really a big help in the long run. From what your saying but with out seeing it that snakes sounds like its a king snake which is a very good snake to have around since it kills the snakes that you don't want around like the copperhead or rattle snake. And here in Missouri the king snake is one that if catght killing will cost you $10,000

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Ultradog MN

05-23-2006 07:28:57




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 did you see this? in reply to Ole Country Boy, 05-23-2006 07:13:32  
Link

Gives me the willys just thinking about it



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They had a problem !

05-23-2006 09:12:42




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 Re: did you see this? in reply to Ultradog MN, 05-23-2006 07:28:57  
AND it was NOT the snakes ! ! With that MANY snakes in ONE place there had to be a LOT of vermine (RATS and mice) to feed them. It would not surprise me to find that they had a lot more rats just after they killed all tose snakes ! ! !



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