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    snake just ate my chicken

    Yep! Another black rat snake. They will most likely be the most common snake around a chicken coop, hence the well-deserved nick-name. Beautiful healthy specimen at that!
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    snake just ate my chicken

    That would be another black rat snake, aka chicken snake.
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    Rattlesnakes & Copperheads

    Kingsnakes are constrictors, just like rat snakes, and will eat the young chicks if given the opportunity. However, they would eat the rattlesnakes and copperheads too! Racers are not constrictors, but they are excellent climbers, and are notorious to climbing trees to raid bird nests, so again...
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    Can BB gun kill chickens and...?

    .410 are just about the most expensive shotgun shell currently. 12-ga is the cheapest, but very powerful at close range. Shotguns would just be messy, especially for one of your former pets. I would vote BB gun (pump), pellet gun, or .22 for the kill job. Just put the muzzle directly against the...
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    Chicken loss to biggest black snake ever!

    I wouldn't waste money on Snake-Away! I haven't heard any good reports on it. It's just propaganda. I don't let my chickens out unsupervised right now. They are about 6 wks old. The coop is about as snake-proof as we can get it, although we have to keep covering a hole everyday because they...
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    snake just ate my chicken

    That one (on the shovel) is around 4 ft in length (it is held real close to the camera, which makes it look larger). The largest copperhead I've personally ever caught was a southern copperhead in southeast Oklahoma, just around 4 ft. But the largest on record (already mentioned) was a northern...
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    snake just ate my chicken

    I've lost a duckling already from a large rat snake. It found a hole my ducklings created, and came right in. The duckling (at the time) was about 4 weeks old, far too large to eat, but not too large to overpower. The snakes will usually not bother the adults, but young birds can fall prey, and...
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    Found this in the coup this morning

    He's actually a black rat snake, still nonvenomous and very beneficial, assuming you don't have young chicks.
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    Snake and a chick

    I feel your frustration. I lost a duckling to a snake just the other day. I on the other hand really like snakes, and I'm trying to figure out a way of preventing them around the coop. However, most snakes are welcome in my yard, simply because of their benefits. We don't leave them out...
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    Another hungry customer!

    Found this young black rat snake in the yard! Good thing he couldn't get in!! I tell ya, just get some chickens and the snakes come runnin', or...uh...slitherin'!
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    Rattlesnakes & Copperheads

    Most G&F agencies do not relocate snakes anymore. Latest research has shown that snake relocation, or most animals for that matter, is not beneficial. If the snake is relocated close to where it was captured, it will most likely return. Long-distance relocation actually reduces their chances of...
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    Already?!

    We have 2 Swedish Cayuga ducklings about 4 weeks old, and they have apparently scratched or pecked a small hole near the bottom of our chicken pen between the wooden siding panels. Yesterday we came home and checked on them, and found one of our ducklings dead on the floor. After finding the...
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    Newbie here!!

    My kids already want to hold them constantly! :D
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    Newbie here!!

    One of my snakes, timber rattlesnake. I've had this one for 11 years since it was a baby. Western diamondback rattlesnake I just got last summer. Broadbanded copperhead I've had 2 years now.
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    Newbie here!!

    The ducklings the day we got them, about 2 weeks ago. The same ducks about 4 days ago. Our chicks when they were delivered Monday. The new puppy, Jack, the "chicken/duck/turkey guard". The finished chicken coop (you should've seen what we started with!). The bird pen.
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