Egg sucking snake?

[HobbyChickener]

You want to find out if it is a snake?

Here you go.

Take an egg and very carefully drill a tiny hole in the top, one that is just large enough to put a good size catfish hook in it. Now take a catfish hook and tie it to a good stout 20lb test fishing line and leave about 15 foot hanging off. Feed the hook, eyelet and all, into the egg superglue the top shut. Now take it back to the coop and put it in the nest. Now take the other end of the string and tie it off somewhere that isn't noticed and is good and stout and won't come untied (I like a texas rigging knot). now cover up all the loose line so it can't be seen or get tangled in by your birds.

Be prepared when you go back to the coop as you might have caught a snake and there is a good chance he might still be alive but hooked. I always just took a shovel with me until the job was completed.

Good Luck!

 

[farwesttexas]

I know this post is old but I still need to post this. Yesterday I went gathering eggs and when I went to one of the nests, whallah, swear it was a rattle snake curled around the one egg in that nest. The egg was broken and leaking. The snake made a noise similar to a rattle, but lower in volume. When I returned with the bazooka (the shovel) the snake had fled. Err, slithered away. People tell me it should have been Coachwhip snake. Any thoughts about the snake?

 

[cassie]

We have black snakes that are notorious egg eaters. They swallow the egg whole. I think that all snakes that eat eggs do the same.

 

[007Sean]

I know this post is old but I still need to post this. Yesterday I went gathering eggs and when I went to one of the nests, whallah, swear it was a rattle snake curled around the one egg in that nest. The egg was broken and leaking. The snake made a noise similar to a rattle, but lower in volume. When I returned with the bazooka (the shovel) the snake had fled. Err, slithered away. People tell me it should have been Coachwhip snake. Any thoughts about the snake?

Rat/Bull snakes make a rattle sound by rubbing their scales together, sounds similar to a rattle snake but softer...a mimicry adaptation, so anything intent on attacking won't, cause it sounds like a rattler.

 

[Lastchancechicken]

I had something suck the egg dry during day light hours. It came back later and took the shell. I only know of a couple snakes that live in the hay barn where the the hens laid. Lots of mice but no rats that we know of.
Would love to know what it is.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Some snakes that make a living as egg eaters have a special bone in the rear area of their throats that pierce the eggshell and spills the contents of the egg into No Shoulder's esophagus.