Best way I've found yet to deal with snake problems!!

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Very interesting way to trap snakes. We have quite a few around and mostly I just leave them alone. The biggest problem I have is telling the difference between the harmless corn snake and the poisoness copperhead.
Poisonous snakes have a more blunt tail and slightly different eyes and head shapes than non poisonous snakes. Mainly I go by this...Long slender tails are harmless snakes. If the tail has any bluntness to it (if it comes off the body and is slightly stubby then goes to a point at the end it is poisonous. Pull up some photos and compare them on duckduckgo.com and you can see what I am saying.
 
I already had two of these very common minnow traps at home but I stumbled on to one at walmart that was cheap and thought "I bet that would work!"
I set it along the wall inside of my coop and 2 days later had a rat snake in it, A couple days later a copperhead and then another, so I dug around till I found the two old traps and set them inside also and today I had two more copperheads, I knew I had snakes but didn't know it was this bad and am really loving the effectiveness of the Minnow/Snake traps, I figured if anyone else hadn't already thought this one up I'd share it and maybe it can help others save a few birds and eggs, Happy hunting and thanks for looking, Bill

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In all my days of farming, being a zoo keeper and now keeping birds as a hobby, I found that predators are opportunistic. I keep all my birds in an aviary that is completely covered in wire that is too small for critters that want to eat my birds, to get through. I also have concrete blocks on the bottom of the aviary going 3/12 - 4 feet into the ground. That being said, I constantly keep an eye out for rats, snakes, foxes and whatever else would harm my birds. When snakes have been found, they are removed...taken far away, miles away. Because when you take them 50 feet from where know where their is food ( your birds) they will be back. We also pick up all uneaten food at the end of the day, because food that has been uneaten attracts rats and rats attract snakes.
 

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