Anyone know where to get glass eggs for snakes to eat

[oklahorselover]

Hi, I am new here & really need some help. Last night a giant chicken snake somehow got into my chicken house & ate two 5 day old peeps, one 4 week old and killed my favorite black adult hen. I'm sure the hen was protecting the little ones & made the snake mad. I was devistated when we were woke up by a screaming & went outside to find what had happened in our chicken house. We think the snake was already in there when hubby closed the door to the chicken house.
I had heard that you can buy glass eggs & put them out & the snakes will eat them & die. Are these real & where can I buy them ? I am just sick that this happened to my peeps & my favorite hen. The rest of the hens & rooster were scared to death.Poor guys

If someone could give me some advice on the glass eggs or what to do I would really appriciate it. I don't want to use moth balls or that snake stuff as I have horse's a dog & a cat & can't take the chance of any of them getting any of that poison.

Thank You

 

[The Moonshiner]

Yes most of these items will just be thrown up and not stop a snake at all.
But snakes will eat some strange things from a nest box.
You can Google x ray images of snakes that have eaten plastic Easter eggs, ceramic eggs, golf balls and there's even one with a door knob inside it.
To the one poster just because your captive born snake won't eat those things doesn't mean much.
When you keep captive born and captive raised snakes you are conditioning them to what to eat. A snake in the wild is a different situation.
I used to have many snakes. After the first one I soon figured out feeding live rats to your snake can be dangerous.
If snake isn't hungry but rat is they can knaw on a snake and cause serious damage.
I soon only fed dead rodents to mine which worked out best not only for the reptile but for me. Easier to keep frozen rats in bulk then live ones.
I had many snakes that would never touch a live rodent but just because they didn't I can't run around telling everyone no a snake will not eat a mouse/rat unless its dead.

 

[wyo-helpmeet]

I was reading on another site that they blow the eggs, tape one end, fill with hot sauce & tape the other. Could you imagine the look on that snake's face?

 

[cgmccary]

I was reading on another site that they blow the eggs, tape one end, fill with hot sauce & tape the other. Could you imagine the look on that snake's face?There would be no look because the snake would NOT eat the sauce filled egg!

Try night light sized light bulbs. Very cheap at the dollar store. Cheap perhaps, but a waste of money because snakes do NOT eat light bulbs.

Again: My pet snake (and he was captive born) will not even eat a store bought egg so I cannot imagine ANY snake mistaking a light bulb or an egg filled with hot sauce for the real thing. A snake's sense of smell is keen. Don't waste your time doing such non-sense.​

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Fake eggs, golf balls, etc. are not the answer. Snakes will simply throw them back up if they can't digest them.

Snakes are unable to digest their food if the temperature is too low. Therefor in order for the snake to keep from dying from a rotting meal in their bellies snakes are all great at vomiting.
However snakes are terrible house keepers and they NEVER return the pilfered glass nest eggs or golf ball to the place they got them resulting in the loss of a nest egg but not the death of the thieving reptile.

 

[dykeswa]

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You can get these at just about any feed store or farmers co-op, we have killed several this year, sorry to hear your bad luck.... WAD

 

[saddina]

Golf balls work well too.

 

[Pagemaker]

Fake eggs, golf balls, etc. are not the answer.
Snakes will simply throw them back up if they can't digest them.
You might try putting poison inside of some real eggs... but make sure you put them where your chickens can't get them, if the "doctored" eggs break the chickens will eat them.

 

[Pagemaker]

I have also heard of people putting fishing hooks with string attached inside of eggs and catching snakes that way.

The only other option you have is to snake proof your nest box.

 

[ranchhand]

The humane methods, such as shooting or cutting off the head are preferable, since they are the quicker methods of killing a snake.

Our method here is to prevent the snake from ever getting in. We have a 6 foot yellow rat snake who tries, but hardware cloth took care of that. Now he sits outside and just drools!

So sorry that you are having this problem, but do try to do it fast and clean.



edit for typing too fast.