Thank you all for the support I don't like killing snakes round here cause they do keep the field mouse population down but I'll be danged all to heck (cleaned up version) if I will let one eat my chickens
Twentynine,
"what was all the running around for?" well here is the case I have a grow out pen in my big coop it is just T post's and chain link fencing with no real way to get into it I have to stand on a cinder block to get the waterer and I am 6'1" tall so you can imagin how tall this is. First problem I had a crappy flashlight, snake was inside the chain link fence, I couldn't see the snakes head even though he had the chicken half down, (it was the angle he was laying) plus I had 2 little ones that I was going to place in the grow out pen (one in each hand) My wife who is affraid of snakes holding said flashlight (yeah that was fun try focusing with a little crappy pen flashlight while your wife is freaking out while you try to kill a snake who's head you can't see but when I did hit him I only clipped him he spit out the chicken then hauled into an area where I couldn't not reach him at so I went and got the bb gun the fun part came after when I was trying to fish him out of the area where he was.
Needless to say the chain link now opens.
Marthas_ear,
I grew up in a family that was hunters and fisherman we respect the land and the animals that live off the land.
So to kill a predator is no big deal to me as I said I respect the land but even enter into my area and start to eat one of mine Bad news for you I will protect mine and if that means shooting human or beast so be it I can sleep at night just as well knowing that my faimly is safe (which includes my animals).
