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- Shropshire
What kind of snakes would they be Roy ?
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- Thread starter Farmer Roy
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- NSW, Newstralya
dont know, but I’m guessing they were probably carpet snake ( python )
doesn’t mean there were 30 or more snakes in the roof - they do shed their skins frequently. Could just mean there was only one there for a long time . . .
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- Shropshire
Ah makes sense handy thing to have around for bit of pest control then
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
..... getting SO fat on all the mice it has to keep shedding skins
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- Fingringhoe
@Farmer Roy I've never handled sloughed snake skin - what is it like, loo paper or parchment, does it crumble to pieces if handled?
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
It’s really soft & delicate, quite fragile, but doesn’t “crumble” as such . . .
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
im not saying it was a carpet snake, but if it was, they are better than cats for rodent control & are harmless enough
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
More like soft tissue paper.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
I hated long division.......I'm a good adder though....
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- NSW, Newstralya
Not my photo, but mice damage to newly planted crop. Yes, mouse bait was spread at the same time . . .
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Is it possible to fallow your way out of danger, or is there just too much alternative food for that to work, given the time slot you have to work within.
We have heaps of them here too but hardly a plague, just the product of having a heap of grass when there is little of it about. We have a cat who is a good hunter, this morning she had 23 dead mice on the driveway which is a new PB
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
I get quite a bit of mouse damage on my apples while they are still on the tree, nothing more than natural population levels so plagues would be a complete disaster.
Had a surprising amount of voles over the last 12 months, anything you move has a load of them underneath. Haven't really done what you could call damage but they have taken bark off young apple trees and they have almost completely stripped it off the hedge in front of my house.
I'm surprised there are so many because there are plenty of owls, cats, birds of prey etc around here, and snakes for that matter.
Had a surprising amount of voles over the last 12 months, anything you move has a load of them underneath. Haven't really done what you could call damage but they have taken bark off young apple trees and they have almost completely stripped it off the hedge in front of my house.
I'm surprised there are so many because there are plenty of owls, cats, birds of prey etc around here, and snakes for that matter.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Drought declaration extended to Otago
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missed the memo
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Beautiful old shed there , is it an old grain shed ?
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
naah, a wool shed
for shearing sheep, & storing wool bales
Windy Station was originally an AA Co ( google it ) place, one of the very first areas “settled” by white fellas in this part of the world, in the early / mid 1800’s
now a “family” owned property, of about 20,000 hectares. About half cropping, half beef
Originally it was much larger and it would have ALL been sheep. Didn’t start cropping this country till the 1960’s / 70’s