This is a gentle reminder to those who keep poultry to PLEASE keep in mind wild snakes if you are using fake eggs in your chicken coop. Snakes are incapable of digesting the wooden/plastic/ceramic fake eggs that are commonly placed in chicken coops to train hens. Snakes (like this little ratsnake here) can and often do eat these fake eggs and suffer life-threatening obstruction as a result!
If you need to use fake eggs in your coop please strive to ensure that the enclosure is snake-proof (difficult) or superglue 3 or more eggs together so that snakes cannot consume them and become obstructed.
I’m almost speechless that this post was met with any hostility as if it’s some sort of “crazy tumblr take” to suggest that your artificial husbandry of a non-native species do minimal damage to the local ecosystem. The OP even offers an easy, cheap solution with no downsides.
Every snake you keep alive is even going to help control more invasive rodents in the long run.
its cruel of mother nature to allow snakes to unhinge their jaws but not their buttholes
