We got in later than anticipated last night, and I went straight down to the barn to milk. When I turned on the light, I saw a blacksnake curled up by the feed bag.
Yuck.
But, undaunted, I started milking Tuscany. The snake decided to get up on the stanchion, so I was bonking him back down with a rake handle, finally got the better of him, and he zoomed out the open door. When he left, I saw another blacksnake outside!
Double yuck.
Then I saw a weird animalish thing hanging from the eaves of the barn when I went to check on a goat, so I sent Big Dan to investigate. Guess what it was?
Yep, a third snake. We know it was a third because the other two also slithered around while Big Dan was down there.
In the top photo is the upper snake, and below is a snake in the barn, eating an egg.
I was going to sprinkle moth balls around, but heard that they don't work. We thought of buying Snake Away, but I decided to just be careful of snakes instead.
I have the daughters doing the barn chores tonight. Can't be more careful than that.
Weird, I saw two black snakes yesterday too. Not in the chicken and goat barn though. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled.
ReplyDeleteI would have freaked out
ReplyDeleteA couple of years ago I came into the house and a black snake was slithering down the stairs - inside the house. He disappeared behind a piece of furniture near the front door. when Ann came home there were 2 black snakes on the steps outside - mating. She got rid of them. She is the brave sister. A couple of days later there was one climbing up the outside of the front door. I was by myself and it was night time so I called the sheriff's dept. LOL A guy came. He was afraid of the snake. He called for backup! By now the snake was going up a tree. and there were 5 deputies outside! Only one tried to get the snake, the others were standing around commenting. Eventually snake was caught and i don't know what they did with it - I didn't want to know.
ReplyDeleteThat reminds me of David duct-taping a flashlight to our 22 and shooting a snake, mid-egg, saying, "Suck on this!"
ReplyDeleteNice pics!