My Aunt in Bedford County, TN use to tell me there were Milk Snakes in TN. Said they would raise up off the ground and drink milk from the cows. My Mom saw them in KY she says. I have never heard of this before or again. Is there any truth to that. Now I did see a Chicken Snake in Bedford County. He was in the hen house eating eggs in the nest. Big too ! Kevin Morgan

We had plenty of snakes in Bedford Co but milk snakes do not suck milk from cows. >From the University of Massachuetts Snake Mythology - Sucking Milk *Myth*: Milk snakes <http://www.umass.edu/nrec/snake_pit/pages/milk.html>are so named because of their ability to suck milk directly from the udders of cows. *Reality*: Although milk snakes<http://www.umass.edu/nrec/snake_pit/pages/milk.html>are common around barns that house cows, they completely lack the anatomy necessary to suck milk (or anything else for that matter). Barns are attractive to milk snakes because they provide abundant food in the form of small rats and mice. Sandy On 5/14/07, Kevin Morgan <retread2006@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > My Aunt in Bedford County, TN use to tell me there were Milk Snakes in TN. > Said they would raise up off the ground and drink milk from the cows. My Mom > saw them in KY she says. I have never heard of this before or again. Is > there any truth to that. Now I did see a Chicken Snake in Bedford County. He > was in the hen house eating eggs in the nest. Big too ! > Kevin Morgan > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNCANNON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Sandy Cowan HC 69 Box 117 Friars Hill Rd Friars Hill WV 24938 304-497-3553 scowan@hrea.coop