Texas Gardening: Snake, what kind do you think?, 1 by kenboy

kenboy wrote:
I love the coral snake, it is soo beautiful. I caught one some years back for my friend who keeps poison snakes but it did not live but a few weeks. They are so small it is hard for them to bite you but if they do, ouch. Copperheads will just strike at anything. Years ago I worked at a peacock farm, 1,200 of them, and one evening I was cleaned up and heading out to dinner. I went to the bird pens first to gather eggs and we had one pen that had a box for a nest. I did not want to put my nees in the grass so I got down like I was doing a one arm pushup and reached in the box for the egg. I saw something right in frount of my face but it was so close I could not make it out. It was a copperhead. Two minuets later I thought I was going to have a heart attack. We are now going to pen our chickens up because they do so much damage to the plants on the benches and I am afraid that the bug and snakes will be on the increase.