Just a reminder,

[bayouchica]

with the weather starting to warm up for some folks out there. Look in your nest boxes before you collect your eggs!!
Last year I suck my hand in a nest box to find a 6 ft. long kingsnake swallowing an egg.

I don't mind,they gotta eat too. I'll take the snake to the canals behind our property,lots of frogs for them to eat down there.

Yall have a good day,
Miriam

 

[Wes in Tx]

Miriam you do the same as we do. Relocate. Last one that was killed here is because the wife caught it with 6 freshly hatched baby cochins in its belly and well lets just say that snake couldn't be put back together again.

 

[cookinmom]

Miriam,

Thanks for bringing this up. I know I would never have thought of this until I learned the hard way. Thanks for saving me from that!!!

 

[justusnak]

I havent lived in Indiana very long, and this is only my second year with chickens...ok....what snakes do I have to worry about here??? Ohhhhh buddy...im freakin out here! I dont like snakes...other than garden snakes...they dont scare me. ANY help on what to look for would be great!!

 

[pipermark]

If you find a King Snake I would let them have some eggs. They will help keep other more unfriendly snakes away, since they eat them. Cooperheads especially.

 

[CarriBrown]

When I first started reading that, I thought you were going to say you stuck your hand in a big pile of chicken poo!

 

[ChrissyNC]

Pipermark,
A King snake will keep away a Copperhead? I've been warned that we have Copperheads in the area, but haven't seen one yet, thankfully (though the locals all say that Copperheads have a smell to them

) The thought of finding any snake in with my chickens is making my skin crawl, but would rather find something more benign than a copperhead.
Chrissy