INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Mirajane]

My Farm Innovators incubator is finally sorta stable... It changes from 95-97. Safe for hatching?

 

[kwhites634]

Snake or rodent

And yes, collect all eggs as soon as possible, leaving only golfballs. The snake will eat the golfballs and die

Maybe I'm missing something here, but what would possess a snake to eat something that doesn't look, smell or give off body heat like a prey animal does?

 

[LocalYokel]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but what would possess a snake to eat something that doesn't look, smell or give off body heat like a prey animal does?

Being a habitual eater of eggs
AND hunger

 

[stryker]

Somehow Duchess and Coreen found out how to get out. They literally pulled a Madagascar and dug their way out, then waddled themselves out to the garden to eat the weeds and do some free garden work. So because of this I think it's a good idea to build a little fence enclosing my footpath to the coop and the garden area, and during the day I can let the girls out to turn the soil and eat the weeds and seeds. They don't fly out of the enclosures anymore and they're actually really good at foraging and coming home when called now so I think supervised time in the garden would be okay.

Honestly it saves me a lot of time pulling and turning in the garden.

I let my chickens out in the garden before I plant and after I till. Then I let them out after the seedlings are tall enough to withstand a chicken scratch.

 

[LocalYokel]

Look it up Brother

Its not unheard of

 

[LocalYokel]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but what would possess a snake to eat something that doesn't look, smell or give off body heat like a prey animal does?

Not to mention it prolly smells like chicken, from the hens bein in the nestbox

 

[LocalYokel]

Ceramic eggs work better if you have them I hear

 

[Ruthannnall]

If another chicken were eating her eggs there should be shell fragments, maybe small, hard to find ones. Could a snake get to the nest from a hard surface where it would leave no track?  If I had your problem, I'd set up a trail camera, trained on the nest, but then I have two of them.

Snakes are attracted by the heat put off by their intended prey. A fake egg puts off no such heat, so I wouldn't think they'd be effective.

the nesting boxes are screwed into the side of the barn up off ground. so i the snake could come down the side of the wall . I do have trail cameras so I guess I will put one up and see. Thank you.

 

[country lovin]

Happy Birthday and I hope the hatch goes well!

thanks. My birthday is on Thursday which is when they will hopefully hatch. A little birthday present to myself!

 

[Ruthannnall]

Thanks everyone for the wonderful advice . I will be putting up trail camera on nest and putting golf balls in the nest just to see. My poor banty, she just wants to set her eggs and be left alone.