In late September or early October, she retreats to a den to give birth to four to 12 live baby rattlesnakes. The newborns are miniature adults, equipped with fangs and venom, but no rattles.

There are others, but their fangs are too small and venom too ... Other snakes that can be hunted with no daily limit are prairie rattlesnakes, timber rattlesnakes, and massasauga.