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5X
Jul 2020
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GemDigger
(4,305 posts)1. Yikes, Snake!!!!
MontanaMama
(23,307 posts)2. Is that snake an egg eater?
Damn. That gives me the willies.
5X
(3,972 posts)3. Yes, it is a king snake and it will eat eggs and babies.
The blue birds have moved on for the year but I will have to put a snake guard on it before spring.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,748 posts)4. King snakes might look scary , but they eat mice, rats
And they are harmless to us. They can be quite large, which is a bit intimidating. When I lived in the Texas Hill Country, I once found a shed skin of a king snake that was about 7-8 ft long
5X
(3,972 posts)5. We have lots of them and I don't usually mess with them.
We had a 6 to 8 footer living in our chicken house.
Mosby
(16,299 posts)6. Did it steal eggs?
5X
(3,972 posts)7. A few, but usually went after the mice.
It tried to eat a pullet once, but it was too big for it and it spit it out. The pullet did not survive.
Nitram
(22,791 posts)8. Black Rat Snakes also eat bird' eggs.