I mentioned yesterday that I hadn't seen a snake yet this season and that they're coming out of hibernation now, and they're hungry. Well, my wait is over! This afternoon my son discovered a four-and-a-half-foot black rat snake in our house! It was coming out of the brooder room and into the hallway. We cornered it, and he caught it.
Unfortunately, it ate and regurgitated one of my wife's 4-week-old partridge silkies. The top of the brooder was two-and-a-half feet above ground level. Looks like I will be moving all my brooders to four feet above ground level.
The snake came in through a hole in the closet that was drilled by the cable company. The size of the hole is (you guessed it!) about the size of a nickel. Anyway, here are some photos (Son insisted I use a blur to hide his identity...lol):
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Awe, so sad! Poor little baby silkie!