The chickens had a visitor...

Uh OH!!

The chickens had company today...I went outside this evening to get the eggs and when I pulled the nesting box out I was like hmmm, why one egg? Then I looked over and said Ahhh now I see why? The old timers call them chicken snakes...the books call them Texas rat snakes! We knew we'd get them, it's inevitable when you have chickens and it happened...and yes Dawn I think this may be the one, lol...no further comments Dawn!

I went and got Fred, he got the gun and I got the camera! LOL...I'm too funny but I have to get photos!!

Isn't he beautiful? He was about 4 feet long.

And not too upset with us either...of course he had a full belly, sigh! I really didn't want to kill him. He's harmless other than eating eggs but we really didn't have a choice...I need to get some snake pinchers so I can capture these little darlings and take them far far away...But after my photo session Fred scooted him out of the coop with a stick and then attempted to shoot him, ekk...He missed! We spent the next 3o minutes searching and finally found him again...Fred gave me the gun and I swiftly took care of him...I let Michael study and touch him. Michael was like me and a bit upset we had to kill this one, as they are good snakes...I'm going to start looking for a pair of snake pinchers...That was our excitement for the evening...

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If you live in Texas you will have snakes it's part of life here, you just learn to deal with it...or at least I have :o)