- Aug 7, 2012
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The chicks were finding way out! They were trying to escape.. When ever chickens die the others don't eat them. No really worried about mice, we have 9 cats of our own and at least 2 strays that we never see anymore. They are all pretty good mousers. And as long as the snakes leave us and our critters alone, we will leave them alone.I have had 2 chicks, from 2 different hatches, disappear off the face of the earth from a coop that a MOUSE can't get in. It's predator proof. I strongly suspect that the chickens killed those 2 and ate them. Both of them were the runts of the hatch...so they may have died of natural causes and then been eaten. No way to know.
I hope you get that snake, just cuz it might have eaten your chick....but don't kill them all or you will be overrun with rodents and chicken feed draws rodents, so you don't want that.
I know I have snakes around here and I just leave them alone, hoping they will eat any mice that are trying to get into my coop. (I have hardware cloth covered with dirt as the bottom of my run so they can't even burrow in.)