How about cats? My grandpa's old cat, Molly, used to kill snakes all the
time. She even killed a couple of rattlesnakes that we know of.
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On 6/1/14 2:15 PM, "Tina Manley" <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Our German Shepherd doesn't do snakes. She is great against coyotes,
>possums, squirrels, and racoons but snakes are too sneaky for her. A
>mongoose is a great idea. I'm not sure there are any in South Carolina,
>though! You would think the geese would be able to protect their own, but
>we interrupted a black snake trying to swallow a goose egg from the nest
>and the goose pair were just hissing at it. We caught one in the guinea
>house that looked like it had swallowed an egg but when we cut it open, it
>was a golf ball that I put in the nest boxes to encourage the chickens to
>lay there. The snake would have died anyway trying to process the golf
>ball! I've put several more out in the hope that the remaining snakes
>will
>be tempted to swallow them.
>
>Tina
>
>
>On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that looks very pleasant, Tina. Is there nothing any of your other
>> animals will do to protect against snakes? Perhaps a mongoose or two
>>would
>> deter the snakes.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 1 Jun 2014, at 14:56, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > I've been spending a lot of time in the chicken house lately because
>>the
>> > baby geese are hatching and being eaten by black snakes. We've lost
>>4 so
>> > far. Caught two black snakes and cut them open but the babies were
>> already
>> > dead. Normally, we would take the snakes out in the pasture and let
>>them
>> > go, but not when they are eating my goslings! I know there is one
>>behind
>> > the hay bales in the chicken house but we can't catch him. I'm
>>standing
>> > guard over the goose nest. Luckily, it's a pleasant place to be:
>> >
>> > http://www.pbase.com/image/155897375
>> >
>> > C&C greatly appreciated.
>>
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