snakes are out...
Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 8:46 am
3 copperheads have met their demise so far around my kennels...2 were in the kennels...anybody got any tricks to keep them things away.?
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Moth balls
Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 11:03 am
Try placing moth balls around your kennel and barns. Heard this helps keep snakes away.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 9:57 pm
benadryl and a shot of penicillin.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 12:23 pm
Get the barber to save you the human hair. Place it loosely but solidly next to the fence on the outside.
Can use a horse hair rope to do the same.
Can use a horse hair rope to do the same.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 12:31 pm
I'd get a mongoose!------No just kidding!
Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 5:27 pm
jojo wrote:benadryl and a shot of penicillin.
I'm kind of foggy on how this would keep the snakes away from the kennels?
Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 6:01 pm
i have been giving this to my dogs for 25 years and haven't had a problem yet. no snakes come in to my kennels at all.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 8:53 pm
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:02 am
I am no expert on snakes.
Thank god I don't have to deal with them most of the time.
Unless I am down at the inlaws or something.
But I can suggest something. My grand parents lived in Arkansas and I spent alot of tyime down there.
My grandpa would cut every bush weed and peace of grass on his place.
He keep all the brush and debrie away from the yard, I was told that if you do that and keep the grass cut really short. Snakes will be less likely to come around sense they like to stay hidden in cover.
Thank god I don't have to deal with them most of the time.
Unless I am down at the inlaws or something.
But I can suggest something. My grand parents lived in Arkansas and I spent alot of tyime down there.
My grandpa would cut every bush weed and peace of grass on his place.
He keep all the brush and debrie away from the yard, I was told that if you do that and keep the grass cut really short. Snakes will be less likely to come around sense they like to stay hidden in cover.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 8:20 am
Food , water, shelter and space.........eliminate them things and you will deter your snakes.
Like Mr. McCoy said.......Destroy brush piles, wood piles, get rid of junk in your yards, cut weeds down and keep grass short, etc. eliminate shelter.
Eliminate their food source...most cases mice. If you get rid of the mice you will get rid of the snakes. Even though most rabbit guys hate cats, get a cat.
I saw this on the Crocodile Hunter. LOL
Randy
Like Mr. McCoy said.......Destroy brush piles, wood piles, get rid of junk in your yards, cut weeds down and keep grass short, etc. eliminate shelter.
Eliminate their food source...most cases mice. If you get rid of the mice you will get rid of the snakes. Even though most rabbit guys hate cats, get a cat.
I saw this on the Crocodile Hunter. LOL
Randy
Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 8:23 am
killed a 3 foot copperhead at my door step yesterday evening. Time to get the diesel out and burn the yard.
Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 1:48 pm
I have killed 16 snakes in the past 2 weeks. That makes about 30 so far this year. I've always been told that mothballs would deter them so that is what I use. Last year I was told about using the hair. Still haven't done that. I have a pond nearby so there are always snakes. Killed 3 copperheads, 2 cottonmouths, and the rest were non-poisonous water snakes. 2 of them wer 6 feet long. Non- poisonous, but definitely enough to make you hurt yourself getting away.