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I found the 2 egg theives yesterday but was unable to dispose of them the way I prefer to. Other words, they got away only to come back and steal more eggs. One was a chicken snake and the other a cotton mouth. As far as i'm concerned they are both dangerous. If not bitten I can hurt myself if startled by them. And thats what nearly happened with the chicken snake. I was standing just about a foot away from it when I noticed it. I was waiting for the cotton mouth to come back out of hiding when I looked to my right ans saw it wrapped around a branch on a brush pile. Directly next to me on the left was a converted rabbit hutch that holds guinea keets in one side and a pair of silkies in the other. No where to go but back wards or forwards where the cotton mouth was. Today the hunt will be on again when I and DH get home.
Do what Bren suggested, drape some garden netting loosely around where the snakes are coming and going around the base of the hutch. They get tangled in it. The trick is laying it down so its puddled.
Wish I could keep them all!
