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Razee
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2525 Posts |
 Posted - 31/08/2012 : 15:07:36
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We have slowworms living in our compost heap. This is one I found when adding some more stuff to the heap - it was only small, but hugely fat. It almost looked like he'd swallowed another slowworm, can that happen?
Here it is, held by my nephew: ( we did put him back :-) )
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0.0.2 CB18 normal/ Okeetee yearlings Bunny and Lalalishka
0.0.1 hognose
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ScalySituation
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
5292 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 15:12:04
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| ooh he is a chunk isnt he! |
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1 mealworm colony
RIP Skye x
Sleep well Sonny, Mummy loves you xx
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Okeetee Mick
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2308 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 15:41:04
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| Used to see these all the time years back, not so much now sadly, nice pic. |
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scottishbluebird
it is all my fault
United Kingdom
8403 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 15:48:15
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| Oh wow, iv never seen any wild myself |
     
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Blackcat
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1235 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 16:27:07
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Lovely photo.
If I'm correct they give birth to live young, so what you refer to as a 'fat' male might actually be a gravid female and you will have lots of tiddly baby slow worms in your compost heap 
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Moppet
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
3315 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 17:11:52
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| Wow, very cool. |
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lotabob
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
4334 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 17:40:12
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| Looks like its only just eaten something huge or has a blockage. I would love to see one of these but so far nothing, they dont live in Ireland (though I have heard there is a small pocket of them somewhere) so will have to come to the UK and go compost digging. |
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Edited by - lotabob on 31/08/2012 17:40:53 |
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Falice
Yearling
United Kingdom
757 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 18:27:36
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| Awwsome! What a fatty lol. I saw one of these a few months back after not seeing one since I was a kid |
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jenjen23
Hatchling
United Kingdom
157 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 19:01:49
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wow looks chunky! We used to get loads in our garden, then we kept finding them with the ends of their tails missing then they seemed to disappear, pretty sure all the neighbours' cats got them  killers |
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Auld Baldy
Ikea's Pimp
United Kingdom
1619 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 21:20:56
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That is a beauty. 
I found one up near Glen Coe in the Highlands several years ago and he was even chunkier than that one, at least half as thick again.
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Mike80
Egg
United Kingdom
92 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 21:49:46
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Good pic!
It's a little hard to tell from the picture but I'd say yours is female and, as Blackcat suggested, may be gravid. If she is pregnant then she's probably ready to drop any day now! Just a guess though.
Coincidently, I've been helping my mum to encourage slow worms into her garden over the last week. She lives the other end of the country so unfortunately I won't get to see the results, but I hope it works. They're useful creatures when it comes to controlling slugs 
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Edited by - Mike80 on 31/08/2012 21:58:07 |
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Razee
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2525 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 22:05:29
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Thanks, everybody. When I still didn't have snakes, I used to go to look at / handle the slowworms. 
& Blackcat: Would be nice to think it was pregnant, though it was only about half the length of the fully grown ones I've seen, and the bulge started just behind the head, so probably from something it's eaten.
& Lotabob: It looked almost like a picture of a snake I'd seen on a link: a hatchling that has just eaten another hatchling Then I thought - hang on, they are mainly insect or worm eaters, would they try to eat another, smaller slowworm?
& Jenjen23: I've found a tailless one, too, and one with horrible scars, but healing very well. I suspect our cat ( or the 5 cats from next door ) could well be the culprit.
& Auld Baldy: I can sympathize re midges, just been changing electric fencing in the field a got eaten alive by mobs of them. Am still itching now. |
0.1.0 late CB10 Carolina corn snake - Bazilishka
1.0.0 CB11 Abbots Okeetee- Little Twiddler
1.0.0 CB11 Hypo corn- Sebastianek
1.0.0. CB14 Butter Motley - Squidwood
0.0.2 CB18 normal/ Okeetee yearlings Bunny and Lalalishka
0.0.1 hognose
0.1.0 stable cat
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Razee
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2525 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 22:46:47
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| Mike 80: they really seem to like not just the compost heap, but the fact that it is covered by black plastic. They seem to sit right under the plastic, I think they like getting the heat from the compost heap from below and from the black plastic as it heats from the sun. And the cat can't see them there, either. |
0.1.0 late CB10 Carolina corn snake - Bazilishka
1.0.0 CB11 Abbots Okeetee- Little Twiddler
1.0.0 CB11 Hypo corn- Sebastianek
1.0.0. CB14 Butter Motley - Squidwood
0.0.2 CB18 normal/ Okeetee yearlings Bunny and Lalalishka
0.0.1 hognose
0.1.0 stable cat
0.1.0 house cat |
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Auld Baldy
Ikea's Pimp
United Kingdom
1619 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 22:54:56
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| At the first opportunity, ambush the first Avon Rep you see and grab as much 'Skin So Soft' skin lotion as you can. It works pretty well at keeping the devils away. (Seriously.) |
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scottishbluebird
it is all my fault
United Kingdom
8403 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 23:28:56
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| The avon stuff keeps away flies too |
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paulie78
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2331 Posts |
Posted - 31/08/2012 : 23:56:28
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Aww very cool hmm wonder if it was a gravid female have to keep an eye open for babys and let us know we seem to get slow worms aplenty round here my friends got an entire colony under his patio which has upset wifey cause she wanted it moved and hes refused now on principle that the slow worms live there lol
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Mike80
Egg
United Kingdom
92 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2012 : 00:21:20
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Originally posted by paulie78
...my friends got an entire colony under his patio which has upset wifey cause she wanted it moved and hes refused now on principle that the slow worms live there lol
That's pretty much what happened to my mum. She was moving some old patio slabs and discovered several slow worms living there. Unfortunately the slabs had to be moved but she's got a sort of 'wild', undisturbed border around the edge of the garden so I told her to place a few 12'' square pieces of corrugated tin around there to encourage the slow worms to stay. Hopefully it'll work.
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Jenn
Hatchling
Canada
204 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2012 : 04:30:35
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| ok, googled them, very cool...lol. I want one! |
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Mike80
Egg
United Kingdom
92 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2012 : 12:53:44
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Originally posted by Jenn
ok, googled them, very cool...lol. I want one!
Interestingly, although they are a protected species in the UK, as far as I can tell it isn't an offense to keep one as a pet - similar to grass snakes. It's only an offense if you mistreat, harm or kill them or go on to sell/trade them. It's one of those weird British laws that outlaws everything else but doesn't specifically outlaw ownership, although in this case keeping one in captivity could be interpreted as mistreatment and be considered an offense.
Unfortunately for you that means no sending them to Canada for the pet trade. That's probably very fortunate for the slow worms and Canada though
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Ell
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
1640 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2012 : 14:32:32
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| Oooo nice, your very lucky, I adore slow worms ^^ |
 
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Razee
Fully Grown Corn
United Kingdom
2525 Posts |
Posted - 01/09/2012 : 17:36:54
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| @ Auld Baldy - does it work on ants, too? Midges yesterday, half an ant nest on my today...was distracted taking more slowworm pictures and the little blighters swarmed up my arm biting their way up. Aaargh... |
0.1.0 late CB10 Carolina corn snake - Bazilishka
1.0.0 CB11 Abbots Okeetee- Little Twiddler
1.0.0 CB11 Hypo corn- Sebastianek
1.0.0. CB14 Butter Motley - Squidwood
0.0.2 CB18 normal/ Okeetee yearlings Bunny and Lalalishka
0.0.1 hognose
0.1.0 stable cat
0.1.0 house cat |
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Very fat slowworm!
