OMG...Dont put your hand in the nesting box!!!

[imfowl]

Here to eat the mice? Hmmm... Looks like an egg in his mouth to me. He's gotten a taste of eggs and he doesn't have to expend energy chasing them like mice. He will be back. Please kill him before you get bit.

 

[nancypo]

OMG, yes that would be a shock!!!

 

[hudsonhousechicks]

Holy moley and count yer fingers!

 

[BloominOrchid]

So help the snake I find in my coop...Im the Queen around here... OFF WITH HIS HEAD!

 

[foxyloxy]

ACK! Oh my word... I would absolutely die... right there on the spot... And I'm sorry to those who love snakes n' stuff... but he would be dead dead Fred. I wouldn't chance having a predator come back! If anything for the safety of my chickens... and my little ones who reach into the nest boxes to collect eggs.... *shuddddder*... oh man, I didn't even think of the kids before now.... oh dear, I hope I don't have nightmares...

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I would have seriously thought about giving up my chickens. For a few moments.

Uh...wow.

 

[fl_deb]

I truely believe that my chickens would be eating my dead body within minutes, if I reach in the nest box and ever grab anything other than a hen or an egg.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

OMG, I just passed out....he is beautiful, and I will NOT allow them to stay on my property if I catch them in my hen house...although last week I saw a copperhead near my Alpaca pen, and all I kept thinking was ...MAN if I hadn't killed those black snakes in the hen house I might not have this bugger looking at my leg...but needless to say I killed him immediately.

 

[bburn]

You know, I did not kill the 4ft black snake that was in my garden. Then I did not kill the one that was in my garage. However, I did kill the copperhead that was going to my coop. I would rather have to fish a black snake out of the nest than a copperhead.

BUT, if there ends up being a snake of any kind in a nest with eggs or in the hen house with my chickens I will dispatch it neatly and I will never see THAT snake again. I see the need for a black snake to eat mice or rats in the out buildings.....but it is my job to protect the chickens and the eggs from anything that would harm.

(and after the copperhead ran over my toe going to the hen house I was SURE it was gonna be dead soon!!)

 

[darkmatter]

Good for you.....present of mind to go get a camera.........

I don't kill any snake I see----they serve a valuable role in the ecosystem-----I do kill the venomous ones, if you kill any snake you see another will take its place and may be a venomous one.

For a problem egg eating snake, you can blow out an egg and fill it with salt and put it back in the nest. That will target only the one eating eggs.