I live in Lander, WY in the Red Cayon area. We are building a house and there is one rattle snake who has found a home in steel piping and I worry others may join him. I travel often and want to keep them at bay when I leave for awhile.
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Walls can be erected to discourage rattlesnakes from enclosed areas. A soild wall four feet high with a four inch lip at the top angling outward will discourage most snakes. The bottom of the wall should be sunk into the ground and have no tunnels under it. Rodents not only provide tunnels for access but also leave their scent. This is quite an attraction for a hungry snake on the move! Tunnels should be filled or covered with quarter inch hardware cloth. Gates should fit snugly against the ground since a one inch opening is an open door to a snake. Keep in mind that there is NO SUCH THING AS A 100% SNAKEPROOF FENCE. An athletic snake may climb virtually any wall, and a very tiny snake can move through the smallest of crevices.
Several products that claim to be snake repellents are on the market. Though fashionably marketed and high priced, there is currently NO SNAKE REPELLENT known to be effective. Be skeptical.
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You're worried others' may join him? One would be enough for me to deal with.YIKES!
Hmmmm, a man who owns a cattle farm once told me to spread sulpher around the borders of your property and it will keep snakes away.
look into a product called whitewash.
Get a Mongoose.
Mongooses are noted for their audacious attacks on highly poisonous snakes such as king cobras.
buy a shotgun the snake skin will make a nice boot
I don't know. Just whatever you do make sure its a safe way where nobody gets hurt including the snake. I guess you could probably call animal control and get them to hunt for it and place it somewhere safe. Please don't use any chemicals or anything. Most people dont like snakes but they are living things too. Good Luck!
You need to ask ur self what are snakes afraid of I use to live in a lake house had a very similar problem except it was water mochissin and the occasional rattler just not very offten we talked to tons of ppl and the only thing that worked for us was getting a sound recording of a hawk we put it on the second floor and set it to go off every once in a while and then there was no more snake problem i would suggest that u get some kind of weapon in case u come across one when waking around and have no other choice well good luck to u
try moth balls. but rattle snakes wont attack you or bite you for no reason. you have to think they lived there 1st where else are they supposed to go? The rattle snakes also get rid of rats and mice for you too. for free. The illness that rats and mice carry are way more deadly then a snake. Just think about that next time your eating mouse poop in your cereal.
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There is no such thing as a snake repellent, in spite of claims. I can tell you that sulfur does NOT deter snakes, since I've actually conducted a controlled experiment with one of my Biology classes on this, and the snake had no hesitation about crawling right through sulfur. Sulfur is a natural antibiotic, and I have actually used a sulfur-water solution to soak injured snakes in order to debrid and disinfect wounds, before there were commercial products for that purpose. Sulfur smells like eggs, and many snakes eat eggs, soooo...do the math. Moth balls dissolve with rain, and are very toxic to the environment, and many pets and children will eat them, with deadly results. Far more children in the US die from ingesting common household products that are toxic than die from venomous snake bites. Mongooses are illegal in the US, since they've created a horrible environmental problem in areas where they have been introduced, like in Hawaii. Their appetite for snake is greatly exaggerated, and they'd much rather dine on native birds and poultry, hence the ban.
The best way to deter snakes is to remove as many of the things that attract them as possible. Seal up the ends of pipes and other potential snake hiding spots with screen wire, and don't leave anything around that will attract snake food, which is rodents. Having a resident Kingsnake can actually deter other snakes, but I don't think that there are any Kingsnakes native to Wyoming, so that isn't an option. If you choose to live in an area where snakes are found, then you're going to see one on your property now and then. Learn to live with them, know their habits, and learn to be alert and aware of your surroundings. Be careful about placing your hands or feet where you cannot see everything around them, lest you wind up placing one on a dozing Prairie Rattler.
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