Snake skin

Paul Shuler · Jul 6, 2016

This spring I had quite the mouse problem in my barn. They had gotten into my old 64 Ford truck and made an awful mess. I put out the standard traps and such and I caught a few then like magic no more mice. Fast forward a month or so. I went out to get the Farmall H out to do some mowing in the cool of the day { it was only 97} and found this skin laying in the floor. Just how it laid it measured 5'6". Hum, guess it may not have been my mouse traps that got rid of the mice after all.LOL. My wife said that will be her last time to the barn. Who knows that may be a good thing.

old · Jul 6, 2016

Have one of those out in the tack house. Funny thing is the boy saw a rat the other day not 2 foot from the snake skin

Jiles · Jul 6, 2016

Billy--Don't know where you live, but in my area of NW Alabama, we only have four venomous snakes.
Rattlesnake, Cottonmouth, Copperhead, and Coral Snake.
Rarely does any of these get that long but, through research, I discovered how to identify the snake skin.
The belly of the snake will have scaled across the full width.
Venomous snakes in my area, have the scales full width to the tip of the tail.
Non venomous will have broken (two scales) from anus to tip of tail.
Somewhat assuring when the skin is found in home or barn.

Dean · Jul 6, 2016

That's a big one.

FWIW: I've been told by classic car collectors that moth balls will keep the mice out of your classic car (or truck).

Dean

JMOR · Jul 6, 2016

(quoted from post at 13:26:28 07/06/16) That's a big one.

FWIW: I've been told by classic car collectors that moth balls will keep the mice out of your classic car (or truck).

Dean

...and they are sooo tiny, that no one will ever see them in your truck!

Jim Phelps · Jul 6, 2016

I worked one summer planting Soybeans for a friend, he worked days and would come in about 4 and take over for the last few hours eveyday. One morning I opened up the cab door and there was a snake skin behind the seat, I thought Randy was pulling a prank, so I started her up and I planted all day. That day around 4 Randy pulls up so I shut her down and he crawls up in the cab and yells at me "hey that was not funny" I looked at him and said "I thought you put that in there to scare me" he was out of that cab laying on the ground in about 1/10th of a second. Never did see that snake.

JerryS · Jul 6, 2016

That's a rat snake, black snake, or as we call 'em down here, chicken snake. Leave him be. He can't hurt you, though he can make you hurt yourself. I got bit by one a couple of years ago; no harm but a slight scratch.

Mark - IN. · Jul 6, 2016

I'm curious about a mouse that held a snake that big by the tail while another pulled it out of it's skin before they beat it up and ate it.

Mark

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