What do the snakes in your area eat? If they eat mice and rats, etc, get a few cats. Cats will kill smaller snakes (even poisonous ones), but more importantly, they rid your area of the food that snakes eat. Make sure they have a secure place to sleep, and an escape from their own predators.
Sue
So you don't have a snake problem, but are suffering from a lack of snake loving neighbours, or perhaps family members who are willing to pee around the edge of the property, or even marigolds. Well, its almost Christmas.....gif ":)")
summer time =more drink =more wees =more oportunity to water and fertilize in one go....could also, "chuck in a weed and feed and wee(d) all in one go" buts its too corny so i wont
Tezza
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I just saw my first snack last week - only a meter from my vege garden. I didnt see any last year. So Ebunny, does peeing actually help keep them out? - I really am a bit nervous of one hiding under my beans.
Hello readers, with much skepticism, three years ago we took a chance and brought 5 solar snake repellers for our 2 acres in central tasmania (we had nicked named it, snake central) three years on and to this day we still hasn't seen another brown since, believe what you want i say they work and i never fear about sending the grandkids out the back to play anymore,
they are available on the australian owned auction site ** oztion ** (oztion.com.au) and they are cheaper than anywhere else.
Cool! This was actually the first time I heard about this Solar Snake Repellers. See how solar energy was so beneficial for us.
I can confirm that the electronic snake repellers definitely don't work. Though I didn't get as far as finding out if they repel snakes or not - I mean the units themselves don't operate. I bought some units from the on-line supplier in Gympie, and put them out in the yard, and one didn't work at all while others charged up okay and sent out vibrations every few seconds, but stopped working after a few days. The thing is that the supplier has been happy to replace the units when I advised him of the problems I was having, but none of the replacements work either. They either don't work at all, or stop working after just a few days. I now have multiple faulty snake repeller units sitting around and have given up dealing with the supplier. Oh well, we live and learn.
Our puppy school teacher, who is also a snake catcher (handy woman to know!) said the solar powered snake repellers are a waste of money - snake catchers have apparently done a fair bit of testing on them and found them to do bugger all.
Have you thought about Guinea fowl birds? Or another bird that interest me is a peacock.
I haven't used them, but I had recently suggested getting them to try. When I mentioned this to a farming family member, he reckoned they would not work. He said he has been using his tractors and had snakes just slither past.
Love to hear if anyone has had any success all the samethough.
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