One of the girls was up on the porch and in the attached shed being a pest today. So I after trying to shoo her off, her persistance won out, so I scoop her up and carried her back to he coop and the nesting boxes. While setting her on a nest I saw the flicker of a tail. OK, fire drill and...
It seems there have been alot of threads relating to losses due to snakes so here is an effective trap. My parents came across this method quite by accident but is effective. They had some plastic bird netting (type used to protect garden crop from wild birds) loosely rolled with a snake...