Golf ball thief..

[HaappyHenhouse]

I interrupted a 4ft black snake stealing a golf ball this morning. He's been coming around over the last 6 months or so in the evenings and usually left the area once we came around but since I and the chickens started a team effort to kill/eat the mice, he just have decided eggs would be a better choice.

Oh, what a funny video it is on the ring camera... Me in my jammies, sweating and swearing loudly while slamming around with a shovel on a sunny Sunday morning in the coop.... The young pullets circling me offering squeaks and squawks of support while I cornerered it. Dragged him out by the tail and, well... ended it.

Note to self: apologize to neighbors for the swearing and put a hatchet in the coop.

Yes, I got my ball back

 

[Mya05]

I interrupted a 4ft black snake stealing a golf ball this morning. He's been coming around over the last 6 months or so in the evenings and usually left the area once we came around but since I and the chickens started a team effort to kill/eat the mice, he just have decided eggs would be a better choice.

Oh, what a funny video it is on the ring camera... Me in my jammies, sweating and swearing loudly while slamming around with a shovel on a sunny Sunday morning in the coop.... The young pullets circling me offering squeaks and squawks of support while I cornerered it. Dragged him out by the tail and, well... ended it.

Note to self: apologize to neighbors for the swearing and put a hatchet in the coop.

Yes, I got my ball back

I wish I could see a video of that We removed a large rat snake from our yard, about a week after our chicks hatched. Luckily, we caught the before it did any damage Happy everything turned out well for you, and congrats on getting the ball back

 

[cmom]

Appears like something I would do. I do have electric wires around my coops and pens and a couple of times a snake went through the wires and got electrocuted. Good luck and have fun...

 

[McChooky]

I interrupted a 4ft black snake stealing a golf ball this morning. He's been coming around over the last 6 months or so in the evenings and usually left the area once we came around but since I and the chickens started a team effort to kill/eat the mice, he just have decided eggs would be a better choice.

Oh, what a funny video it is on the ring camera... Me in my jammies, sweating and swearing loudly while slamming around with a shovel on a sunny Sunday morning in the coop.... The young pullets circling me offering squeaks and squawks of support while I cornerered it. Dragged him out by the tail and, well... ended it.

Note to self: apologize to neighbors for the swearing and put a hatchet in the coop.

Yes, I got my ball back

Big snakes don't just eat mice or eggs.Glad you gave him a proper burial.

 

[HaappyHenhouse]

Big snakes don't just eat mice or eggs.Glad you gave him a proper burial.

That was my thinking once I saw his size. This is a back yard coop that sits by the woods so I'll continue doing regular snake sweeps! I've dispatched the ones I've seen as needed (we have copperheads here in NC.... ) and have all ideas I'll see another.

 

[McChooky]

That was my thinking once I saw his size. This is a back yard coop that sits by the woods so I'll continue doing regular snake sweeps! I've dispatched the ones I've seen as needed (we have copperheads here in NC.... ) and have all ideas I'll see another.

They don't call them "Chicken snakes" for no reason. They'll swallow their heads and suffocate them.