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Quote: Yeah I'm still figuring out how to get pictures to my page - I just figured out how to get my avatar picture. so til I figure that out! https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/61044_dscn0126.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/61044_dscn0011.jpg First picture is...

Just lost another guinea hen to a snake last night. Just suffocated it let the bodythe head always looks slimed. Lost power to electric fence and it was raining will need to change the wiring from that poly rope to wire. The poly rope just get soaked. Or it could be that the snakes are gettin in...

Quote: That's what my dh said, so we let it stay, but it's killed 2 of my birds now.... so it's time to get rid of it. Don't your chickens eliminate the crickets? I know those guineas do, nothing they seem to like more than bugs. I guess you could relocate it since you know what it is. Do...

Quote: Now my mouth is watering! I love goose - tasty birds! Now you've done it - I'll be thinking about roasted goose the rest of the day! Remember to keep a few to deter the snakes! Looks like Ideal Hatchery is sold out of geese for now, so snakes and geese are safe!

Quote: Now my mouth is watering! I love goose - tasty birds! Now you've done it - I'll be thinking about roasted goose the rest of the day!

Quote: That's really funny! I'd really like to see a picture of that! You're kiddin about the skillet part- right?

Quote: I'm bettin the food source is peeping chicks! So far they havn't been able to get into their coops. Or maybe eggs from the quail - we collect them as soon as we see them. The only other creatures around are birds and gophers - I think the snakes are gettin some of them I've noticed less...

All these ideas sound good - lets hope I'm brave enough to try them. I'm also working on my coops, just a lot of work how I wish I was a carpenter - and didn't have to work. I'm hoping I can get my guineas to hunt snakes and gophers. I put the snake in the guinea pen but they were afraid of it -...

Quote: I've tried mothballs they work, I really only have problems when my electric fence goes out - when it rains. Seems like the electricity goes out more and more - even when it doesn't rain. I do have a question about this relocating snakes,seems a bit dangerous to me - seen a few folks...

Quote: Wish my chickens would take care of themselves, but I think they're still too young, The snakes can't eat them but they do strangle them. The snakes scare me to death I can't tell what they are until after they're dead. put the snake in with the guinea hens afterwards hoping they would...

Quote: He might still be in the coop. Once they've had a taste of chicken they want to stay til all the chickens are gone. We've always found them either in the coop still or very close by. You might want to get an ax and start look in and around the coop esp. if you have a lot of places for...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/61044_photo0047.jpg This rat snake popped into my quail coop right as I was collecting eggs. This is the first one I'm had to kill, my mom's already killed 3 this year and one got away. This snake killed a silkie and a quail, didn't eat them just...