Snake oil?!

Snapper22 said:

Only garter snakes here but give them the benefit of the doubt. I hate rodents. Even birds of prey I try to help them out. Don’t have rats but muskrats I do and seeing them crawling out of the water gives me the willies thinking they’re a rat. Anything which kills rodents are good.

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This is quite a bit off topic of snakeoil, but when you talk about rodents control I actually think some of the things that kill mice are almost as bad as the mice themselves. I put skunks in this category as seems like every Fall I have a close call or bad experience with one or more of these at harvest time. I may have found an accidently good method for reducing the skunk population as noted this Spring just after seeding have found 3 dead skunks out in fields. It seemed a bit curious what was killing them, but noticed their proximity to some plugged opener checks of treated Barley and Peas and have to think that may be good skunk bait. I am sure it will not be too many more years before seed treatment will become as hated as gopher poison so probably should stock up.

phantom970 said:

They are huggers not biters 😁

I like to keep one in the tool box
You never know when you might need a snake to fix something 😂

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Nuke from orbit
Only way to be safe

phantom970 said:

They are huggers not biters 😁

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Reminds me of when I was in my 20's and had a pet Python. I named it "Monty" (of course) being the "clever" chap that I was at the time but my grandmother always called it "Julius squeezer", you know, being a "hugger" and all.

meritmat2 said:

Nuke from orbit
Only way to be safe

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gee Meritmat have you seen some of the fangs on them scary fish you like catching…………….

nuke the ocean I say then plough it up and grow corn in it

meritmat2 said:

No fangs just teeth and waaaaaayyy taster

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What are ya gunna do if you catch a sea snake?
Burn the ocean to the ground?

ricefarmer09 said:

These SOB's are pretty bad here. Cotton mouths are pretty common in the rice fields here. They are fairly aggressive and have short snake syndrome. They don't get much over 3 feet(.9144m for you non-SAE folks) but think they are 20 feet long and indestructible.

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Imagine that means you occasionally put one through harvesting?
Guess you wouldn’t even know if one went through, unlike for some grasshoppers I’m sure it would be fatal.

phantom970 said:

What are ya gunna do if you catch a sea snake?
Burn the ocean to the ground?

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Drain it)

Still amazes me how some hoppers can make through a combine undamaged…. I imagine even if they appear fine their nerves would be bad….

Yessir Don, every so often one will go through a machine but you can't tell it. Not big enough. If they become big enough to stop a machine I'm retiring.

ricefarmer09 said:

Yessir Don, every so often one will go through a machine but you can't tell it. Not big enough. If they become big enough to stop a machine I'm retiring.

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I’d retire from any area they would be in!