Snakes in my hay!

I had a bale that hissed when I moved it. It took me a couple of goes at moving it to realise that it wasn't a coincidence. A snake had taken up home in it.
 
I'm wondering slow worm too... but I do NOT envy you that find! Mummified rats are the most I've ever had. What's the scale on the ones you found? I can't work out if they're taken close up or are actually a reasonable size!

I shouldn't have googled "poisonous animals in Texas" the other week. I now know they have 11 types of rattlesnake, which is 12 types too many! I then googled "how common are snakes in Houston?" (where I'll be for 3-4 months). It turns out either really common or not at all...thanks!

Morbid curiosity...ignorance is bliss... etc! :p
 
Too big for slow worm and very scaly. I think it was a nest that got caught up in the combine and then they could nt get out and died a horrible death! Quite a few of them. I had a handful of them!
 
hnmisty said:
I'm wondering slow worm too... but I do NOT envy you that find! Mummified rats are the most I've ever had. What's the scale on the ones you found? I can't work out if they're taken close up or are actually a reasonable size!

I shouldn't have googled "poisonous animals in Texas" the other week. I now know they have 11 types of rattlesnake, which is 12 types too many! I then googled "how common are snakes in Houston?" (where I'll be for 3-4 months). It turns out either really common or not at all...thanks!

Morbid curiosity...ignorance is bliss... etc! :p
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I wonder if grass snake? About the length of a newspaper if I was able to un ravel but they were stiff as a board
 
Not in, but sitting on - very big huntsman spider
Poor boy didnt' get his hay until later when I could find someone brave enough to get the spider off and give it to him
Kx
 
It's the one and only thing I couldn't cope with. Snakes terrify me, dead ones more than alive ones. I should have known better than to open this. I will be so worried by every bale I get now.

I had various parts of a seagull in mine last night.
 
I'd have run screaming too. Not quite the same, but I'd soaked my hay and left it to drain. Went to take it out of the net a bit later, and there was a huge frog sitting on it, that I didn't see and nearly picked up! Screamed and ran then too lol. Thank goodness there were some other people on the yard to rescue me, sorry, the frog.
 
That would have freaked me out even though I don't mind snakes. Worst I've had were baled rabbits though a friend had the misfortune of finding half a Jack Russell in a bale once, complete with collar :(
 
I too would be advertising my horse- I will let my daughter do nets tonight I think!

Last summer I was tacking up a youngster at work- he was only just having a saddle on so taking it all very quietly until a snake popped its head out of a hole in the saddle pad! Traumatised! The horse played it very cool thank god and was not effected my the weirdo attempting to tack him up!
The bit that worried me was that that saddle pad had been hanging above my head whilst we had coffee that morning in the tack room :(
 
Eew!

Last summer we found a headless slow worm on drive way.
My cat had enjoyed a chew on it.
But weirdly, the belly was open and lots of babies were handing out and some looked as though they had tried to slither sway.
 
We have grass snakes in our compost heap. They like the heat and lay their eggs in the base. Last summer they used the pond to cool down before settling down on the rocks around the edge. Unfortunately we never get frogs now as they eat all the spawn and I have an inkling they are taking some of the smaller fish.

Never found any dead ones though and we haven't been able to move the compost for 2 years now. Good thing we have manure on tap.
 
It's this time of year again where I'm chucking straw around for the lambs and ewes, I always wear gloves as I'm constantly dreading putting my hands in the bale and pulling out a dead rat or a bunny that's been through the baler, bleurghhhhh!
 
Euurggh, this thread has sent shivers down my spine. The worse thing I have found was the whole hind leg of a deer. I was then always dreading opening up the other bales just in case I discovered the rest of it.
 
We found half an adder in a small bale of hay when collecting in from the field. It was interesting because NThad done a survey on the moor next to our land and concluded they were no adders there. Prior to that we had often seen marks that looked like a snake movement but were not sure.
 
Whenever I look at this thread title I think of "Snakes on a Plane".

At old riding school where I worked we found a few dead mice in the bales. Other than that, everything else was found between the bales! Once found a completely squished flat fox. Never figured out exactly HOW he got so squished flat as he was between bales. Wonder if they weren't stacked very well and it fell on him.

Not in the hay but yard where I worked used to roll their own barley. The had 2 massive bins where they would keep it and as young helpers (before H&S went nuts) we used to get sent over to fill up old sacks of the unrolled stuff to take to the feed room for rolling. The bins were massive so we used to take our boots off and get in them. While bagging up I once found a big bird claw (like from an owl). I didn't stick around to see if I'd find the rest of the bird!
 
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