I think I need some advice

[Mom 2em All]

My poor Yankee self being a farmer in Alabama. My guinea keet with the Hurt leg is gone. I searched everywhere in the pen and in the coop. It doesn’t make any sense. And then I noticed this chick looking up-
I don’t know what kind it is, where it took my guinea or what to do because it slithered between the panels and I can’t find it now.
I don’t want to lose any babies and mama hen is sitting on eggs halfway to hatching.

 

[Tamdog]

Woah, I don't know what kind of snake that is but it sure is sneaky. I hope you get some answers. I always relocate snakes that are not venomous.

 

[Mom 2em All]

It will be relocated in a couple places when it comes back out.
I’m on a stake out.Um... a snake out.
my poor lil hurt guinea.

 

[Chickstarrs]

Looks like a milk snake to me, but I don't know what kind of snakes you have in Alabama. Milk snakes eat mice and other small rodents which is a good thing and why they are attracted to barns and other places where mice may be in residence.

 

[Franklinridgefarms]

It will be relocated in a couple places when it comes back out.
I’m on a stake out.Um... a snake out.
my poor lol hurt guinea.

I agree with your decision. A predator that has already killed one of your birds would just keep coming back for more eggs or birds. To relocate it would just bring the possibility of it doing the same to someone else’s animals. Most predators are not limited to the text book statements about their diets, they are very good at adapting to available food sources.

 

[Tamdog]

I live out far enough that the snake can not go to anyone else's house...my husband has been known to run them all the way up to a big lake.