Egg-Eating SNAKE!

[SweetMissDaisy]

Here's what we dealt with last night in the chicken yard ...
An entire photo series of the egg swallowing process here:
http://sweetmissdaisy.typepad.com/sassy_sweet_notes/2011/06/an-egg-eating-snake.html

 

[Ridgerunner]

About a week ago I found a five foot black snake in a nest. It had swallowed a golf ball. I'm pretty sure this was the same snake that ate the eggs out from under a broody last summer, just a foot or so longer this year.

I did not deal with it as generously as you did yours. I like having non-poisonous snakes around, but not when they are in the nest eating eggs.

 

[wifezilla]

AAAhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!





Hee hee hee. I general I think snakes are cool. But not when they steal eggs!

 

[mare]

I found one in my garden probably on its way to get an egg. Unfortunately for him he got wrapped up in some bird netting. My husband tried saving it but it was too late. I was careful before when weeding in the garden, but now I carry a stick to pull back any plants to make sure there are no surprises hiding underneath anything.

 

[lesa]

That really doesn't look comfortable! I think I would break the egg and just eat the insides! Good for you, for being kind to it....

 

[Southern Gardener]

I would have been screaming like a girl! Oh, I am a girl!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

My in-laws in Red Bluff CA used to have a problem with rattlesnakes on their 20 acres. So they periodically tossed golf balls around and over time they and the rattlers would disappear!

Hard to digest a golf ball...

 

[journey11]

I had two pink marble dummy eggs in the nest boxes this spring (for the chickens to learn where to lay) and I suspect a snake took them. Surely any other critter wouldn't bother rolling them out of the nest and taking them away? I guarantee you those snakes had a belly ache! Unfortunately, my MIL had only loaned them to me and wanted them back...

 

[Carol Dee]

wifezilla and sothern gardener have it right !
Too many snakes around your place these days.
(watch where you step!)

 

[RidgebackRanch]

I got to thinking the other night during feeding chores. Maybe I shouldn't be sticking my hand into the goat house blindly in the dark for the one usual egg I find in there. It's that time of year, by the way that is a HUGE snake!