Rattlesnake Vaccine? - Page 2

Big Norm · 10-19-2005, 01:17 AM

Geez, I'm staying in Michigan!!!! We ain't got no snakes here except for a few politicians. While I was in Kentucky for a couple of years working for Chrysler, the guys there told me that it was great sport to grab a black snake by the tail and whip its head off. Just make sure that it is a slow moving black snake and not a faster cotton mouth. I had to be careful during the rainy season in Kentucky. Lots of flooded areas there and the snakes tend to crawl on peoples pourches until the water goes away.

When I was in Oklahoma in the army, I saw a big snake slither out from under a log in a creek. I couldn't tell what it was because I was looking over my shoulders and running like hell. Actually, I didn't waste time looking over my shoulders. But this did break me of my habit of jogging during the early evening.
Big Norm

Hugh · 10-19-2005, 02:11 AM

When I was in college we took a geology field trip to Batesville Ark one summer to learn how to map geologic formations. It involved a lot of hiking through the woods looking for different outcrops. There was one particular area where we followed a dry creek bed up a mountain. It seemed that there was a Copperhead about every ten steps all the way up that mountain! I think the class of 10 counted over 150 total Copperheads that day. Sure glad they aren't aggressive by nature. After jumping out of our skins over the first few, we finally just carefully stepped around them and kept going!

G.W. Gill · 10-19-2005, 02:54 AM

My Wife has never asked about the hoe handles I have leaning against the stairs to our front and back porch. I have the funny yard ornaments and such. Bird bath and front and back picnic set ect. Pin wheels galore even. If she knew the real reason..... A guy thing.

Norm, come on down. I'll spot you as you sight in and visa versa. We will buy our meat at Winn-Dixie. Maybe. Everyone, Ya all come too....:

I am very proud of the front /left 25% as a junior high kid cuts across there. I pulled sand spurrs up by the roots and poisened all along the track. I pulled the sand spurrs up out of most of the property and after 2 1/2 yrs am amazed. Little ones instead of great big crop.!!! Killed 3 hog nose as they pretend they are rattler. Enough of my yard, I have finally grown my driveway with grass. With the two tracks.

The kids some times run because of the snakes sunning themselves.

Rod WMG · 10-19-2005, 01:32 PM

Speaking of hoe handles...

When I was a boy there were lots of rattlers. One night there was a commotion out at the hen house. Daddy thought it was a fox, but it was a rattler. When he went to kill it with a hoe, the snake struck the handle. Daddy killed the snake and went back to bed.

When we awoke the next morning we found the hoe handle had swelled into a huge log! Being frugal, my dad took it to town and had it sawn into lumber. Then he built a new hen housewith that.

A couple of nights later, another commotion outside. Again, he investigated. Seems there had been a shower earlier and the rain washed all the poison out of the wood which shrank back to its original size and squeezed every hen to death. Lots of squawking, I'll tell you.

G.W. Gill · 10-20-2005, 02:05 AM

Oh Boy, I liked that story. Back to the vaccine. I searched it on the web and decided I will give it to the dogs on the next checkup and shot visit. Thanks for the stories.

10-19-2005, 02:11 AM	#22
Hugh RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Southeast Texas Swamp Posts: 2,460 Thanks: 2 Thanked 165 Times in 64 Posts	When I was in college we took a geology field trip to Batesville Ark one summer to learn how to map geologic formations. It involved a lot of hiking through the woods looking for different outcrops. There was one particular area where we followed a dry creek bed up a mountain. It seemed that there was a Copperhead about every ten steps all the way up that mountain! I think the class of 10 counted over 150 total Copperheads that day. Sure glad they aren't aggressive by nature. After jumping out of our skins over the first few, we finally just carefully stepped around them and kept going! __________________ *TRUMP FOR PREZ IN '20!*

10-19-2005, 01:17 AM	#21
Big Norm RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: SE Michigan Posts: 1,864 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	Geez, I'm staying in Michigan!!!! We ain't got no snakes here except for a few politicians. While I was in Kentucky for a couple of years working for Chrysler, the guys there told me that it was great sport to grab a black snake by the tail and whip its head off. Just make sure that it is a slow moving black snake and not a faster cotton mouth. I had to be careful during the rainy season in Kentucky. Lots of flooded areas there and the snakes tend to crawl on peoples pourches until the water goes away. When I was in Oklahoma in the army, I saw a big snake slither out from under a log in a creek. I couldn't tell what it was because I was looking over my shoulders and running like hell. Actually, I didn't waste time looking over my shoulders. But this did break me of my habit of jogging during the early evening. Big Norm

10-19-2005, 02:54 AM	#23
G.W. Gill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Southeastern USA Posts: 369 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	My Wife has never asked about the hoe handles I have leaning against the stairs to our front and back porch. I have the funny yard ornaments and such. Bird bath and front and back picnic set ect. Pin wheels galore even. If she knew the real reason..... A guy thing. Norm, come on down. I'll spot you as you sight in and visa versa. We will buy our meat at Winn-Dixie. Maybe. Everyone, Ya all come too....: I am very proud of the front /left 25% as a junior high kid cuts across there. I pulled sand spurrs up by the roots and poisened all along the track. I pulled the sand spurrs up out of most of the property and after 2 1/2 yrs am amazed. Little ones instead of great big crop.!!! Killed 3 hog nose as they pretend they are rattler. Enough of my yard, I have finally grown my driveway with grass. With the two tracks. The kids some times run because of the snakes sunning themselves.

10-19-2005, 01:32 PM	#24
Rod WMG User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Edge of Texas Posts: 514 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Speaking of hoe handles... When I was a boy there were lots of rattlers. One night there was a commotion out at the hen house. Daddy thought it was a fox, but it was a rattler. When he went to kill it with a hoe, the snake struck the handle. Daddy killed the snake and went back to bed. When we awoke the next morning we found the hoe handle had swelled into a huge log! Being frugal, my dad took it to town and had it sawn into lumber. Then he built a new hen housewith that. A couple of nights later, another commotion outside. Again, he investigated. Seems there had been a shower earlier and the rain washed all the poison out of the wood which shrank back to its original size and squeezed every hen to death. Lots of squawking, I'll tell you.

10-20-2005, 02:05 AM	#25
G.W. Gill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Southeastern USA Posts: 369 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Oh Boy, I liked that story. Back to the vaccine. I searched it on the web and decided I will give it to the dogs on the next checkup and shot visit. Thanks for the stories.