OFFICIAL MOUNT FOREST SALE TOPIC!!!!!!

bublen · Post by **bublen** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 2:28 pm

Hey...i have a question for all of you friends....i dont know who else or better i can ask then you guys , because we all share same passion for the animals and farm living.
We purchase are first hobby farm in november of 2015. And we cant wait for the spring to get all the chickens, ducks and bunnys we like to have.
But, there is a problem with a living on a farm in rural areas - snakes !!! I hate them, i get so scared when i see one , its crazy.
So lett me ask you people - is it posieble to get rid of them somehow. As i love all animals, i dont vont just kill pure thing, but i vont them as far from me as posieble.
I heard ducks will chase them away, even chickens , is that true ?
I just seen first snake in my yard, it was very close to my pigeons coop...so im viry if she get inside. Its very smoll abd it will note ve dangerus to my birds, but the problem is - i will newer go inside again to feed them :)
Please do not laugh at me....im a big guy who is scared of snakes lol.
I will be at the mf sale on sunday, is there any kind of farm animals that will chase the snakes away, please tell me , bring them overthere and i will buy it for sure...
Thanks for any help...i will see u all on sunday...

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 2:41 pm

Guinea hen's will eat snakes

madison174 · Post by **madison174** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 2:57 pm

I have the option of bringing my silkie chicks as well as a couple of Olive Egger roosters...wondering if anyone would be interested?

Edited to refer to the OE roosters...not the chicks, they're coming anyways.

And now a black cochin rooster, bantam. LOL. What else can I find?

Doug The Chickenman · Post by **Doug The Chickenman** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 3:02 pm

Guineas will have them for breakfast lunch and dinner.
They will also eat all the bugs.

bublen · Post by **bublen** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 3:27 pm

Thank you so much people...i will buy couple hundreds of guineas then :)
Any ducks that will eat them ?

bublen · Post by **bublen** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 3:28 pm

I will buy one or two silkie hens ...

Post by **WLLady** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 3:35 pm

LOL...for snakes you need guineas. they show zero mercy.

i don't think i'm going to make it to mount forest this weekend :-( it's just too far to go for me....

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 3:56 pm

bublen wrote:QR_BBPOST Thank you so much people...i will buy couple hundreds of guineas then :)
Any ducks that will eat them ?

When buying guineas, buy young ones so they stay around, otherwise they will probably take off and you may not see them again. Also good idea to have them grow up with chickens so they learn to come in at night if you intend to free range them.
Muscovy ducks may eat them.

Doug The Chickenman · Post by **Doug The Chickenman** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:18 pm

We also leave them locked int the coop for a few weeks then locked to the run for a few weeks then eventually they get to free range

madison174 · Post by **madison174** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:04 pm

chickenvilla....I returned your PM but haven't heard back....hoping it went through?