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injured milk in the wild (a few Q's)

goregrind Aug 13, 2007 05:09 AM

im a heavy equipment operator so its inevitable that im going to injure snakes, but i always feel horrible about it.

on friday my granfather (family bussiness) was digging up a top soil pile and uncovered an eastern milk, it immedietly started burrowing back into the soil. by the time i got there just the tail was showing and it was immitating a rattler, which scared the crap out of my grandfather.

i dug it out by hand and as i was feeling for broken ribs i notice an unusualy hard lump(s) it was only two feet so it couldnt be gravid ( could it?) the only injury i found was a messed up jaw. while handling it the whole top half of the snake flopped down and what looked like unkooked egg whites came out of its mouth, it was foung two feet from a batch of turtle eggs, could it have eaten one or was this liquid bad?
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jake

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Replies (1)

djs27 Aug 13, 2007 09:37 AM

I didn't think eastern milks were big egg eaters. I suppose it is possible though...

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