aaaah snake!

[dawg53]

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You are absolutely correct. I had a 5' long yellow rat snake take on an adult Buff Orpington hen in the middle of the night....dragged her out of the coop into the pen. Since she was a screamer, I heard her in the house. I turned on the flood lights and the snake was just about wrapped around her til I intervened. That was the same snake that killed 2 of my 3 almost full grown RIR cockerals during the night.

 

[bryan99705]

Can you raise the coop so it's not a safe dark place to hide? Maybe consider a few guinea hens

 

[aggie9296]

Had an eight foot "chicken snake" (which I believe is a black rat snake), kill a full grown chicken. It could not swallow it, but it sure tried.

 

[trkcChick]

I went out Sunday to get chickens some water and when I opened the back of the chicken tractor a 5 1/2 foot black snake was wrapped around waterers. My 4 large roosters weren't making any noise or anything. And the snake wasn't bothering the chickens. I don't know how long it was in there, but it scared the whooie out of me. I hate snakes. My husband got it and released it down the road in a field.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I appreciate snakes but they sure do startle you when you come on one suddenly.
You're just not expecting it.

 

[12304]

i like all animals including snakes but they sure scare me when they are trying to get to my chicks


if a snake can kill your adult chickens then it can defenitly kill my chicks

 

[Dun an Oir Hens]

Yikes - I'll eagerly take on any predator in defence of my chickens but snakes make me cringe.....

 

[bryan99705]

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I would have released it ON the road! In the middle of a freeway at rush hour, especially if he made me spill my morning coffee!

 

[bryan99705]

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You need to move the chicks or recover their area with hardware cloth if you don't kill the snake. He knows where easy food is now

 

[IWantATurbo]

i was told to put a couple golfballs on the floor of the coop the snake will think its and egg and eat it!! don't know if it works or not but i have them on my floor?