- Jul 27, 2013
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Bull snakes will do the same....kill rattlers, gophers, rabbits, rats, mice, and all sorts of pesky rodents that we don't want. Buttt.......because there were so many this year we started killing them. Everyone was around 5 ft long. Just killed one a few days ago that came at me when I was trapping a gopher, thank goodness I had my 22 with me loaded and ready to go.
About a month ago, I went out to check on my 1/2 grown chicks, to find a bull snake wrapped around one of them trying to suffocate it and I assume thought he was going to eat it, but the chick was so big there was no way he could have swallowed it. I've read on here where they do that, then the stupid snake realizes ooops too big, and someone is left with a dead chick. I arrived just in time to get him off the chick and saved the chick, but this explained why no eggs were in the nests too(there eating them). At this point is when I decided to start killing them.
Relocating did not work on our 10 acres, they'd just come back. I don't want to drop them off on someone Else's property and cause them grief. That would be no different than getting rid of a feral cat that way.
I was finding them in my chicken feed bags in the hen house, in 5 gallon buckets that I was reaching to use in the garage, even found one that got in the house and was slithering around on the lowered ceiling panels.
Early this spring I put out a water pan for the toads that like to come out after dark and eat bugs under the yard light and sit in the pan of water. I'm standing their watching the toads and throwing a few bugs at them enjoying their funny little ways of hopping around and eating them, then here comes a bull snake out of no where chasing a poor frog across the drive way. I had to stomped my foot and smack him with a stick to to get him to quit and he finally left. He was so focused on getting the poor toad it was shocking what I had to do to distract him to leave. Hardly any toads around now.
Gotta go! too many....too much bull around here!!! Can't hardly do anything with out a Bull showing up. I do not have cats, but if I did, I'd be very concerned about them eating their kittens. Does not matter if they are up high, because I've found them up on my workbench in the Quonset, and they were in the walls of my coup and ceiling in the house. So they do climb. Nothing is safe.
About a month ago, I went out to check on my 1/2 grown chicks, to find a bull snake wrapped around one of them trying to suffocate it and I assume thought he was going to eat it, but the chick was so big there was no way he could have swallowed it. I've read on here where they do that, then the stupid snake realizes ooops too big, and someone is left with a dead chick. I arrived just in time to get him off the chick and saved the chick, but this explained why no eggs were in the nests too(there eating them). At this point is when I decided to start killing them.
Relocating did not work on our 10 acres, they'd just come back. I don't want to drop them off on someone Else's property and cause them grief. That would be no different than getting rid of a feral cat that way.
I was finding them in my chicken feed bags in the hen house, in 5 gallon buckets that I was reaching to use in the garage, even found one that got in the house and was slithering around on the lowered ceiling panels.
Early this spring I put out a water pan for the toads that like to come out after dark and eat bugs under the yard light and sit in the pan of water. I'm standing their watching the toads and throwing a few bugs at them enjoying their funny little ways of hopping around and eating them, then here comes a bull snake out of no where chasing a poor frog across the drive way. I had to stomped my foot and smack him with a stick to to get him to quit and he finally left. He was so focused on getting the poor toad it was shocking what I had to do to distract him to leave. Hardly any toads around now.
Gotta go! too many....too much bull around here!!! Can't hardly do anything with out a Bull showing up. I do not have cats, but if I did, I'd be very concerned about them eating their kittens. Does not matter if they are up high, because I've found them up on my workbench in the Quonset, and they were in the walls of my coup and ceiling in the house. So they do climb. Nothing is safe.
