New animal additions to the farm and ways to keep snakes away from your home Ep.25

Episode 25
I wanted to do a follow up to the “scare in the barn video” I put out a few weeks ago. If you missed the video, we had a rattlesnake in our barn eating a sparrow hawk that had just left the nest. Check out the link below.

https://youtu.be/TaXlX6WS3vA

Not wanting to have another snake situation or encounter, I researched ways to keep snakes out of your barn and away from your house. I wanted to share some of the ways I have found so far to help keep the snakes away along with some of the things we have implemented here on the farm.

Since I’m not a fan of snakes and have been terrified of them my whole life, I wanted to learn what was attracting them to our barn. Snakes prefer an environment that is dark, damp, places with plenty of cover, such as wood piles, unmowed lawns, tall grass and overgrown shrubbery. These are excellent place for snakes to hide. They linger in places where food is available without many predators.

Here on the farm we checked just about every one of those boxes…

Dark barn with plenty of things to hide under
Food source – mice, baby rabbits and birds
Tall grass – weeds around the barn
No predators!

Now we needed a way to keep the snakes out of the barn and away from potentially harming one of the horses, donkeys, goats or chickens.

Here is what we did…

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