Thread: 1 load of homemade snake shot took care of business
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Old 09-14-2017, 10:08 PM
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What species is the one you dispatched?
That is a harmless Rat Snake that eats rats and mice. Unfortunately--that's not all the Rat snake likes to eat--as the OP alreday knows "Farmers who raise chickens may consider the Ratsnake to be a true pest (since nothing is tastier for a Ratsnake than baby chickens and chicken eggs)."

Herps of Arkansas: Western Ratsnake (Pantherophis obsoletus)
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