Snake!!!!

[CCourson05]

So today it was the warmest in MS it's been all year. So I was going out with my old man to show my new Polish roo his roost was not the lip of the hen's besting box, and my old man stepped over a copperhead. I saw it because he had it's head up and mouth open. Anyway, we got a hoe and killed it. Does anyone know if I do all this will it keep snakes at bay...? I plan on putting a line of sulfur and then scattering moth balls all around the coop... I have guineas, but this snake was one of the longest copperheads I have ever seen. I usually just see short fat ones. This one was long, and semi-fat. It was leaving my run.

 

[mississippifarmboy]

I've heard mothballs help, but haven't tried it here.
Last year was the worst year I've ever seen for snakes here in Mississippi. I sure hope your experiance doesn't mean it'll be that way again this year. We had a lot of timber rattlers last year and dozens of others.

 

[CCourson05]

It was a nice day though. Lol. But we have small children around our coop, and would like to try and get this fixed before they all start waking up from their sleeping winter breaks.

 

[TajMaChicken]

I am in Hernando, MS. We have certainly noticed a rise in the Copperhead population around here. I have seen more in the last two years than in the previous ten. They seem to be larger as well. We put out sulfur, it seemed to help. I have also made an effort to have a truce with the king snakes and rat snakes. Their presence seems to keep the nastier snakes away especially the kings. I have seen a pair of them herd a Cottonmouth all the way off our property.

 

[CCourson05]

We have a 6'+ king snake living in our barn which is literally 3 ftfrom our coop, but apparently this copperhead had it's ticket to the run. I'll try the sulfur this weekend. The worst thing is that we had about five 4-year olds out at the coop less than 5 hours before the snake's death. Scary.

Ps- hernando isnt far from me at all. In fact, my cousin who is a family nurse practioner owns a few clinics there.

 

[celticbird]

Ill share a tidbit I have learned. In my garden I have a bunch of that nylon black bird netting. The snakes get tangled in that stuff like madddd. So around my chicken area I drove in stakes and wrapped that stuff around 2 feet high and buried it 3 in. Mannnnnn do I catch them.

 

[msudawgs56]

I'm in Grenada, Ms and we have had a lot of Copperheads here also. Killed two at my backdoor last year. The year before we spread "Snake-Away" around the kid's area. Didn't have any snakes that year. I think it is mostly sulfur. Wouldn't hurt to try and see.

 

[CCourson05]

Yeah, I plan to put a line of sulfur around. Yesterday, my cousin killed 6 cottonmouths in his yard... so in MS, it was warm enough to wake up. I saw it leaving my run, but I think it was just passing through from my barn.

 

[aggie9296]

Snake Away is sulfur and napthalene (mothballs). It's supposed to work on most snakes.

 

[EasterEggersRULE]

Just leting you know moth balls,snake repellent ect.... does NOT work i own pet snakes and experimented with it they just crawled right over . You best bet is sticky glue traps scented with mouse thats how i catch mine when they get out in the house. But i am telling you moth balls, sulfur and snake repellents DO NOT work. The reason it came to the coop was it smelled mouse or other rodent. Good luck keeping the copper head population down.