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

[charvey48]

Black snakes are very territorial; it'll come back if you let it live, unless you re-locate it a couple of counties away. Sorry for your loss!! I've lost 2 baby chicks to black snakes when they were out of their coop.

 

[ChickiKat]

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Pruners = good idea!

 

[mhwc56]

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we took it about a 1/2 mile away. it'll have to cross a dirt path,a swampy area,2 streets ,a 6 lane RR tracks and a wide parking lot to get back to the back yard. i suspect that'll be too much like work ...lol

 

[featherfooted]

I relocate the rat snakes I catch in my coop about 10 miles away and across a 6 lane interstate. I don't think they will be back.

 

[quailmale]

X2 on relocation.

I relocate all the hogs I catch to my 25cf FREEZER, 3 reasons 1) their overpopulated in almost all areas, 2) Free meat. 3) Did I mention free meat.

 

[Stellar]

I have been beheading every rat snake I find....three since Saturday. One in a duck pen "trying" to get some duck eggs under a broody duck, another was trying to get into a pen, another in the coturnix pen, ANOTHER engulfed two pairs of button quail. Oh that is FOUR...but man, tis the season for snakes and I feel like Buffy the snake slayer at the moment with my hedge clippers!

 

[RHRanch]

There was a thread recently about how "hazing" a snake and relocating it is showing promise as a way of deterring snakes from your coops. I have been relocating snakes for years, usually no more than an acre or two from the houose, and I find that it works for me.

 

[JJMR794]

I RELOCATED THIS 9+FT STRIPED RAT SNAKE TO REPTILE VAL HALLA. SO FAR HE HASNT COME BACK YET

 

[Fat Daddy]

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I heard somebody say"goood snake!!!"

Bill