Peacocks and snakes

[nickel chick]

This is the second time I have gone down to my peacocks pen ( Picassio) to find he had killed a Gardener snake and was eating it. This one looked as though it had eaten a mouse. We have a lot of these snake in the yard and are nonvenomous (sp?). My worry is will these make him sick or give him worms or parasites.
He has been caught eating frogs too. Thank God that lil chipmonk ran in and thought better of it because he was ready to pounce and that one I couldn't have taken. the snakes were bad enough.

 

[thndrdancr]

Well in India they are known as cobra killers. Mine kill small snakes but not sure if they eat them or not. I read somewhere baby snakes are great protein for them.

 

[Birdrain92]

This is the second time I have gone down to my peacocks pen ( Picassio) to find he had killed a Gardener snake and was eating it. This one looked as though it had eaten a mouse. We have a lot of these snake in the yard and are nonvenomous (sp?). My worry is will these make him sick or give him worms or parasites.
He has been caught eating frogs too. Thank God that lil chipmonk ran in and thought better of it because he was ready to pounce and that one I couldn't have taken. the snakes were bad enough.

Peafowl will eat reptiles and small rodents/mammals.

Well in India they are known as cobra killers. Mine kill small snakes but not sure if they eat them or not. I read somewhere baby snakes are great protein for them.

I would guess that snakes or any other animal would give them lots of protein.

 

[nickel chick]

OK Thanks