HUGE Black snake in chicken coop. Can’t Get him out

[BigBlueHen53]

Even hear about the Canadian who caught a Lynx in his coop with his bare hands? THats not how most of us would catch a bob cat or a lynx but he it worked for him

Those Canucks are flippin' crazy! At the end the lynx looks dead, did he kill it? (And, fyi, a lynx is different from a bob cat, I believe a lynx is much bigger.)

 

[McChooky]

Those Canucks are flippin' crazy! At the end the lynx looks dead, did he kill it? (And, fyi, a lynx is different from a bob cat, I believe a lynx is much bigger.)

It may look dead but it was very much alive. If you raise the volume you can hear it growling at him.He carried it off in a dog kennel and let it go. It was investigated but he wasn't charged

 

[BigBlueHen53]

⁰I've had black snakes in my coop before and they eat eggs. I killed one that had three or four eggs in it at the time, and it wasn't even very big, only about three feet long. I had to kill it because it got wound in and through the nest baskets which were like plastic milk cartons. It had swallowed an egg, then went partly through the basket and swallowed another egg. It couldn't go forward and couldn't go back. Maybe it could have regurgitated the most recently swallowed egg, Idk. I just can't stand an egg thief.

I recently dealt with two more black rat snakes in my hen house, about two weeks apart. They were stressing my hens so badly that they were laying "jelly" or shell-less eggs, sometimes as many as four per night. And my hen house STUNK on account of them! They won't be coming back. They were not too big around, but about 4' long.

When I first moved here and got chickens, we had to deal with two ginormous ones over 6' long and as big around as my leg. I got a whole lot more eggs after didn't have to share with those two monsters any more.

I have no issues with snakes, I get that they have their appropriate niche in nature. But I won't go live in their house and I don't want them living in any part of mine.

 

[AL-Lisa]

OK, I went to close my chickens coop up and I found a black snake. That’s gotta be a good 7 foot long in the rafters. I need to close them up and I cannot get the snake out and he’s getting a little testy when I try about 8 foot up and I’m 5 foot tall. He’s not real happy with me wanting to mess with him. Will he hurt my chickens? They’re all full grown. I want to think he wouldn’t but dang this thing big
I’m scared to close them up alone in the night with him

I.m way late responding to this post but for those that read later-like me... 7' usually means its a King snake and they do eat/kill other more harmful/dangerous snakes and baby/grown chickens. Hoes are easier to get into rafters. That said, once they find the coop, they will keep coming back. I destroy any/all snakes even climbing on my coops. Its a balance-and where there is one big snake, there are plenty to take its place.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Update on this situation? If snake is still there, could you shoot it? If you're willing to kill it, that is.