Snake Deterants

[chickengeorgeto]

Adding a snake to your chicken coop or pen is dangerous to your health. The reason being that snakes are low key and they are easy to forget about. However regardless of which snake that you employ to guard your coop, when you suddenly "REDISCOVER" a snake hiding behind a feed bag or slithering out from under a board you may just seriously injure yourself getting away.

 

[SimplyLivinthatFarmLife]

I heard of black snakes eating eggs also, so i'm really shocked to hear of one actually being placed in a coop intentionally..

If one is in my coop, it won't be because I put it there...that's for sure!

 

[SimplyLivinthatFarmLife]

Adding a snake to your chicken coop or pen is dangerous to your health. The reason being that snakes are low key and they are easy to forget about. However regardless of which snake that you employ to guard your coop, when you suddenly "REDISCOVER" a snake hiding behind a feed bag or slithering out from under a board you may just seriously injure yourself getting away.

My point exactly!

 

[Silkienut]

Adding a snake to your chicken coop or pen is dangerous to your health. The reason being that snakes are low key and they are easy to forget about. However regardless of which snake that you employ to guard your coop, when you suddenly "REDISCOVER" a snake hiding behind a feed bag or slithering out from under a board you may just seriously injure yourself getting away.

That would be me. I can see me nowrunning all over the back yard screaming for help!! Then passing out!!Thanks for your reply..

 

[sixinva]

They def eat eggs.....and freak out the girls

 

[imnukensc]

Watched one of my chickens eat a very small (~10") snake a couple of days ago. After beating it senseless, she sucked that thing down like a piece of spaghetti.

 

[Boonie Stomper]

I do understand... But when i found the snake it was trying to get in the coop via my front porch. I went to open front door and got startled -both of us- and i got my first snake bite and I panicked. It was black but also had a pattern so had to be looked up to see if it spelled trouble. It was a black rat snake.

I of course caught the snake first. Then I saw a mouse run across the coop litter so i released the snake to go in and git"em. Only grown hens in there. Eggs not being taken. Snake not that big. Anyway if it keeps disease carrying rodents and dangerous kinds of snakes away i would not mind the loss of the odd egg now and then.

 

[RWise]

I found a black snake with its head under a hen, a chick half swallowed. I keep golf balls, 1 in each nest, the snake swallows it but cannot pass it,, by by snake!

 

[Garyoutlaw]

Being an avid reptile hunter & ADC worker in another life I have caught many o snake around out buildings & coops. In doing that I have seen all sorts of attempts at "snake proofing"..moth balls rock salt pepper broken glass you name it and have yet to see anything that really works other than clearing the desirable habitat with catch & relocate being the best thing.