SNAKE!!!!!!!!!

[mom'sfolly]

I feel the same way about cockroaches....see the phobia thread. They give me the heebee jeebees.

 

[joerogrz]

Watersnakes will eat more than what they find in streams. For example, eggs from waterfowl and other birds that nest near water. Since I live only a couple hundred yards from a creek, it's very probable that the watersnake (which made a nice meal for Mr. Fred who patrols that creek and the nearby field) knew my chickens were there and that they laid eggs for it to eat.

Now who am I to turn down a chance to give Fred (or Freda) an easy meal. I love hawks. I want them to stay as long as they leave my chickens alone.

Let's break it down for the watersnake...

First the good points.
-It eats rodents and probably several insects.
-It eats small nuisance species of birds like House Sparrows and European Starlings.

The bad points.
-It eats eggs.
-It freaks my chickens out.
-It smells really bad.
-It was in my shop trying to find a place to shed it's skin.
-I'm sure it carries some diseases too since it eats rodents.

And yes, you are right about the pic I posted. It was wrong. I will remove it when I finish this post. Besides, it saves me the hassle of wasting gas to relocate it.

 

[joebryant]

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I had relocated it the day before! I killed it because it ticked me off!

My coop is now snake proof and I haven't gone and killed every snake on my 5 acres!! I really want to but DH talked me out of it.

Well, you tried. Too bad that it came back. I know how you feel though; one time I was madder'n a hornet when a snake was in my bluebird house after having eaten the babies. I tried to kill it then, but it got away. I saw it in the same bb box a few days later after I'd cooled down. I put a large, black-plastic trashbag over the box and pulled the box off the post. I took the box/snake about two miles down the road, opened the plastic bag and couldn't believe the SIZE of the blacksnake that came out of that small box. That snake was HUMONGOUS and long. I still can't imagine how it fit in that little wooden bb house.

 

[Lil Chickie Mama]

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[Whispering Winds]

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Maybe you should rub a fresh on it to give it an egg smell.

 

[theOEGBman]

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Well put. I would never kill a snake, venomous or not. Relocating is not that difficult, if people would just take the time to do it. Many people scare the livin' daylights outta me, but I cant go around chopping off their heads.


Proud owner of 7 snakes, with more on the way.