ArkRescue
Adopt me please !
For the 1st time in 3 + years of having chickens I found a HUGE snake (6 or 7 feet long?) in the nest box on Saturday - I ALMOST stuck my hand in there (was getting dark but saw that dark mass wrapped around the eggs) ! I promptly made noise and stomped (vibrations) and the snake took off. I hoped being disturbed would deter the snake from coming back AND I left that particular nest box outside of the chicken pen hoping if the snake went back to that box and found no eggs it would move on?
On Sunday I checked the remaining nest boxes every few hours and on the 3rd check I found a snake in one with a mouth full of egg. Well I got the shovel and killed that snake. It had apparently been eating the eggs for many months, and it took me that long to catch it. Now I know why I kept finding what appeared to be egg contents on the other eggs yet no broken shells. That snake has been eating my eggs since it came out of hibernation it seems. I wish I could have relocated it, but it was so big/long I didn't want to try to catch it and risk being bitten.
What can I do to keep snakes out of my chicken coop?
On Sunday I checked the remaining nest boxes every few hours and on the 3rd check I found a snake in one with a mouth full of egg. Well I got the shovel and killed that snake. It had apparently been eating the eggs for many months, and it took me that long to catch it. Now I know why I kept finding what appeared to be egg contents on the other eggs yet no broken shells. That snake has been eating my eggs since it came out of hibernation it seems. I wish I could have relocated it, but it was so big/long I didn't want to try to catch it and risk being bitten.
What can I do to keep snakes out of my chicken coop?