Snake eats my hen eggs

[april81]

Hello, i have a few hens in my garden, i built a roost for them to sleep by night and to lay eggs. The problem is the eggs disappear because of a cobra, i saw him but i can’t catch him. What can i do ? Is there any trap or poison for snake ? Thanks a lot

[PiPiFFS]

Cobra's I believe eat other snakes rather than hens eggs. Just because you have seen a snake in the area doesn't mean it is responsible for the lack of eggs. Maybe the fact the snake has located in your garden has scared the hens enough to stop laying ?

[april81]

Cobra's I believe eat other snakes rather than hens eggs. Just because you have seen a snake in the area doesn't mean it is responsible for the lack of eggs. Maybe the fact the snake has located in your garden has scared the hens enough to stop laying ?

Ok may be it's not a cobra ate the eggs because i saw 2 species, the cobra and i saw a golden tree snake around there but everytimes my hens lays the eggs disappears and it's not the rats because there is any trace of broken eggs

[Totster]

Plant lemongrass around the roost, apparently snakes don't like it.

totster:)

[cornishcarlos]

Build a proper chicken coop, make it snake proof.... Happy chickens, happy eggs

Don't kill snakes just cause you lost an egg !! Cobras do eat eggs and other snakes.. Golden Tree snakes don't eat eggs..

[Jotham79]

I have heard that you can make a tiny hole in an egg and inject the poison. Cover the hole with a small bit of mud. The problem with this is that you are not certain who or what is stealing your eggs and poison is very indiscriminate. You could also get a gill net from a fishing supply store and put it around your coop. Your chooks should be able to fly over. Make the mesh small enough to prevent an egg from passing through so the snake may enter, but won't be able to leave.

[pigeonjake]

I have heard that you can make a tiny hole in an egg and inject the poison. Cover the hole with a small bit of mud. The problem with this is that you are not certain who or what is stealing your eggs and poison is very indiscriminate. You could also get a gill net from a fishing supply store and put it around your coop. Your chooks should be able to fly over. Make the mesh small enough to prevent an egg from passing through so the snake may enter, but won't be able to leave.

funny you should say these,

as ive done both, i inject eggs, as its a crow that comes and gets mine, it will come into and around our pig pens looking for eggs in the boxes, so i inject the odd ones with poison, they fly off with them,

and as for the net if you look at our farm photos, youll see i have the white plastic net all round our farm, concrete posts first, 8 strands on barbed wire, then the net 2 mtrs high, then around the bottom corrigated tin, the snakes get there head and part way through and get stuck, cant go forward carnt go back,

i fount it out by accident as a snake was on the roof of our pig pen, jumped down when saw me coming, swam accros our pond, tried to get through the net that was keeping our ducks in and got stuck,, i thought now that is a good idea, so thats what we have above,,

jake

[ezzra]

Get your self a Mongoose as a second pet...

[winstonc]

snakes ..if they are the villians of this huge egg heist.are only doing natures thing...surely you can afford a couple less eggs...maybe your neighbours are having them away......

[tonytigerbkk]

Cobra's I believe eat other snakes rather than hens eggs. Just because you have seen a snake in the area doesn't mean it is responsible for the lack of eggs. Maybe the fact the snake has located in your garden has scared the hens enough to stop laying ?

Actually, normal cobras (of the Naja genus) do eat eggs, the King Cobra is the one that only eats snakes.

[nickcar]

Get some geese. I used to have masses of cobras here but haven't seen one for years since i was advised to get geese.

[soalbundy]

kill it, i killed 5 during the course of a year in my garden last year with a shovel. I wouldn't normally advocate killing but my garden has high walls and they would find it difficult to find their way out and i have a small inquisitive son,rather the snake dies than my son.

[fxe1200]

kill it, i killed 5 during the course of a year in my garden last year with a shovel. I wouldn't normally advocate killing but my garden has high walls and they would find it difficult to find their way out and i have a small inquisitive son,rather the snake dies than my son.

Live and let live.

When snakes can come into your garden, despite the walls, then they will find their way out. Killing is no option, especially if you do not exactly know, what kind of snake you are killing.

[sunshine51]

Get some sulfur and lay a thick line of it surrounding your hen house. All snakes

detest sulfur. Works every time. Just replenish after a rain.

[Chicken George]

I bet its the hens themselves. They will eat the egg very quickly including the shell. Check their beaks for congealed yoke. Had the problem my self. Difficult to cure other than housing separately. Then killing the one that does it. The others tend to copy and eat it when broken but don't break it themselves..

Edited September 23, 2014 by Chicken George

[MediaWatcher]

fxe1200, on 23 Sept 2014 - 17:43, said:

soalbundy, on 23 Sept 2014 - 17:22, said:

kill it, i killed 5 during the course of a year in my garden last year with a shovel. I wouldn't normally advocate killing but my garden has high walls and they would find it difficult to find their way out and i have a small inquisitive son,rather the snake dies than my son.

Live and let live.

When snakes can come into your garden, despite the walls, then they will find their way out. Killing is no option, especially if you do not exactly know, what kind of snake you are killing.

I guess you don't have kids.... snake or kids...sorry, snake dies, no different than some animal trying to kill a snake's babies, the parent will try and kill it.

