Just the opposite with me, while I feel OK with snakes, their soft and cool and smooth skin I do not do well with big hairy spiders, hell NOmodern_pioneer said:Snake stew?Belt?
Now there is just a small handful of critters that give me the willies, I can handle eight legged things, varmints of any kind, anything that flies, but those snakes give me the willies.
On the farm the old well pump was set into a concrete block 4 foot square with a metal lid on top, in the summer in would always be full of all sorts of snakes. If the breaker blew inside, we'd lift the lid with a tool handle. Often times there would be so many snakes that when we did lift the big lid off we would kill one or two, there were just that many.
we have a couple of native snakes around here in Poland living on the farm plains they are not poisonous so I got used to snakes, then some friends had snakes. I am sure that when I will one day I hope be on a farm, I will also have a snake or maybe even multiple to make the life cycle a whole, to give to them any unhatched eggs (not the stinkers of course) any rabbits that are born dead. It actually will save me some money, couse according to regulation, drop-dead farm animals are a waste and as such, should be taken to processing plants, but little to no one does that with the small critters It aint that easy with pigs/sheep/cows couse they have to be registered no later then at the age of 6 months, from that point on they monitor what you do and how you deal with possible drop dead, where you butcher (couse you have to own a according to regulation butcher room to be allowed to market meat killed at your place). I did some reaserch and turn out, you can feed them to a snake, but a woman at the department was not sure if you had to be considered a breeder which means a pair of snakes, or just a pet snake.
I hate waiting - checked doe before I left for work this morning still no babies 
kits - right I'm so used to saying babiesTanksHill said:
. DH & I were sitting on the porch this morning and he looked down and said you have a chicken in the yard - huh?? So I jump up and look and I have a dead hen in the yard. $HIT!!! Grab my mud boots get the dead hen up and go out to the pen - there are feathers all around inside the pen and another dead hen inside (the dead hen inside was one that I intended to cull when we did the meaties but didn't). Walked all the way around the run and found where something - I'm thinkin a coon - had pushed his way in. The run is built out of 2 x 4 welded wire that I got from tearing down my Dad's old hunting dog pen so it's good wire. I guess today will be securing my runs - now that something has found them I'm sure it will be back! The run that the waterfowl and rabbits are in isn't nearly as strong as this pen and now I'm worried about them. Not the way I wanted to start/spend my Saturday!
The buck I had gotten apparently had something wrong with him he died last weekend - thankfully I did not have him out there with the does yet so he couldn't pass on anything to them. Now I'm on the hunt for a buck 
