I haven't seen any snakes this year...yet. We don't have possums or armadillos. We do have raccoons, squirrels, voles and chipmunks. The battle has been on this past spring with the voles after finding a tunnel under Palace Garden Beauty. Even watched one run right in front of Cyrus(Great Dane) as he was lying on the lawn. He just gave me a look of "what the heck was that?" So no help there. After catching the voles the chipmunks enlarged the hole to their liking and moved in. Twelve chipmunks later...the have a hart is empty this morning. Fingers crossed that was the end.
Didn't know chickens would go after the snakes. I decided to get chicks this past spring, prepared a coop and pen for them, but in the past two weeks I've let them roam our property thinking they would prefer the pasture with the horse to anything else. They have decided the daylily beds are more fun, following me around and listening to the radio. I've watched them carefully to see if there would be any damage to the plants, but so far they just pick off bugs and dig in the newspaper/paper bag and ground leaf combo I use in my paths.
