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Snake eating hen!

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When I saw the subject, I thought it was going to be the other way around! I wasn't sure what short of a python could eat a hen! I found a black racer behind my Eglu last week. It froze when I approached. I had already let the chickens out and they came over to see what I was doing and chased it around. Racers are fast, though, so it got away! I found evidence of a broken egg in the poop tray so I'm not sure if the snake got in and ate it or my OCD hen broke it rolling it into the nest box and then she ate it. One hen lays in the back of the Eglu on the roosting bars and the other likes to roll it into the nest box for some reason! I hope it wasn't the snake because I'll freak if I open up the Eglu and find it in there!!

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I have thoughts of breaking open an egg and finding a dead snake in it. :vom:

 

one of mine ate a mouse once that had snuck into the corn box (lesson learned on securing the lid :wink: ), I'd scooped up a cupful of corn only to look down and see a mouse in there, the mouse thought he'd make a bid for freedom and jump out - straight into the open beak of one of my chooks. Next day we had a double yolker, I was a bit scared to crack it incase there was a tail in it! :lol:

 

I too thought a snake had eaten a hen when I read this :shock:

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I have put the two days post snake eating eggs to one side :oops:, They have become rather large

over the past week :lol:

The nest is in my compost bin but sadly the hens know this and stand around it waiting for wiggly snackets

i have a feeling they will gang up on the mother if she is around.

 

I'm letting the out later in the evening now in hope that the snakes will have warmed up and moved on.

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