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[Brookhavens]

I have thought about that.. but down here they never really stop laying... LOL!!!!

See and all my girls quit in Dec/Jan. Over 20 hens and I was lucky to get 6 or 7 eggs a week.

 

[BlueChick62]

I love the sand! It's like a giant litter box. It dries after a heavy rain and never rots. It's pretty awesome!

Thanks! I hope to get my chicks out in the coop with the sand before the weekend is out!

 

[delder2009]

What can I do to help keep the snakes away??? I lost 4 of my 5 bantam Cochin chicks yesterday while I was at a Dr. appointment. It ate 3 and just killed the 4th. I keep everything clean and use 1/2 inch hardware cloth. But dispite that it still made it in theirbrooder box but ccouldn't get out. Any help would be great.

 

[Gingersnap722]

What can I do to help keep the snakes away??? I lost 4 of my 5 bantam Cochin chicks yesterday while I was at a Dr. appointment. It ate 3 and just killed the 4th. I keep everything clean and use 1/2 inch hardware cloth. But dispite that it still made it in theirbrooder box but ccouldn't get out. Any help would be great.

How are the snakes getting in?

 

[pennyshubby2906]

What can I do to help keep the snakes away??? I lost 4 of my 5 bantam Cochin chicks yesterday while I was at a Dr. appointment. It ate 3 and just killed the 4th. I keep everything clean and use 1/2 inch hardware cloth. But dispite that it still made it in theirbrooder box but ccouldn't get out. Any help would be great.

get a box of moth balls and spread them around the coop. Be generous with them, snakes won't come near the coop.

 

[delder2009]

How are the snakes getting in?

the snakes head was only the size of my ring finger nail so it fit though the wire. We had moth ball around it, human hair, and some snake repalint granules from the local feed store. Non of it worked. I've never been the tipe to to kill ever snake I see only if I know it poisonous. I know that they have a perpus. Eat bugs, rats, and poisonous snakes. But I'm not going to have them eatting my baby's. They haven't messed with my other's with the hot wire around the pin.

 

[Gingersnap722]

I'm so sorry. The only thing I can think of is to put something around your brooder box that has much, much smaller holes. Or make a brooder with solid walls until they get bigger.

 

[Runawaylobster]

What can I do to help keep the snakes away??? I lost 4 of my 5 bantam Cochin chicks yesterday while I was at a Dr. appointment. It ate 3 and just killed the 4th. I keep everything clean and use 1/2 inch hardware cloth. But dispite that it still made it in theirbrooder box but ccouldn't get out. Any help would be great.

how about covering the mesh with patio screening.. worth a try perhaps??

 

[BlueChick62]

What can I do to help keep the snakes away??? I lost 4 of my 5 bantam Cochin chicks yesterday while I was at a Dr. appointment. It ate 3 and just killed the 4th. I keep everything clean and use 1/2 inch hardware cloth. But dispite that it still made it in theirbrooder box but ccouldn't get out. Any help would be great.

Oh! I am so sorry! I'm planing on putting my chicks, also bantam cochin, out n the coop for the first time tonight. I have 1/2" hardware cloth, too! Was your brooder up high? I'm wondering about nailing some flashing "L" around the posts on the coop…

 

[cmom]

What can I do to help keep the snakes away??? I lost 4 of my 5 bantam Cochin chicks yesterday while I was at a Dr. appointment. It ate 3 and just killed the 4th. I keep everything clean and use 1/2 inch hardware cloth. But dispite that it still made it in theirbrooder box but ccouldn't get out. Any help would be great.

Maybe you can use ¼ hardware cloth. This is my brooder. I have ½ hardware cloth. I have never had a snake get in it but I keep it in our garage.