What sort of snake is this? (photo)

Nice little marcianus (checkered) there! Here's an albino morph:


We breed garters, and breed the granite morph of these. If you run across an albino one, we could use it for the breeding program, message me.

We only get the black snakes, and occaisionally a garter.

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Cyngbaeld's photo looks like a ribbon snake... close relation of a garter snake, similar food preferences but maybe a bit more likely to climb in brush, more slender.

Btw, rattlesnakes (and all of the other pit vipers in the US) are born alive rather than hatched from laid eggs. Technically, the adult retains the egg in a modified form with it hatching internally or right after "laid" in a thin membrane, but for all appearances it's a live birth. If you see a separate egg with a leathery shell hatching, it wouldn't be a pit viper here in the US.

Looks like a checkered garter snake, for sure.

http://www.austinreptileservice.net/stripes.html

If I was ever to get that close to snap pictures as these I would also have a firearm on me and None would be living after that. Not one.

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Hm. How would you feel if somebody said they thought horses were so dangerous they'd immediately shoot any they saw on their property?

I understand your attitude....believe me! It takes a while to get used to the idea of a 'good' snake. I admit, they still give me the heebie-jeebies, but I've learned to leave the beneficial ones alone.

But garter snakes really are beneficial in controlling the mice and frog populations.

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google search, there are approximately 219 deaths of humans per year directly related to horses
in the U.S. of A. -vs- only 5 deaths caused by poisonous snakes!!! From now on, I'm carrying a .45 with me,
each and every time I go riding.....if I so much as even see a snake.....I'm shooting the horse!!!

Can't be too careful can we???

Depends. Is the horse roaming loose on their property? Crawling in under the door? Dropping on their heads from beams in outbuildings?

That's the beauty of being a human with opposable thumbs- if you find something offensive and/or threatening on your property and it's not federally protected (unless you possess a good woodchipper and some hawgs) then you can shoot it fulla holes.

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through a 'chipper. Not to mention that it can ruin a good chipper......

And hogs can actually get tired of too much horse meat.




I'm done now before someone brings out the tar & feathers.......

That's just sad.
Why kill something that benefits you?

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I was thinkin' more along the line of peoples, not horses, buuuut

Waitaminnut- whar'd you get them feathers, Missy?@!?!?>! lol

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found one just like it yesterday out by the greenhouse under some lumber! Beautiful!

They eat only small fish, worms, slugs..an occasional small mouse but not much else. Why kill them?

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We have lots of worm snakes here. Fun when you're digging through the soil with your hands and come up with a snake.

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The photo looks like a self-setting rolling mouse trap to me. Non-venomous snakes are more than welcome at my place. They pay their way.