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TerriLaChicks said:
Wow I get busy at work & ya'll are filling up the pages! The Southern Living cartoon is funny - thanks for the laugh! So sorry about the frog - we have one that's hung around our back door for years, too. He likes to get in the cat's water bowl to cool off. I am forever fishing him out of there! I don't think Minou cares for frog-flavored water. Will most certainly say a prayer for the family of the little girl; what a horrible tragedy. OK got to go tackle the stack of mail that just hit my desk! Back to work!
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Thanks Terri. Enjoy the rest of your day.
 
kuntrygirl said:
There are too many to let my chickens eat them. I think the ants are about to eat the chickens.
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the ones my chickens don't have access to I pour gas on the mounds. I don't know if the chickens are stupid enough to eat gas so I don't put it in their yard, but the other animals that have access to the gas mounds don't touch them (dogs, ducks, geese, and emu).
 
kuntrygirl said:
OH NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so sorry to hear that about the meat chicks.
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I don't know what kind it is.
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I hope that it is a dead kind?
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It is now that I found a sharper shovel. I have kids that play in the same yard so I need to know if it poses any risk to them. The snake was smart, it broke threw a weak spot in the chicken wire (on top) to get in but couldn't get out. I had to crawl into the run to get it. Funny thing is that I have never seen anything but a garden snake that steals eggs every now and then from the ducks. I used the same run with the laying hens and never had a problem then either.
 
CackedNut said:
So sorry to hear about your chicks! That's terrible!
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That looks like a BIG snake...how long was it?
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Not sure, I haven't measured it yet. I think most of the size was my poor little chicks. On the bright side my chicks are munching down what looks like baby snakes. Instead of keep away they are playing tug of war until they "pop". I am not going to stop their revenge for their siblings.
 
foreverlearning said:
CackedNut said:
So sorry to hear about your chicks! That's terrible!
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That looks like a BIG snake...how long was it?
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Not sure, I haven't measured it yet. I think most of the size was my poor little chicks. On the bright side my chicks are munching down what looks like baby snakes. Instead of keep away they are playing tug of war until they "pop". I am not going to stop their revenge for their siblings.
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Did you get a count of how many chicks that it killed? Did it swallow them? Bite them? What happened? Too bad you don't have guineas (or do you). They would have tore him UP!!!
 
I need some advice about getting guineas. I want about 6 guineas. Not sure why I came up with this number...it just sounded good. Room is not an issue. Here is the question. We will be putting our house up for sale in Feb. or March (10 acres with house). We will then build our new home on the property (20 acres) next door. All animals will be making the move. Moving the chicken coop and run should be great fun. NOT! If I get guineas now, will they "move" with us to the new place next door, or will I have difficulty getting them to adjust because of the proximity to the "old" house? Can I get them now, or would it be the "grown up" thing to wait until we are at the "new place"? Thoughts?
Thanks,
Laurie
 
kuntrygirl said:
Did you get a count of how many chicks that it killed? Did it swallow them? Bite them? What happened? Too bad you don't have guineas (or do you). They would have tore him UP!!!
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Just finished head count. It got 4. It keep trying to coil up when I grabbed it and tried to pull it straight so I hope it swallowed them. No I don't have any Guineas yet, I was thinking about getting some but not sure if I have the money in the budget until next week. Mostly, I need to know if they can be housed with the chickens or if I need to build housing for them. Also, I have no clue on what to feed them. I was going to spend this week researching them and then buy some as I have heard so many great things about them.
 
foreverlearning said:
Does anyone know what kind of snake this is? It took out an unknown number of meat chicks today. The shovel is one of those kids wood and metal shovels.


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https://www.google.com/search?q=bla...m52AXtrYDgDA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=623

It is a black rat snake or in other words around here anything that eats chicken eggs and/or biddies is a "chicken snake" thats a big mamma one more than likely. I killed one in the garage the other night over 6 ft long and had been eating my setting hens eggs and some new borns too. I fixed its wagon right quick and fast and in a hurry.

Jeff
 
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