Black Snake chicken house and plastic eggs

old · Jul 14, 2013

Ok so been having a problem with black snakes eating duck eggs. So in the last week now I have had 2 duck eggs and 2 plastic eggs with golf balls etc in side them. Appears that the snake has eaten both the duck eggs and the plastic eggs. So will this kill the snake or can they just throw them back up and keep coming back and bugging me

samn40 · Jul 14, 2013

I now nothing about snakes....we don't have any in Ireland....but you could get an eagle,a birdie or a hole in one....LOL
Sam

ohiojim · Jul 14, 2013

my guess is he will throw them up, can't imagine them being passed

keh · Jul 14, 2013

Daughter has chickens. Her small children had a toy wooden egg(you know where this is going, don't you?) Daughter used the toy egg as a nest egg, snake came along an swallowed the egg. One thing led to another, and the snake wound up dead and the toy egg was removed from the body. The granddaughter decided she didn't want the toy egg that had been in the snake back. Anyway, I can't answer as to whether the wooden eggs will kill the snake.

KEH

farmerjohn · Jul 14, 2013

Just guessing but I think the snake will die from the egg not digesting.

60 acre hillside · Jul 14, 2013

My dad came to the farm I now live on in 1908. He told me of seeing a white object in a field he had burned and was black from the grass fire. On looking for the white object he discovered that it was his china nest egg that had been missing for several months, Then he remembered killing a black snake he had found in a nest and throwing the dead snake over the fence into the field

CaseDC3 · Jul 14, 2013

Ha.. That day in March is celebrated for St. Patrick and his snakes. I'll raise a glass to that!!

M-MAN · Jul 14, 2013

You're supposed to use an old porcelain door knob. Much easier to dispose of when it traps him.

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Jul 14, 2013

That brought back some memories. we used to have some laying boxes on a wall in one of our sheds. We were having a problem with a snake getting eggs, but could never catch it out there. One day I went out to gather eggs, and the snake had crawled up into one of the boxes, and swallowed a glass "setting" egg, then through a knot hole and swallowed another one. We had to cut it in half to get it out.

Hay_Man · Jul 14, 2013

I have used golf balls. I did kill the snake when I found him all stretched out trying to pass the golf ball, so I guess you could say it caused him to die....... :shock:

js305 · Jul 14, 2013

I didn't know how snakes ate eggs until I saw one "working on digesting" a pigeon egg. Since I don't care for those birds I didn't bother the snake. We don't have any chickens anyway.

This one was working it's way through a hole in a piece of metal that was just barely big enough to get his head started. Turns out they swallow the egg whole and break it by going through a hole or a fork in a tree, etc. Less waste that way I guess. Around here we have lots of bull snakes and racers. Sometimes I relocate them but normally I don't bother them. They work on the mice better than the wild cats around.

Black Snake chicken house and plastic eggs

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