Saw a big rattler

[gordyzx9r]

in south fl the hogs are getting out of control. i've only seen a few snakes. think its the coral snake?

Yeah, the hogs are out of control here in AL too...I'm surprised they don't have a bounty on them yet for all the damage they've done.

[Charlief1]

in south fl the hogs are getting out of control. i've only seen a few snakes. think its the coral snake?

Yeah, the hogs are out of control here in AL too...I'm surprised they don't have a bounty on them yet for all the damage they've done.

Hogs are no joke. Hill county where I live, hired a chopper and a shoote this year and in 1 week he killed 329 in one day. We've had a 350 lb hog taken off the property this last fall but haven't seen any more since then, thank God. :supz:

[TSM Girl]

Yikes! Those pictures are amazing! I know that we have all kinds of snakes around here, thank heavens that I have not came across one yet. I have seen them dead in the road but nothing in our yard. Our neighbor has told us that they have seen them in their yard and they put "moth balls" around their yard. Not sure if that really works. Most people around here says it does.

[Steve Wood]

they sell a commercial snake repellant that is similar to moth balls...suppos edly works on pit vipers like the rattler...I have an acre fenced off around the house so that takes a lot.  My Boston survived a bite in the face but lost an eye.  Nights are the worst as it warms up.  I fear every night when I take the dogs out that they will jump one.

[TSM Girl]

I do not think we have pit vipers (never seen one) I have been told we have rattles, Black, corn and water. I am more freaked on the snake that our neighbor told us about that chases you. I think they called it a "black" something. They move real quick. Our neighbor said when she was a child, she was chased by one father was cutting grass with his tractor and caught up to it ran it over. Creeps me out thinking about it.  

[Steve Wood]

the rattler is a pit viper and so are copperheads and water moccasins.  Something about the fumes of the moth balls reportedly confuses the navigation of the snakes by interfering with the sensory function of the "pits"

Rattlers are not normally very aggessive.  Copperheads and the Moccasins are.

Some of the non venomous snakes can be pretty aggressive when annoyed.  We have so many names, coachwhips, black runners, etc that it is hard to know which is which due to the local names.

[firebird_1252]

too much to worry about down south.

[TSM Girl]

the rattler is a pit viper and so are copperheads and water moccasins.

[gbsean]

never knew they grew that big,,,,

[tb3]

the only good snake is a dead snake.  I've ran over at least 2 in my day