Bad bad snake

[mowin]

Then you would have more rodents...

I've killed every snake I've seen on my property, as well as dozen of clients properties, and it's in the multiple of dozens every week during the later part of the summer.

During the fall and winter months, the field mice flock to any warm source.

I set the traps and clear them as needed. However, those clients I don't do their lawn care, have as many issues if not more than those I do their lawn maintenance.

So don't give me this BS that snakes will be beneficial to rodent control in every situation.

 

[oldhen2345]

I would pay money for you to relocate that snake here if it were legal.

! Loosing a few eggs is NOTHING compared to the shredded remains of my baby rabbits and chicks,

You need to make a rat box. Worked well for me. Just use an old 2x4 turned up on it's side and cut three pieces about 1 foot long each. Nail it in a U shape. Put a roof on it overhanging about 6 inches on the open side. Put the open side up against a fence or some stones - and put poison (I use Just one bite) inside. The rats will go in and eat the poison, then go to their nests and die. Dogs, cats, birds and chickens can't get inside the box (I put a cinderblock on top so it won't move)

 

[Goatsanddogs]

The snake hss not been back. so my fingers are crossed that he got his free meal and moved on. Ernie bird is smart now to lay her egg in the bunny hutch/coop every morning. I just cannot convince her to roost there in the evenings. Tough . She sleeps in the wide open in the goat pen. .

 

[Goatsanddogs]

Ernie Bird has made a routine. She perches on the goat pen gate in the evenings, waits for me to come and put her in her coop. She is safe in her coop, and she lays her egg for me there every morning. No more snake.

 

[martins show birds]

Ernie Bird has made a routine. She perches on the goat pen gate in the evenings, waits for me to come and put her in her coop. She is safe in her coop, and she lays her egg for me there every morning. No more snake.

thats great

 

[doublecrossranch]

You probably don't have as many snakes in Idaho as we have in Missouri.
In the last year, I've caught black snakes eating eggs in 3 different coops around dusk. I grabbed them by the tail and flung them into next week. Perhaps the experience made them rethink a return visit.
Snakes beat cats hands down for rodent control. A cat has to sit and wait while the snake can go into the crevices and catch the vermin where they hide.
The chickens were unconcerned by the experience. No drop in production.

Just killed a 5-6’ black snake today in the coop. Luckily we had put the 1-2 week old chicks back inside because of the rain.
P.S. I grew up near Hermann!

 

[doublecrossranch]

I made my husband kill a snake today after it got in the coop. It was the middle of the day! I have baby chicks I’m trying to integrate. I can’t have 5’ snakes running around the coop and run.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I made my husband kill a snake today after it got in the coop. It was the middle of the day! I have baby chicks I’m trying to integrate. I can’t have 5’ snakes running around the coop and run.

That could be a problem for chicks. I have to fix the bottom of a door today before I move about 50 chicks (ranging from 4 to 17 days old)out to the the brooder house.
I'm not killing the snakes though, just making the house snake proof.

I worked in KC 3 different times. The last was as an engineer at Ford. I lived in Liberty.
I have a couple friends that live outside Kearney. Another friend who still works at the plant moved from Steelville to Smithville Lake.

 

[GabbyC96]

I’d say the best thing to do would be to re-locate him! You can do that yourself or if you don’t want to risk getting bit, call your local game warden!

 

[doublecrossranch]

I’d say the best thing to do would be to re-locate him! You can do that yourself or if you don’t want to risk getting bit, call your local game warden!

We don’t have those near here. I can’t get any department to help with week old kittens abandoned on the road or a newborn orphaned raccoon. They told us to euthanize them or let nature take care of them. They would laugh at me about relocating a black snake.