Disappearing eggs...

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WOW! Where do you live....? I'm intrigued. I'm in veeeerrrrry Northern California- almost at the border of Oregon, near the coast. We have Gardner Snakes..... Idk if they eat eggs though.

I'm sure they will eat eggs, esp bird eggs like robins and jays. They can climb too.

 

[new2chx]

Snakes are very capable creatures. And they are smarter than we give them credit for. See if this will help you get a good night's sleep tonight:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sna...0j69i57j0l4.5163j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

As for disappearing ceramic eggs: I have 2 and have actually marked them so I can tell them from the real eggs. They are very convincing in shape, wt, color, size. My ceramic eggs often move about in the coop. They travel from one nest box to an other. At least one of my hens will move a ceramic egg so she can have it in her favorite nest.

Eggs returning to the nest with tooth marks? Creepy! I've found that my dog is a white bellied egg sucker. I caught her raiding the egg basket that I had set on the deck. Before I realized what she was doing, she had stolen 3 eggs and carried them down onto the lawn for her "picnic". I bet the ceramic egg thief was a dog.

White Bellied Egg sucker ....That's funny! I considered my dogs, but the opening is too small for them to enter and exit without tell tale signs, so I ruled them out. Still think it was a snake...maybe the same one, maybe another. Hoping it's the last one for a while, at least.

 

[new2chx]

WOW! Where do you live....? I'm intrigued. I'm in veeeerrrrry Northern California- almost at the border of Oregon, near the coast. We have Gardner Snakes..... Idk if they eat eggs though.

I live in Maryland and we're basically back in the woods with a large yard. The pen is near to the woods. The entire pen is covered with netting so the only time the snake could get in was when then were out roaming and the pen door was left open for them to return. This snake was large at ~5 - 5 1/2'...very well fed from all the eggs it was stealing!

 

[Flashpoint]

I live in Maryland and we're basically back in the woods with a large yard. The pen is near to the woods. The entire pen is covered with netting so the only time the snake could get in was when then were out roaming and the pen door was left open for them to return. This snake was large at ~5 - 5 1/2'...very well fed from all the eggs it was stealing!

Sounds almost like my place! I am also in Maryland (western part) next to a state forest. All my pens border the woods and snakes are very abundant here. I don't mind losing a few eggs to snakes because they also catch other vermin like mice and chipmunks. On the other hand, depending on size, the chickens, ducks, and turkeys will eat a snake.