SECONDS AWAY FROM LOSING MY 4 WEEK OLDS!!!!!!

[amyquilt]

What about moth balls around the coop? My neighbor told me that she swears by moth balls keeping mice and snakes away.

There's another thread on snake control, someplace.

 

[lovemychicks9]

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Yes you can use this in a organic setting. It is absolutley nothing except powdered sulphur. Just plain old yellow powder no nothing extra. I got it at my feed store , they sell the broken 50 pound bags for 8.00 and I intend to use it faithfully after I saw how fast that snake took off, I swear to you he moved like he was on fire ! I am scared to death of snakes , but when it came to defending my babies, he got the half a butter tub of yellow powder on him and I hope is is still burning. This sulphur will not harm kids, dogs, cats ,chickens . the only thing you will need to do is re-apply after a hard rain. I use it about 1 a week and I go around a coop and run that is 20 x 36 and a fifty pound bag has lasted me 2 months easily! Rooster red thanks so much for the tip and I am going tomorrow to get the stuff and fix the cement. thanks sooo much. Trudy

 

[lovemychicks9]

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From what I was told by the lady who owns the feed store and has been in farming and raising all kind of animals, the snakes hate it, they will not crawl through it as it burns the skin in thier belly's. I proved that right as when I through the tub of sulphur on him he literally looked as if he tried to hop across the path of it and he moved soo fast out away from the coop I made him a nice wide path ALL the way around coops and runs and put some just inside the door of the baby coop until I can fix the door. If he crosses that he really is a dumb snake.

 

[Guitartists]

Can someone explain why it would burn a snake but be safe for us, dogs, cat AND chickens? I'm more than a bit baffled by this. Is there something about snake skin that makes them sensitive to it?

 

[lovemychicks9]

Snakes have a differnt type of skin then people chikckens, dogs and cats. It will not absorb into our type of skin but it does into a snake. We need to get a reptile person to explain it, I want to say they have like gills but I know that is not right. Okay snake people please help us out here.

 

[Solsken Farm]

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ME TOO!!!!!!! ME TOO!!!!!!!!!! ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[basicliving]

I don't know if this will work for you, but we screwed together 2 pieces of wood, a 2 X 4 attached to a 1 X 4, that conforms to the door frame. The 2 X 4 portion (visible in the below picture) fits snugly on the frame so that the door closes against it and there is no gap. The back portion (1X4) fits snugly to the wider portion of the frame. This helps keep the litter in the coop and insures there is no gap when the door is closed. We used scrap lumber and 4 screws and it took about 5 minutes.

I'm so happy the snake didn't get your babies!

Penny