Chillin with my Peeps- I am sorry to hear you lost some birds. My theroy is that I had plenty of mice at one time to keep the snakes happy. The 2 hens I originally had at one time produced 2 eggs every other day or so. That went down to one every other day and slowly kept decreasing. (I am...
I was very surprised that a snake that size would consider eating my hen. She was obviously way to big for him to digest. I am so glad I rescued her in time. Has anyone ever put owl decoys around to deter snakes.
I am new to this forum but it has already proven to be very helpful. I lost 2 small hens to a rat snake over a month ago. I thought my coupe was pretty tight but apparently not for the likes of snakes. We added some extra security to the coupe and left one of their eggs in there as bait...