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I will also say a couple of years ago I lost some bantam chicks to a ratsnake. The chicks were very loved, first ones I hatched out and then they were being raised by my two favorite broody bantams. When I finally caught the snake in the henhouse I was angry, did I think about dispatching the...

Then snake proof the hen house. The snakes won't try to take hens during the day, so be a responsible chicken keeper and PROTECT your $75 hen.

Seriously? They threaten because they are SCARED of the much larger animals that kill them for no reason (i.e. folks that kill every snake they see for sport, or "just because they are frightened of snakes") . Even a 5 foot rat snake would be NO threat to a child. They rarely bite unless...

The animal wasn't biting your hen in the face, he was trying to swallow his now deceased prey. Black/Rat snakes are constrictors, they wrap themselves around the prey and squeeze causing a rapid loss of consciousness and death.. If they can get in you need to figure out how and seal the coop...