Snakes

[Caseyvdb]

How can you keep snakes from chicken that are mostly free roaming

 

[ChassiNoir]

What kind and what size? If they’re small enough and not poisonous, the chickens will take care of the problem for you; at least ours do. They treat them like moving spaghetti noodles.

 

[TexasLisa]

Mine play Snake Football with the small snakes!

 

[svh]

I have an over abundance of snakes of various colors and flavors, including venomous copperheads, and the occasional rattler.

My chooks free range daily, and have never had a problem, except for the occasional egg eating serpent, entering through an open coop door ..... They don't seem interested in the full sized chickens, but I imagine a smaller chick might be in danger.

I've seen the birds stepping over a 7 foot black snake to get to the nest box !

I was worried at first about the copperheads, as all three of my dogs have been bitten in the past, but truthfully, I haven't seen one in 2 years ..... I think the chickens made em move along to a more secure area.

That said, I do not have a rodent problem, I believe from the presence of the snakes, which provides a natural balance of predator, and prey. I have only dispatched a couple of egg eating snakes, and leave the rest for the reasons stated above.

Your Mileage May Vary .....

 

[CluckerFamily]

I have garter snakes in my area. My chickens eat them.
What kind of snakes are in your area?

 

[TexasLisa]

We have a nice variety here....black snakes, copperheads, kings snake, rattlesnakes, garter, ring-neck, cottonmouth.....

 

[Caseyvdb]

I have garter snakes in my area. My chickens eat them.
What kind of snakes are in your area?

We have red belly black snakes and pythons , dead adder . tiger snakes.
The pythons are common and can eat a small dog

 

[Bobohunter1776]

We have red belly black snakes and pythons , dead adder . tiger snakes.
The pythons are common and can eat a small dog

That sounds fun. In Colorado we have rattlesnakes on the plains and a few spots in the mountains but you usually take care of those with a shovel or 12 gauge.

 

[Caseyvdb]

I'm so glad we have very nice gun laws in Australia so not to many people have guns. and shovels are for gardening not for killing