Chicken behavior and egg laying changed

[juliejohnson805]

I usually don't relocate animals I catch.
It's not recommended and could be illegal in your area. They could return or upset the balance in the area you release including introducing a disease into that area. Or you could be making it someone else's problem. I usually dispatch of them.

Guess I should clarify by relocate I mean moving from house/barn area to woods behind that is our property. Blessed to have a few hundred acres. This is only done with non-vemonous snakes. Anything else would be dealt with in another manner.

 

[lazy gardener]

Having the same issue. Mine is due to a snake that likes to hang out in the coop. Time to get rid of it.

JW, your snake needs to take a hike! I like snakes, really I do. Thankfully, non venemous here, and none big enough to be an issue eating eggs. But, if I had one that was going in my coop and stealing eggs, He'd be history, for sure.

 

[jolly wattles]

JW, your snake needs to take a hike! I like snakes, really I do. Thankfully, non venemous here, and none big enough to be an issue eating eggs. But, if I had one that was going in my coop and stealing eggs, He'd be history, for sure.

Weird thing is since I made my wife a homemade snake catcher he hasn't showed his face.

 

[aart]

Weird thing is since I made my wife a homemade snake catcher he hasn't showed his face.

Ounce of Prevention coupled with Murphy's Law?

 

[jolly wattles]

Ounce of Prevention coupled with Murphy's Law?

For every action there's a reaction.

 

[lazy gardener]

Does that thing actually work?

 

[jolly wattles]

Does that thing actually work?

Yep

 

[lazy gardener]

Cool. What's the "cord" made of? Does it have to be "stiff"?

 

[jolly wattles]

Cool. What's the "cord" made of? Does it have to be "stiff"?

It's 1/2 in emt I had laying around. You could use pvc. Ran a flat rope called mule tape through it and a washer at each end to keep the rope from pulling through. Slip knot at one end. I'd suggest a flimsy flat rope than a thick coarse rope for snakes.