Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do. 
I have a cockerel that ate a baby snake. It might of been a copperhead. I did not get a good look at it. The only thing i saw was a pinkish belly. I do not have a problem with my birds eating snakes. My concern is if they eat a venomous snake, will the venom kill them?
