Is there a snake I can keep around my property that will either eat or drive away copperheads? Last year we counted 5 different copperheads in our yard. As far as I know they're still there. I have a 7 year old and a 2 year old who think snakes are great. My 2 year old thinks she can play with them so I am terrified she will get too close to a venomous one. I won't kill them, but if I can get a non-venomous snake to move in to take their place it would be great.
Andrea from Grundy, VA
Call your local conservation department. They will surely advise you and/or come get them and relocate them to a better wild area. (01/30/2009)
By dede smith
Black snakes keeps the copperheads away, they kill them. If you don't go the snake against snake route, use sulphur. You can buy sulphur in 25# bags. I use it to keep away snakes of all kinds and it keeps ticks away as well. You shouldn't let your children play around the sulphur for safety sake. What I buy comes in small ball-like pellets, not powder. It does work, I have used it and I don't have any snakes around of any kind. Call the Conservation Office for any other help. (01/30/2009)
By Patsy
There are sites that sell plastic Owls with movable heads for keeping birds and snakes away. Owls eat snakes so they scare them away. The trick is to move them around at least once a week. (01/30/2009)
By Cyinda
Get a tom cat, then they kill rats and snakes. (01/31/2009)
By Julie
My grampa used Guineas when he was growing up. They are like watch dogs and very noisy if anything comes around your house, but they eat all kinds of snakes. I have friends that have chickens and one Guinea and they have never seen a snake on their property. (02/03/2009)
If you can locate a king snake, they're good to keep around your house because they eat all other snakes. Or, you can do what I do and spread sulfur powder around the perimeter of your yard, snakes will not cross that. You can get it at just about any garden supply place. (02/03/2009)
By Pat Giles
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I have black snakes and they do not keep copperheads away. I got rid of the bird feeder. It attracted mice, rabbits, chipmunks, and deer. That in turn attracted the snakes and coyotes. So I just feed birds when we have snow. As the weather channel said food follows food.
Tom cats do not keep out venomous snakes. They know the difference!!
Will rain wash it away
When we were young on the farm we had a pond. We ha ducks and chickens and where my father did the milking there was a huge black snake that laid on the beams of the barn. As a child I never saw a snake (other than my Dads black snake) any where except in the little creek we used to play in.
There is a product called snake away I use under my mobile home.especially when you have skirting because that's a place snakes love to live.also mothballs just cut holes in the box and toss it under the home
Find you a couple of adult King Snakes. They are constrictors and kill other snakes as part of their food source (including copper heads and any poisonous snake). Best to look them up so you can properly i.d. them. The bigger the better.
Reading through these replies one sticks out. "Black snakes keep copperhead away". Myth! I am an avid outdoorsman and work in the forestry division. I have personally seen black snakes "Rat Snake" and copper heads den together in the winter.
There are more than on type of "black snakes. The "rat snake" black w/ a lighter underside will bed down w/ a copperhead. On the other hand the Black Racer, shinny black , thin & long does not like copperhead. I will chase you, but it is not venomous. Virginia possums will also kill copperheads, The venom does not bother possums. Remember copperheads climb trees.
these people are sending questions for someone to answer and all they get is a run around- what value is this process.
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