snakes

I’m making a new duck enclosure that will be chain link fenced in for 5 (maybe more) ducks. It includes a pond but i’m not sure how to deter snakes. I’ve looked up plants that deter snakes but don’t know which are safe for ducks. Should i put fish in the pond to eat frog eggs so there’s no food...

Scared the crud out of me. Thankfully the chickens in this coop are free range and I had already collected eggs for the day. I tried to carry it back into the woods on my rake but it squirmed off and got into my compost pile. Kill it or leave it be?

A couple weeks ago I found one of my 12 week old pullets had been killed by a snake. It was obvious that it was too big for the snake to swallow. The head and neck were covered in mucus. I did some reading and hoped the snake would go elsewhere for a meal. Today I found another young pullet fell...

We have lost 2 eight week old chicks. We are guessing snakes but not sure because we just find the chick dead with slimy stuff from their head to the upper chest. Is this a snake who has tried to eat the chicks and they are too big to swallow? Their grow out house is 2 feet off the ground...

I've got 4 week old chicks, and 6 week old jumbo coturnix quail (the coturnix are separated in an elevated cage covered with 1/4 " snake wire, which is not working) this past week I've pulled 5 different 6-8 ft Rat snakes out of my coop. They're decimating my eggs, they've gotten 5 of my chicks...

I just lost all five eggs to a snake that got into the coop and under my broody hen, she had only been sitting on the eggs for three days so I was wondering if I should put more under her. the new eggs I put under her are only 1-3 days old so I’m hoping that works. Would it be best to see if she...

After years of relatively healthy birds and a safe coop and run, we have recently had three hens between 1-3 years old die unexpectedly several weeks apart. We do have a ton of brown and black widow spiders at this time of year as well as rats/mice and possibly snakes that can access the hens...

Any reptile lovers here!? I didn’t used to be a huge fan of them although I always thought they were cool. Anyway, I’ve recently been researching a lot and now I love them :lau Thought I would start a thread so I don’t clog up or hijack any other threads rambling about them. :lau :hide I...

I caught the first rat snake today in bird netting! Yay! Thanks so much for this forum, where we can learn from others and care for our flocks! The bird meeting was wadded up under the nesting boxes and it took about 4 days. The rat snake is about 6ft long. We’ve lost 2 chickens it tried to eat...

Edited. For some reason I can't upload the images but it was an adult grey rat snake. They're beneficial so I don't want to kill him (although he does frustrate the hell outta me--I've seen him a few times now and never been able to catch him). So my plan is to make a snake trap using rope...

due To mice being in the coop— we now have a couple very large bull snakes in the coop. The chickens seem to be afraid of them in fact I’m pretty sure one had a heart attack while running after seeing a snake outside the coop. So what if anything should I do?

What kind of snake is this? (Please don’t mind the 9mm bullet hole in its head, my father doesn’t like snakes :gig) It was coiled up in a nesting box and has at least 3 eggs inside of it.

We just found this little tiny egg in our duckhouse.....Do ducks lay little eggs? We have four females and we believe all of them have been laying......But we recently had a snake in our duckhouse as well and I know they lay eggs too! Needless to say I'm a bit spooked! :) Does anyone have any...

Hiiiii everyone! I found a pretty big black snake in our backyard a few days ago (literally deathly terrified of snakes - I'm not going to lie LOL). Now all I can think of is trying to keep snakes from getting anywhere near our coop and run. I have been googling and asking around in regards to...

Anybody know what kind of snake this is? It’s dark gray and has a white belly. Roughly 6-7 inches long. Our chickens have eaten three of these and seem to be fine afterwards. My only fear is if they can be bitten by such a small snake. I was able to pick it up no problem and the head is...

Im a big cat person who also loves her fish and chickens and im thinking about getting a snake, but i dont want it to hurt any other aniamls i have, any ideas?

My babies are almost a month old, so we moved them to the back porch buttttt in saying that we have become paranoid. We have them in a large dog kennel and wrapped in extra small holed chicken wire. But as the mess grows and they eat more...Im trying hard to move them to a cage in the yard. We...

Distress can play a major role in a dramatic decrease in egg production within your flock. A snake just being present and not necessarily eating the eggs can make your egg layers turn off their switch. RAIN, that is a reality we are dealing with at the moment. An unprecedented amount of...

I have to had to hens about 2 years old and 6 hens about 3 months old. Only the two older hens were laying at best 2 eggs a day and they were left alone. However the firth morning I came out to check them there was only one dead looked like it had been swallowed up to the shoulders and spit out...