Farm Life

Red, thanks for offering us this episode. Plus, I'm glad your raising hens and chicks. They can do it better than an incubator. Having chicks and chickens, growing them into layers is a challenge with snakes around. We had a big 5' snake like this one visit our hen house in the middle of the day last year a couple times. My wife would here them sound off with their warning cackling and she'd go investigate and find him with an egg in his mouth. She would pen him down and wrestle the egg out and remove him with a shovel. Finally he didn't come back. They know where the food is and will take advantage of an easy meal. DM
 
Glad the snake is not killed as they eat harmful pests. However, a poisonous snake close to home would be dead meat as far as I am concerned.
 
DocT said:
Glad the snake is not killed as they eat harmful pests. However, a poisonous snake close to home would be dead meat as far as I am concerned.
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they also eat his small birds and eggs.

yep it is snake season. saw two rat snakes in the backyard going after lizards already. normally i put them down but as the citrus rats have gotten a bit out of control this year in the jungle around me.......im gonna let nature run its course even though i hate snakes.
 
Hawkeye, thanks. Hope your catching some Crappie out your way.
Doc & jbm, thanks for this note. I try to let non-poisonous snakes go about their lives and live near us. The poisonous snakes have cost us a lot of money and endangered lives. So, I draw the line with them. Still, hawks, owls, fox, coyotes and others don't discriminate. They'll gladly live off what I leave. Just the pattern of nature. DM
 
We've been meaning to cut some of these limbs away from our road. As they are scraping on vehicles. I'm using my Saw Buck, the one Buck mfg. in the 80's. It works great for trimming jobs like this. DM
 
After cutting any type of cedar or pine trees you need to clean the teeth off. Removing the sap stuck to them or the tool won't cut well at the next usage. Here I'm using a wire brush and kerosene.
It works at removing sticky sap like this off my Buck saw. DM
 
DM, thanks for the tip about cleaning the sap off teeth of the saw. I definitely didn't know that. We've got a couple of saws where that stuff is caked on, I never ventured to think that it was hindering the performance though.
 
Thanks for that tip about the sap David. I didn't know that either.

I like how you have a Buck product for a lot of situations and actually use them. The Saw Buck is a great example.
 
Thanks for that tip David. I did not know that either.

I enjoy how you have a lot of Buck products and use them for various tasks. The Saw Buck is a great example.
 
155440 & Gedd, your welcome. Just try it and see if your tool will cut better next time. DM
 
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I keep this live trap set in our wood barn with no bait just against the wall. It surprises me how they run the perimeter and into the trap. This morning when I checked it I found a rattler in it. DM
 
Dang, what a photo, David! Curious, how many snakes do you encounter on your property in a year?
 
Usually 4-5 rattlers is normal for us each year. If you include Bull snakes, Green racers, ect. all snakes. Then double that number. DM
 
man o man.....what kind is that a western, mojave, one kf the others types? y'all have more than a handful of rattlers out there dont ya, Sir? we got two kinds. pygmy and easterns. cant stand either one...luckily dont run into too many. run into many more cottonmouths than any other pit viper. i highly dislike these snakes. if you spook it and are between it and the water guess which way it heads towards.
 
I don't get as much Farm Life in as I'd like but here's some from a few weeks ago. Cheers to keeping this thread going forever like a good ol F250. SS

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Skyler, thank you. A F250, sponges, a logger head turtle and I can't tell what that is that perished in the slough. As a boy, I grew up on logger head turtles. They are a light colored meat and not bad tasting. I liked bullfrogs better. But Crappie were my favorite. Thanks for these pictures.
DM
 
It was a cow. Don't know which I like better: turtle, crappie, frog legs or mushrooms. I could eat them every day and ask for more. I let him go on his way as I was more concerned with morels.
 
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