guess what i found in my chick cage this morning...

[aprophet]

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most times I relocate them to the canadian fur auctions this time of the year I feed the possums with the remains it keeps the preds at the bait piles and away from my birds pens

 

[ssbs]

I have an elevated pen.. It is up on 2X4's. I know it isn't impossible for a black snake to climb it, but it is unlikely.

We did has a 6 footer come to visit us each year.. We've not seen him for about 2, I'm afraid a neighbor got him. We also found a ring neck snake and a 2 or 3 foot garter snake.. So they're around, but they haven't bothered my birds

 

[Nikkumz]

Hey, sometimes they swallow thier prey without killing them first, id kill it and see if just maybe....You got a survivor. OR let your chickens have at it, i know my ducks like garter snakes

 

[7L Farm]

I found this guy in my cage I fixed the cage. He only ate the eggs. Sorry for your loss. You can see I fixed

the snake too.

 

[JJMR794]

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AMEN!

 

[mhwc56]

well i relocated the snake to the river ,definitely far enough away that i shouldn't see him again.
that's the first snake we've seen in the neighborhood in about 15 years . it only got into the pen b/c i didn't close the door to the cage quite right and there was a small gap .he was slim enough to get in but to fat to get back out ...
i just CAN'T kill a healthy living creature for doing what the good Lord created it to do.

 

[Tikkajazz94]

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I would have called animal control. they dealt with it

 

[gamebirdboy]

There are WAY too many predators. They are thriving in urban areas and becoming a nuisance. Relocating them is pretty much killing them because they are in a completely different environment. Plus it is handing your problem off to someone else. I have a huge problem, every time I put a new pen out a raccoon comes. I either shoot them with 22 shorts.

 

[mhwc56]

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Although i LITERALLY live in the city ,i live 3 blocks from the Potomac river and a substantial area of woodlands with all kinds of wildlife there.from bald eagles and herons to beaver, river otter,deer,bear ,coons ,possum and plenty of snakes . Everything thrives there. i am not relocating to a populated area and passing my "problem" off to someone else.
i'm sorry but i don't believe in taking a life simply b/c it's inconveniencing me. Yes i am sad that i lost some birds but i get it too...the snake is just doing it's snake thing. i'd MUCH prefer it to eat other wild things but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.....

 

[quailmale]

You kill knats, fly's, ants, roaches, and mosquitos for doing what they're supposed to do........just sayin.........