Far right is our house and chicken house... far left is a giant bull snake.
The kids came running inside this evening and yelled that they saw a big snake. We all ran outside with Julien leading the way. 20 feet from our house was the bull snake and he wasn't happy that we came close to him.
Check out the bulge in his middle. I am guessing that he had just ate an egg fresh from our chickens. We stood and watched the snake for a while and tried to scare it away. He tried to scare us away by making a rattle sound with his mouth, striking in our direction, and making himself look big and scary. We won't kill or hurt a bull snake because they are basically harmless. We have heard that bull snakes keep rattle snakes away; not because they eat them but because they are bigger and better hunters. The bull snakes get all the good food first so the rattle snakes stay away. So we want the bull snake to stay around but not quite so close. My family ended up carrying him across the road with the broom. I bet he will back for more farm fresh eggs!
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