Subject: Re: [RC] "I can't get the snakes
out of my pasture."
King snakes are about the best thing you can have to control
pit viper populations, be it rattle snakes or copperheads. We used to
catch them - easy to do - if we saw them and bring them back to the
house and put them around the stable, corn cribs, hay barn, etc. and when
you have a few of them around, you have no more problem with vipers. They
seem to like it there and grew to amazing size because of the easy picking
for food. Black snakes work well to but black snakes are a bit nasty
themselves. The king snake is very mild mannered with humans but is a
killing machine when it comes to pit vipers.
Truman
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swigart wrote:
>Ray O'Donohue rno2m@xxxxxxxxxxxx said: >
> >I DO like the King snakes because they help control both the
rodent >population and the rattlesnake population; but I see them
significantly less >often than Ido the rattlesnakes. Too bad I
don't have a den of them around >:). > >kat >Orange
County, Calif. > > >
>
