Using Deer Netting To Keep Snakes Out Of Run & Coop

[chellyroo]

A couple of my hens have just started laying eggs (as of Sunday! Whoo hoo!) & today my husband went to check on them around noon and found a 5ft black snake in the coop eating the sole egg. I saw an older post on this website about using deer netting to keep snakes out but I couldn't get a clear idea of how to use it--put it entirely over the run? Just around the edges? Someone wrote to let it bunch up at the bottom....can anyone offer some clarification? I oculdn't believe I lost one of the few eggs the girls have laid!

 

[speckledhen]

The only experience with deer netting and snakes is twice when I had to have my DH hold the entangled snake so I could cut it loose. Somehow, those fat snakes manage to get themselves into the small holes in it. I'm sure they would just die there since they cannot get out.

 

[Violet22]

I can't find the post where the guy showed the snakes he caught.......I *think* he said to roll up the netting...bird or deer......in a tight log, then a looser roll around it. The snake goes in the larger area and gets all tangled. If you search snake, netting, bird or deer there are a number of posts on it. I think most just roll it up and put it around the bottom. I imagine there are a number of ways you can bunch it at the bottom for them to get caught in.

 

[jus1jack]

Here is the old post on a snake trap. You can use catch and release with this method or do what you will.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=212238&p=1
http://www.cuent.com/cue folder/pdf's/Howto-snake netting.pdf

 

[Violet22]

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Yeah that's the one I was looking for!! YUCK!!!!!! I'd have to call someone to come get them for me!!

 

[Sillystunt]

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Thank you for tramitizing me again with that pic....LOL

hey i am in Polk county. You should make it to one of our swap/sales. My link is the one in jan and then there is one in sept in newberry

 

[jus1jack]

Sorry

It is graphic but ya knew that...