Quote Originally Posted by 771subliminal View Post
150 goats and only one has been bit, and im willing to bet that you havnt gone around and killed off all the hots that are on or near your land?

you know animals are not as dumb as you may think they are, birds dont eat some butterflies cuz they know them to be poisonous and rattlesnakes dont have rattles because of humans its for all animals and it seems to have worked so far. nature works till we screw it up.

how man ranchers live in areas where there are venomous snakes and have thousands of livestock and lose few to none due to snake bites?

i know my uncle has ran several cattle farms for 40+ years and has never said anything about losing a animal to a snake bite and believe me when i say if it happened you would hear about it cuz he never stops talking about his cattle.
As I mentioned, I'm on 80 acres and have only killed the hots up near the house. It'd be impossible to go and kill off all the hots. While animals might not be dumb, they are overly curious. I've had many animals get injured due to how curious they are. Additionally, cattle are much different than goats. Size, for one example.

The average weight of a cow is 1400. The average weight of a goat is say..120. The cow is about 12 times heavier than the goat, meaning the venom will be diluted. I once had a 1200 pound horse get bit by a snake. Other than localized swelling, she was fine. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I had a 60 pound goat get bit who ended up losing some muscle function after being bit.

I'd also hazard a guess that you're uncle doesn't have five ponds near/on his property and a large network of creeks like I do (I have three ponds on the property, two that are about 100 meters apart with a third that's about a quarter mile away. On either side of the property, you can hop a fence and find two more ponds. Crisscrossed over the east and south part of the property are numerous creeks..In short: prime cottonmouth territory).