Our brooder room is an unfinished room attached to our house - intended to become a bathroom one day. We live in a really old farm house. I have brooded a batch of chicks and a small number of guineas in that room with no problem. Well a black snake must have found a way to get in because I woke up this morning to find 3 chicks out of the brooder (a livestock trough), one dead in the brooder and a black snake with some big lumps in his belly. We are really going to miss the babies, especially Fluffy! Melissa
Oh man, that sux....I know how you feel we have a snake that comes in the coop at night. Already lost about 9 birds to it.....seems like no mattter what we do it gets in The only way I know how to get rid of it is to kill it BUT we need to see if to be able to do that.
Thanks, y'all. My kind neighbor brought us a new "Cinderella". I removed the snake, and stuffed all the cracks I could find with folded newspaper, then put a well-ventilated Fort-Knox cover on the brooder (which is a gray livestock trough). I should have covered the brooder before, I just didn't think anything (besides bugs) could get in that room. Oh well, live and learn! Thanks again for your comments. Melissa
i went out to check my hen who is sitting the other day opened the door and a 2 1/2 ft black snake was sitting there between the door and a piece of wood that keeps the shavings in well sorry I disposed of it with a hoe I have no tolerance for any snakes around my coop! I am alittle more careful sticking my head in now!!
