Does anything repel snakes?

[Love Paradise]

In five days I have had a black racer come after me and chased me half way across my front yard lucky my neighbor saw it, hit the dame thing for it to go away. Then I saw a snake in a hole in my backyard which is small. I was putting out snake repellant that is sold in Okla. when it rained the next day didn't work. I had an adult Pigmy Rattlesnake come to my back door the only thing that scarred that snake was a Thrasher bird kept pecking at it then the snake went back in the brush. I live on an island across from the beach the home asso. doesn't really want you to remove the brush they want the look of an unkept Island. For two years I have put mothballs all around my home I had total convidence in this method until I saw the racer curl up with them and did not keep the snakes away from my home. Now, I don't feel safe in my yard or my home from these snakes...So Mothballs do not work. I have bought many boxes and put out as a matter of fact I just put two new boxes out the night before the racer showed up. So what kind of snakes does the mothballs deter?

 

[Triple Willow]

I don't know if it works or not but I have heard that spraying around the foundation of your house with kerosene (I think kerosene, maybe diesel) will keep snakes away. I bet ammonia might work too. I suppose you could do this around your coop/run too.

 

[D Kluck]

Mothballs do work. ..both the snake repellant & mothballs are napthelen which is toxic...

I have posted this before-- Take a 10' of 3/4" pvc pipe and drill 1/4" holes about every 4" apart to perforate the pipe...place mothballs in the pipe and place pvc cap on both ends(do not glue caps)

.... you can make several of these and place anywhere you like...i place them where i think snakea may try to come into the yard..


the best thing about the pvc pipe it keeps the mothballs away from anything that might eat them(birds, grandkids...etc) .....the mothballs last alot longer since they are not exposed to rainwater run-off

 

[Poulet Mama]

I have a small quarantine coop with three Marans hens in it. They have been molting lately, so I didn't think of their low to non-existant egg production as a problem until yesterday when I opened their nest boxes and lo! a giant black rat snake, over six feet long, was hanging out in there. He went out the way he came in, which was handy, and we trapped him between the woodpile and the shed. One pop with a .22 to the head and he was a goner.

I'm glad he showed us how he was getting in and out so we could fix that. This morning I picked up one egg and anticipate getting two more when I get home from work.

And here I was afraid they were eating what few eggs they were laying. Sorry girls!

 

[quigley257]

No, No, No, and No... seriously. The only thing any of these snake repellants are good for is emptying your bank account. Do some research. http://www.justbelowthesurface.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74:do-s

 

[btrbeana]

We had a chicken snake today that ate a fake ceramic egg I had placed in a nesting box (I have a Cornish that is DETERMINED to lay while she is on her roost. Just plops them out like poo, right onto the ground). When I went to collect eggs this morning I wondered where the fake egg was and there was no egg on the floor of the coop either… Then, I saw something in the straw under the nest boxes and reached down to see what it was and it moved! OMG This 5' long thing had a belly full of ceramic chicken egg and whatever had hit the floor of the coop that morning (dang bird!) Those were MINE! He was doomed to die slowly because of the ceramic egg he ate, so we took the machete and got my fake egg back. I dont know how to get rid of them. I think vigilance is best. We just take the good with the bad around here.

 

[LoneOak]

Quote: I had one eat a wooden nest egg once and he died with it in his belly, I threw him in the weeds and about a month later found his decomposed body and got my nest egg back. Washed it off and reuse it to this day!


Quote: Please don't do this! Not only is it a fire hazard the ground around your foundation will be dead and nothing will grow there for years and it will not work to repel the snakes after a week or so. Has anyone recommended a product called "SnakeAway" which is sulphur powder, I was told it works by an old timer at the feed store but haven't tried it.

 

[animals1981]

cats
ddogs
predatory birds

king snakes

 

[animals1981]

dutch the rabbit parents did not attack the snake?

 

[Triple Willow]

Please don't do this!  Not only is it a fire hazard the ground around your foundation will be dead and nothing will grow there for years and it will not work to repel the snakes after a week or so.  Has anyone recommended a product called "SnakeAway" which is sulphur powder, I was told it works by an old timer at the feed store but haven't tried it.

I haven't ever tried it. I was told that an elderly man recommended it. He said that he NEVER has snake problems if he does this. If my snake problem gets out of hand I will try about anything, especially if venomous snakes show up!