[Chicken George]

Check the nest. If its wet and smells bad you can bet its the chickens..

[Strangebrew]

Dude not snakes it is your cheap Thai neighbor stealing the eggs. Get a goose or really freak them an ostrich

[JacChang]

Don't poison the eggs.

Or else... you won't be hearing from me anymore on TV.

[fxe1200]

fxe1200, on 23 Sept 2014 - 17:43, said:

soalbundy, on 23 Sept 2014 - 17:22, said:

kill it, i killed 5 during the course of a year in my garden last year with a shovel. I wouldn't normally advocate killing but my garden has high walls and they would find it difficult to find their way out and i have a small inquisitive son,rather the snake dies than my son.

Live and let live.

When snakes can come into your garden, despite the walls, then they will find their way out. Killing is no option, especially if you do not exactly know, what kind of snake you are killing.

I guess you don't have kids.... snake or kids...sorry, snake dies, no different than some animal trying to kill a snake's babies, the parent will try and kill it.

Snakes are very shy animals, and may be you and some others here should read "A photographic guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Thailand", and have this book handy at all times. ISBN 978-1-84330-019-9. By the way, we have kids.

[DDbkh]

Geese (nok haan) are the best answer - snakes hate the goose droppings (so will you)but it works. They also help to keep two-legged visitors away, many of the whisky distilleries used to use them for security - they make a lot of noise if disturbed.

[gopis108]

I really have to laugh at the stupidity of some of the commentators on TV.They all eat the flesh of various animals regularly but yet they pretend to be sensitive about violence and killing when it comes to killing a couple of snakes-WHAT!!!.

[Pii Kate]

Buy your eggs at the market.

[mikiea]

did i just read "live & let live".kill it and do it quickly.honestly live & let live? a cobra? may the great god of bassackward notions take a hugh dump on this posters head :-)

[MediaWatcher]

fxe1200, on 23 Sept 2014 - 18:45, said:

MediaWatcher, on 23 Sept 2014 - 18:11, said:

fxe1200, on 23 Sept 2014 - 17:43, said:fxe1200, on 23 Sept 2014 - 17:43, said:

soalbundy, on 23 Sept 2014 - 17:22, said:soalbundy, on 23 Sept 2014 - 17:22, said:

kill it, i killed 5 during the course of a year in my garden last year with a shovel. I wouldn't normally advocate killing but my garden has high walls and they would find it difficult to find their way out and i have a small inquisitive son,rather the snake dies than my son.

Live and let live.

When snakes can come into your garden, despite the walls, then they will find their way out. Killing is no option, especially if you do not exactly know, what kind of snake you are killing.

I guess you don't have kids.... snake or kids...sorry, snake dies, no different than some animal trying to kill a snake's babies, the parent will try and kill it.

Snakes are very shy animals, and may be you and some others here should read "A photographic guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Thailand", and have this book handy at all times. ISBN 978-1-84330-019-9. By the way, we have kids.

Shy they might be, but they still bite and kill, you should think more about the safety of your kids...or one day they'll come in carrying a snake saying daddy daddy, what snake is this. what a tool, putting a snakes life before your kids

[ggt]

I have used a minnow or eel trap...a wire cage that you might find a fishing suppy store...place an egg inside...snake goes in...cannot find its way out...good luck...

[fxe1200]

fxe1200, on 23 Sept 2014 - 18:45, said:

MediaWatcher, on 23 Sept 2014 - 18:11, said:

fxe1200, on 23 Sept 2014 - 17:43, said:fxe1200, on 23 Sept 2014 - 17:43, said:

Live and let live.

When snakes can come into your garden, despite the walls, then they will find their way out. Killing is no option, especially if you do not exactly know, what kind of snake you are killing.

I guess you don't have kids.... snake or kids...sorry, snake dies, no different than some animal trying to kill a snake's babies, the parent will try and kill it.

Snakes are very shy animals, and may be you and some others here should read "A photographic guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Thailand", and have this book handy at all times. ISBN 978-1-84330-019-9. By the way, we have kids.

Shy they might be, but they still bite and kill, you should think more about the safety of your kids...or one day they'll come in carrying a snake saying daddy daddy, what snake is this. what a tool, putting a snakes life before your kids

Get that book, learn about snakes, and THEN you know how to deal with the situation. But why kill a non-venomous snake, even in the hand of one of your kids? May be you just tell them, to release the snake slowly on the floor? Your mindset reminds me of that American attitude: "Shoot first and then ask questions." Probably you would have killed our garden beauty as well, oh God!

Edited September 23, 2014 by fxe1200

[tracker1]

You might find it is a Greater Coucal I frigin shit of a bird and cunning I had the same problem until I actually caught it in the act with hens eggs in its beak and flying off

[fxe1200]

You might find it is a Greater Coucal I frigin shit of a bird and cunning I had the same problem until I actually caught it in the act with hens eggs in its beak and flying off

Beautiful bird though, love them in our backyard, but we have the eggs in the fridge!

[Chao Lao Beach]

Hi, build a fence around the coup with no 6mm square wire, leaning out wards at 30' at a height of 120cm with no branchers etc near by.

now snake proff