SNAKE!!!!!!!!!

[Teach97]

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Dang...that is hot

Guineas are good against snakes as are hogs. I personally understand why folks kill them out of fear...you should see me and spiders...well actually I usually scream and run...but occasionally I have shot a few with a shotgun and might have set fire to a few others...fear is fear!!

Folks just gotta realize without them you gotta control rodents another way! Like little kids hiding out with BB guns!

 

[cwc362]

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I couldn't find the BB's for the Daisy Red Rider, but I found the 22s!!!!! I put a few more holes in the milk crate that I use as a nestbox. Nothing big! I should have take pictures

After I removed it from the nest, all the chickens came over and pecked at it! Like, "HA-HA SHE GOT YOU!" I didn't let them bother it for very long. I wasn't aware of the nerves, in them. I figured that it would move a little, but that thing wiggled for amost 1/2 hour!! My dogs didn't know what to think!

I've cut the head off a snake before and the next day when burning trash, I threw the snake in it because it was stinking already. It crawled out!!!!!

 

[Blueroo63]

I had guineas and all they do is make lots of noise, but if you want a snake killer get buckeye's they will gang up on the snake a peek it to death,little snake or big ones buckeyes will getem

 

[THough1956]

What is a buckeye?!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

This is what I was told by someone years ago, & I tried it, & apparently it works, because I have never had a problem w/snakes in the nests ever since.

He told me to put an old used lightbulb in the nest. The snake thinks it's an egg, swallows it, & then when it goes to crush it inside the bulb breaks & kills the snake.

 

[cwc362]

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http://feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Buck/BRKBuckeye.html

here is another link that gives a little more detail about the buckeyes

http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/buckeye.html

 

[Southern Chickens]

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WHAT'S A BUCKEYE?? I agree, about the noise. I can't stand that racket! My mom loves them!

 

[Laura78]

What about turkeys and geese? Will they attack a snake? We don't have too many snakes around here, and the ones I've seen are small snakes. Though they're large enough to eat eggs.

 

[the Old Rebel]

We have guineas, turkeys, chickens, peacocks, and ducks. We used to see snakes all the time. We had one Eastern king snake that was HUGE. It ate 17 turkey eggs out from under the setting mama turkey (not all at once). That's how it got so huge, methinks. But since we got the guineas and the peacocks, we just don't see snakes anymore. Now we have rats. Maybe there is something to be said for the black snake or Eastern king. Maybe they aren't so bad after all.

Of course, I've bottle-fed at least 3 baby rats. They are incredible creatures ----- very smart and very social. So maybe there is much to be said for the balance of nature....... snakes, eggs, corn, rats, etc.

 

[Laura78]

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Geese are suppose to take care of rat problems.