Snakes (Hinton: yard, dental, business)

[HomersBoy]

Originally Posted by red.ochre

pigs eat rattlesnakes

LOL.........Pigs will eat any kind of snake, bird or anything that gets too close. Occasionally Dad would feed our pigs a lump of coal . He said it was for some kind of parasite. I know they would munch away on it.

[David Kennedy]

Those rattles can and do break off. They are a indicator of skin shedding. And the timber rattlers are truely beautiful.
I stopped my car on one one time in Pendleton County and got out and killed it...I still feel bad about doing that.
He was going towards the river for some lunch. I could see the underbody markings of white at a great distance and knew he was a rattler.

In the early days of pioneer Wv, farmers would brand their hogs and let them loose to roam the woodlands.
They lived on snakes and acorns until harvested in the fall.

[Newtgirl]

Like DK says, rattle segments are no indication of age. I've seen tiny snakes with huge rattles, and huge snakes with no rattles. Nor is tail length. Females have short tails. Males have longer tails.

[David Kennedy]

Why do I think this 'Thread is going Nowhere in a hurry?

Please, Snorpus...No Latin!

[atlantagreg30127]

People afraid of teenie little snakes in their yards. GEESH, folks.

You want snakes? Come to Georgia... WE have yard snakes....




P.S.... Rattlesnakes don't always rattle - even when the rattles are fully intact. Don't count on that when walking in woods/brush.

My Sister lives over near Dupont, and they have seen Copperheads over there, though nothing else. I think my Mother says in Dunbar someone found a Copperhead in a yard next to the street she lives on, too. Can't remember details, though. So in terms of poisonous snakes, the Copperhead seems to be the most common in the area.

[GottaHerdOn]

Originally Posted by Newtgirl

Like DK says, rattle segments are no indication of age. I've seen tiny snakes with huge rattles, and huge snakes with no rattles. Nor is tail length. Females have short tails. Males have longer tails.

Yes, but I've always been told they fall off every year then they grow back the next year and the rattler gets one segment longer. Sort of like antlers on deer?

[Newtgirl]

That's a burmese python. That's not a native.

And GHO, that's not true. It's really variable. They grow one segment longer every time the snake sheds, and break off randomly. It does not have anything to do with age or size.

[David Kennedy]

She's a homey now, GHO...got her attitude!

Glad you are back home in the safe confines of Finals...go gettem!

[atlantagreg30127]

Originally Posted by Newtgirl

That's a burmese python. That's not a native.

No, they're not native, but they are now numerous in South Georgia in the swamp areas because of folks having put them there years ago (along with other critters). Hey, if I ever saw one of those in my yard I don't CARE where they originally came from. LOL

Didn't Copperheads originally come from overseas in the early 1800s, or am I thinking of something else?

[GottaHerdOn]

Originally Posted by David Kennedy

She's a homey now, GHO...got her attitude!

Glad you are back home in the safe confines of Finals...go gettem!

Yep, I was in Elkins for about a week and a half with my family and friends there, and my best friend came in from Jersey and I basically hung out with her the whole time... and finished up my finals online.

Now I'm back in Huntington taking my summer classes.... I'm starting to get sick of constant school