Getting Rid Of Snakes-Please Help!!!!!

[HeritageGoose13]

I don't agree with everything in the link, just thought it would be useful. As far as moth balls go, those things smell nasty. They could repel me out of my home.

 

[MadamPoofyBrow]

Thanks so much everyone! I will try some repellent, though I'd really like to catch it!
As for hardware cloth, we have three coops made out of it that we put babies in. It was kept everything out, but most of our coops are regular chicken wire. And there's also three dog lots...so we've made chicken pens out of EVERYTHING and going over all 17 pens with hardware cloth would cost a LOT...so I'll try some repellnt before resolving to that
Thanks again, and I'm glad other people are having snake problems too! Okay, that sounded really bad...I'm not glad y'all are having trouble with snakes, but I am glad it's not something I'm doing wrong...snakes really are taking over the world and that's all there is to it, lol! They seem so much worse this year...
Part of what made this morning worse is the little cockerel that the snake tried to eat had just found a new home and was going to it today...hardest thing in the world is calling someone to tell them their cockerel's been eaten by a snake

She still wants his brother though, so that's good
I'm still taking suggestions, and think I have some moth balls I'll try first, since I've already got it

 

[ConPollos]

Mothballs will bother your chickens, but Snake Stopper won't.

Mothballs work under my house because the odor is trapped under there, but they don't make a good perimeter around buildings.

Have you ever put golf balls.in your nests for snakes to eat? I heard that kills them.

 

[HeritageGoose13]

Golf balls... yep, that would kill them. I've only heard of a snake taking them once, though. Usually they don't fall for it.

 

[MadamPoofyBrow]

Oh! I shall proceed to NOT use mothballs...couldn't find them anyway!
I have plenty of golfballs, so that'd be worth a shot. This snake is obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer, after attempting to swallow something way too big for it...twice.
I've also heard of making a wax egg and filling it with snake poison...any one here tried that?

 

[HeritageGoose13]

Oh! I shall proceed to NOT use mothballs...couldn't find them anyway!
I have plenty of golfballs, so that'd be worth a shot. This snake is obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer, after attempting to swallow something way too big for it...twice.
I've also heard of making a wax egg and filling it with snake poison...any one here tried that?

You could make a wax egg, but that would be enough to kill it. Don't bother putting poison inside, as that's overkill and something else might end up getting poisoned if it eats the snake.

 

[MadamPoofyBrow]

Oh, didn't think of that! Hawks get every snake we've ever killed, and I wouldn't want one getting poisoned...I guess I'll make like a little nest: a gold ball, and wax egg, and a hand grenade...lol, jk! what else could I add to my little fake eggs nest? The more things in it the more likely she'll be to fall for one of them Oh, and I do know she's a she...we got her mate, and caught her laying eggs...back when we were leaving her be to eat the rats
Maybe a blown out egg with a fish hook in it? I dunno...this snake has survived nearly chioking on two chickens...so what is it about wax that kills them? Cause people can eat wax and be fine, so why not snakes?

 

[HeritageGoose13]

You could use a golfball too or the wax. It's not really poisonous, but it gets stuck inside their bodies and doesn't come out since they can't digest it. It's like swallowing a giant rock basically.