If you don't like snakes don't look!

This is what I found when I went to feed the chickens. It's a grass snake, about 3 foot long which had obviously just had a meal! We have lived here for 20 years and this is the first snake that we have ever seen here - in fact, it's the first snake that I have ever seen.

 

Did it eat your chickens? :eek:

 

We suspect it was a large mouse or frog that it was digesting. The chicken count remains stable but I don't know whether we are etting al the eggs that are laid.

 

Just wondered from the feathers in the piccy. Great pictures btw!

 

Well captured:thumb:, it looks like a female judging by the size of it, it will take a day or to to digest it's meal.

 

Wow. what a whopper. Not seen one of those for years.

 

Probably capable of eating chicken eggs they will eat birds eggs and nestlings,frogs so probably a chickens egg should be manageable perhaps Strongy can enlighten us.

 

Not sure if their jaws are strong enough to break a chicken egg, They haven't evolved to eat them unlike the egg-eating snake.
I've never heard of one eating a chicken egg but that's not to say they haven't.

 

I have seen just the one grass snake in my life and that was 2 years ago after so VERY Nearly treading on it when walking on part of the Bramley Line to do a recce for the following week/time we went down there.