HUGE Black snake in chicken coop. Can’t Get him out

[SourRoses]

I asked my Aussie mom who's really good at the snake stuff, she sends sympathy and the offer to help if she was there...

Her only unique suggestion for your specific scenario is to hook a sausage on a string and let it swallow it then drag it out. LOL

Typical method would be to knock it down to the ground and use a shovel to chop its head off. It WILL come back.

If nothing you try works, my suggestion to protect the chickens is to bring a light in there, battery operated hopefully or maybe run an extension cord. Leaving the light on lets the chickens see if anything is coming and they can get away from a snake on their own.
It would not be a good night sleep for them but they would all make it to morning when you can leave the coop door open all day so the snake leaves.

*We have lost birds to snakes. Even recently, a pencil thin corn snake managed to strangle a youngster. So if you can't get the thing, just don't leave them in the dark with it. It can sense their heat and will find them on their roosts

 

[The Coop Crew]

Right now, my main objective is to get them out of the coop because the only way he got in there was to sneak in there during the day. I’m sure for eggs, but my eggs were still there. I have a lot of black snakes and actually I like the den of them. I have near my garage because well mouse control. I’ve never seen one this big and had to get near chicken coop or now in the chicken coop.! And I’ve seen some snake skins so I think they’re usually kind of agitated after they shed and so that adds to the fun

Ahhh okay. Well if they keep the rodents down and don’t normally harm the chickens then I can see why you want them around! I would actually die if I saw a snake that big

 

[FrostRanger]

Ahhh okay. Well if they keep the rodents down and don’t normally harm the chickens then I can see why you want them around! I would actually die if I saw a snake that big

I saw a rat snake that big before, near the spot where I got Raven (she was a former stray that someone was feeding). I have a suspicion that she may have been involved in that snake's death. The snake was fairly big, but Raven is a nearly 14lb ragdoll mix and she is indeed a mighty hunter

 

[The Coop Crew]

I saw a rat snake that big before, near the spot where I got Raven (she was a former stray that someone was feeding). I have a suspicion that she may have been involved in that snake's death. The snake was fairly big, but Raven is a nearly 14lb ragdoll mix and she is indeed a mighty hunter

We have gardener snakes around here and I think that’s about it…I scream every time I even see one of those haha

 

[FrostRanger]

We have gardener snakes around here and I think that’s about it…I scream every time I even see one of those haha

As long as they aren't venomous or are somewhere they shouldn't be I don't mind snakes. I actually think overall snakes are pretty cool. I just put my own safety and my animals' safety first

 

[Birdsong 82]

I have a black snake den under my garage since I moved in almost 5 years ago. And I’ve been more than happy that they’re there. Never had an issue because where that dentist is on the complete complete opposite side of the yard way over there. But I’ve never seen them get this big. They usually end up in my garage which I’m fine with because I guess really controls the mouse population in there, but this guy was not happy.

 

[The Coop Crew]

I have a black snake den under my garage since I moved in almost 5 years ago. And I’ve been more than happy that they’re there. Never had an issue because where that dentist is on the complete complete opposite side of the yard way over there. But I’ve never seen them get this big. They usually end up in my garage which I’m fine with because I guess really controls the mouse population in there, but this guy was not happy.

Did you get him???

 

[Birdsong 82]

OK update
Not exactly the greatest update. After on the ladder, trying to pull him down with the garden rake in him getting pissed all of a sudden he disappeared. I looked down and all the rafters everywhere. I don’t know how the hell he would’ve gotten out of there, but I cannot find him anywhere. And it’s not like he can hide that easily. I mean, I was crawling around in the bottom of the chicken coop. (Ewwww but whatever I have a washer and shower) I just can’t see how he got out unless he went through the door which my ladder was sticking out of because the awkward away the coop is set up to where he was

 

[The Coop Crew]

As long as they aren't venomous or are somewhere they shouldn't be I don't mind snakes. I actually think overall snakes are pretty cool. I just put my own safety and my animals' safety first

I think they scare me so bad because you don’t see them until you’re right beside them and then they spook me lol

 

[Birdsong 82]

And being the clumsiest person alive when I’m just walking on my own 2 feet of course I had to come in and put some Band-Aids because the ladder experience. I won’t even go there. I’m gonna go check it out again and see. I don’t know, though I checked every little nook and cranny.