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I put golf balls in my nest boxes mainly to entice the pullets to lay their eggs in the nests boxes. I did find a rat in a nest box and a rat snake wrapped around the outside of a nest box. I have had golf balls come up missing. I believe if a snake eats a golf ball or fake egg it could die but I can only relate a story I have read. Somewhere someone was having an issue with snakes eating their eggs, so they boiled a few and put them in their nest boxes. Apparently a snake ate the boiled eggs and did regurgitate them. If I remember the snake was found in a nest box and it was evident the snake ate the boiled eggs. The boiled eggs were found somewhere. Apparently snakes have places they rest where they digest their food but in this case the boiled eggs were found where the snake apparently regurgitated them. Don't know if it is true or just a story. When researching some say the snakes will die when swallowing a fake egg or golf ball and some say no they will regurgitate it. ???