When I worked at the Sycamore Ranch in New Mexico. I had to relocate a rattlesnake once. And it is really an easy job; you just scoop them up with a hand net. It is also safe if you are careful. But they grow big in Texas. I don’t know how I would have relocated this one: ( 9 Feet, 1 inch, 97 pounds)
They are supposed to be a good source of protein.
Recipe below
DEEP-FRIED RATTLESNAKE1 medium-sized rattlesnake (3-4 lbs.), cut into steaks
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup cracker crumbs
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (not garlic salt)
1 teaspoon salt
dash pepperMix dry ingredients. Whisk milk into beaten egg and use to dip snake steaks.
Then coat them with dry ingredients. Fry, uncovered, in 400 degree oil until brown.
This net is all you need (to relocate)
Clarification
Claim: Photograph above shows a 9-foot rattlesnake caught in Texas. (9 feet,
1 inch – 97 lbs.)
Status: Undetermined.
The proportions seem impossible. A nine foot snake weighing 97 pound would be ten pounds per foot and the appearance of the snake in the picture doesn’t seem to be that hefty. It also seems unlikely that the pole could support the weight and the man holding it could hoist 97 pounds so casually.
After some further investigation I found a page from a zoo that gives a formula for the length-weight relationship of rattlesnakes which states that a seven foot wild rattler would weigh about 15 pounds and an eight-foot snake would weigh 23 pounds. According to this formula nine-foot snake could not possibly weigh 97 pounds. Posted by google answers –czh-ga
Anyway, it is still quite a rattlesnake.
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