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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: View from the Chicken House
From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 15:56:52 -0400
We keep waiting for a cat to adopt us.  We had one, Rooster, that slept in
the nest boxes and thought he was a chicken; however, he got killed by a
possum.  There are a couple hanging around but they are too scared of
Jasmine to come close.

Tina


On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> 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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