Quote Originally Posted by Raptor View Post
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).
you would be very wrong on that guess he also has several ponds and a couple creeks that go threw his property (well the one he lives at i havent been to all of the ones that he over sees) fished and swam in them all the time growing up and had quite a few run ins with hots as well.

Quote Originally Posted by Raptor View Post
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.
14lbs or 1400 if something gets tagged by a hot it would leave some sort of in most cases and still havent heard any of those.

plus 1 bite out of 150 goats on 80 acres in prime cottonmouth country thats pretty low considering how dangerous they are that they have to be killed to protect your livestock. either you killed more than your saying or they are not as dangerous as we think.

and compareing killing a hot to killing a wolf, moutain lions etc is wrong. a moutain lion can be an actual threat to your livestock as they see it as a food and a snake only would bite them in order to protect themselves.