Caught a 6ft snake eating my chicken!

[Leftcrazybehind]

Dead Rat snake

 

[Leftcrazybehind]

Thank goodness. Any ideas to keep snakes out of a chicken run?

 

[McChooky]

1/2" Hardware cloth around your coop vents and runs will protect your flock ,eggs and chicks too. Don't rely on chicken wire to protect your eggs and chicks.The holes are too big and the wire stretches.It also isn't heavy enough gauge.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I'd eat the snake. Seems fair.

Its pretty lean. Bar B Qint it works really well, whether braised in sauce or slow smoked on the pit, then sauced.

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

I'd eat the snake. Seems fair.

Its pretty lean. Bar B Qint it works really well, whether braised in sauce or slow smoked on the pit, then sauced.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

What? I'm a man of varied experiences, who spends too much time in thought. I've had rattlesnake more than once. There are ways to do it well, and ways not to. Its like very thin white meat chicken. Dries out very easily.

 

[cmom]

So sorry for your loss. I do keep night lights on in my coops. Only once did I find a rat snake in a coop and I immediately got it out. I have had a couple of snakes try to go through the fence but got electrocuted when they touched the electric wires that go around the coops and pens. Good luck...
This was a snake attempting to get into the chick/grow-out coop minus it's head.

 

[Leftcrazybehind]

I'd eat the snake. Seems fair.

Its pretty lean. Bar B Qint it works really well, whether braised in sauce or slow smoked on the pit, then sauced.

Very funny. Will the chickens eat it?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Very funny. Will the chickens eat it?

Not funny, I was completely serious.

and yes, the chickens willeat it too - they've eaten the other snakes I dispatched - but I don't recommend giving it to them after braising in bar b q, or smoking, for that matter.

 

[Leftcrazybehind]

Not funny, I was completely serious.

and yes, the chickens willeat it too - they've eaten the other snakes I dispatched - but I don't recommend giving it to them after braising in bar b q, or smoking, for that matter.

I once killed a snake that was in the chicken run, put it in front of them and not one of them was interested in eating it.