3 snakes in the hen house at one time.

[D'Angelo N Va.]

I just went into the hen house to get up the eggs. well later I was walking down to my pond and I saw a snake coming out of it. My cat saw it and chased it, I found it and killed it. I then went to the hen house just to look inside and there were 2 more in the nest. I have lots of baby chickens due to hatch soon so I could not take a chance of having them around.

 

[Ms. Cluckingly]

I hope you took care of em. Some people don't advocate killing snakes, but you know what.. when it comes to my KIDS or my chicken's safety, if a snake were in my property, it would never make it out. Same with spiders. If they are outside, great, but in my house?? WAR!!

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Ms. Cluckingly :

I hope you took care of em. Some people don't advocate killing snakes, but you know what.. when it comes to my KIDS or my chicken's safety, if a snake were in my property, it would never make it out. Same with spiders. If they are outside, great, but in my house?? WAR!!

First of all Congrats. to having Mike home from that dreadful place. I hope he is doing fine. Second, yes I took care of all three. I hate snakes,and seeing that I have 27 eggs in an incubator and 3 hens setting also I could not afford a snake taking my babies away from me, or the eggs for that matter. or like you said ,just being on my property in my hen house of all places...​

 

[TwistedSerpent]

Please, before you automaticly reach for the shovel take the time to understand more about these creatures, they are actually extremely benefitial to the enviroment, unlike the majority of predators which are under the pest status. A single snake will eat hundreds if rodents and insects that really do cause damage, and some species even eat venomous snakes. Infact many farmers love having them around as one of the best pest controllers out there. Most species are 100% harmless, its always better to take a few minutes and learn to ID them instead of automaticly killing all of them, as well as teach children to respect and not touch them. People fear what they dont understand, take the time to learn about them and you'd be surpized just how important and amazing they are. Respect will do more for us and everything else instead of fear, and this is a case in which its better to learn to live with most species then it is to fight against it. That being said there are a few tricks to help prevent them from where you want them, the #1 thing you need to know is they hate being out in the open, so by removing clutter, mowing lawns ect is going to be the most effective way of keeping them away.

 

[dntd]

Relocate the snakes andy get better security for your run, hardwear cloth should heep snakes out.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

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you have a point, but as I said. I have several baby chicks hatching out soon and I would not let anything or anyone get to them. I had seen a black snake last month, but I did not kill it. I simply let it go in peace and it was in the hen house but not bothering me or the eggs..but now I have about 50 babies coming so I will not want anything to happen to them.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

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I have 4 hen houses with runs..to do the hardware cloth would cost a fortune.....I am protecting against everything else.