The rattlesnake skins go to dealers who make boots, belts, hats and other leather items. Then they make it to the final spot, which is our skinning pit,” the president of Sweetwater Jaycees, Travis Gardner, said.
Then they’ll go to our research pit where they’re weighed, stretched and sexed. From here, they will go to our milking pit, where the venom is extracted. “Right now, we’re standing in our weigh-in pit where all of our snakes that we buy are brought and weighed in. In 2016, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department delayed considering banning gasoline use in the snake dens.Įach year, in the second weekend of March, the event draws tens of thousands of visitors, who come to watch the rattlesnake shows, venom extraction demonstrations, and how the animals are skinned for leather goods. And as they start moving towards the front, you know, we’ll, we’ll start snatching them.” said Jeffery Cornett, a member of Sweetwater Jaycees, who organizes the roundup. So, what’s going to happen is, you know, they’ll come out to kind of get a breath of fresh air.
“We’ll put about a quarter of a cup, maybe a half a cup of gasoline in the back, and they (rattlesnakes) don’t like the fumes. Sometimes, gasoline is sprayed into the rocky holes to force the snakes out. The annual rattlesnake roundup in Texas in the United States has drawn criticism from rattlesnake experts and animal welfare organizations, who argue that the roundup is inhumane and causes unnecessary harm to the reptiles.ĭuring the event, thousands of pounds of rattlesnakes are hunted and rounded up as they emerge from their dens to breed in the spring.
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