@#&$* black snake!!! RIP Fluffy, Cinderella, and Anise

[The Lisser]

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

 

[Soaring Chicks]

sorry to hear about your lost.

Hope you got rid of the snake!

 

[EggHunter_66]

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.

 

[Lbrad7]

Wow..sorry for your loss. Hope you can find out how it got in and button it up.

 

[The Lisser]

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

 

[chickensioux]

OMG how devastating. So sorry for the loss of those babies.

 

[bethsplace]

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!!