snake

We had a snake crisis this afternoon. At about 3:00 I went to go feed our chickens and saw a black snake in our quail pen. It had already killed and ate one of our 10 quail. (We took this one down the road to relocate).We went to TSC to go get rabbit wire to replace the chicken wire on the quail...

Found all of my 6 quails dead an hour ago. All but one had heads missing and good 2.5 inch whole in the wire mesh cage with wires pulled inside. One bird was eaten in a two inch diameter others just had missing heads, could not find the heads anywhere around.What could it be? Rat, Mongoose...

Who would have thought. Well at least it never crossed my mind.

hi! I’m looking into fermenting my chicken feed. I’ve read a lot of conflicting things. So can I pour the whole 50 pound bag into a container and pour water till it covers all of it? Can I leave the food in there till it’s all gone (a typical dry food bag lasts me 2 weeks or so) or can it only...

Hi everyone. I needed to get some information. I have seen a raccoon, a possum in my chicken coop area & caught one possum with a trap. My new visitors are smart and I haven't been able to trap them & now something has dug a hole under my coop. the hole was about 3 inches in diameter and at...

Please help!! There were rats in the barn where our chicks were so about three weeks ago we moved them to a coop behind the barn. It’s raised 3 feet and has relatively tight wire, but I was mortified to go out this morning to find a giant rat snake had eaten my three favorites! I was devastated...

Any suggestions on how to keep a snake out of the coop? There's a big black snake that keeps getting in the coop and eating our eggs. It also ate one of the golf balls I left in the nesting boxes to encourage the girls to use them and I was hoping that would kill it, but it was back tonight (or...