how do I avoid snakes from coming into my yard... I live in the country...help??

Answer 1

There is a product available called Snake-Away. It is a granular mixture that is easy to apply to your yard. We use it and it works great. Here is their site:
www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/snakeaway.htm

They sell different sized containers, it really depends on how large your lawn is. It will last about 3 months, stands up well in rain, and it is EPA approved .
There is also another product that is called Liquid Fence. Never tried it, but from it has to be applied every 2 weeks. Here is the site:
www.liquidfence.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=217

One more tip would be to buy some Guineas, they will kill snakes, seen it myself several times. Take a look at this site about Guineas:
http://www.guineafarm.com/guineas.html
They are very interesting and inexpensive.

Answer 2

Keeping Snakes off the Lawn
Keep your garden and lawn inhospitable to snakes. It is impossible to keep snakes from passing through your garden, but it is possible to make sure they don't stop and make a home there.

Watch out for mulch piles. Snakes enjoy snug, warm environments for reproducing and living. If you have a big mulch pile, snakes (and rodents) may try to make a home there. Try to make sure you mix it up as often as possible. You can also build the pile in a wire cage so that air and water circulates through it, making it more inhospitable for long-term living.


Trim Your Hedges
Trim small trees and shrubberies. Gardeners encourage that you make sure that the lower limbs on small trees and shrubberies should be a couple of feet above the ground. If branches dangle to the ground, snakes and rodents will make a happy home at the foot of your garden trees.

If a thick ivy wall or expanse is part of the beauty of your garden, do what you can to limit the growth under the ivy itself.


Cut Your Grass
Cut your lawn. Tall grass can become a home for snakes. Happily, most lawn grass will have trouble getting tall enough, but landscaping grass like monkey grass or pampas grass, will provide a perfect home for snakes if not trimmed or controlled properly

Answer 3

Sprinkle sulphur and coarse salt around your yard. You have to do this twice a month or so. Rain washes away the stuff so u have to redo this after a heavy shower. Keep grass short. Look out for hidden, shady, cool area in yr yard i.e. under a shady tree, an area underneath an unused garden table, etc, as snakes go for cool & hidden plcaes like these to chill out.

Answer 4

I have a friend who has a home on a lake -
He used to have a problem with copperheads coming into the yard - until he dropped a line of mulch (cedar in this case) around the perimeter of the property . . . since then . . . no more snakes in the grass.
This is renewed every spring - - - has been working for 3 yrs now.

Answer 5

Rewrite this question in the animal section you may get a better response. My dog keeps other types of vermin at bay but I don't know about snakes. Sorry. Maybe a pet ferret? Why am I thinkin a Guinea Hen would attack them. Worth lookin into. Itleast it would eat the ticks in your yard!

Answer 6

I've heard that if you sprinkle sulpher around your house that snakes will avoid it. Other than that the best thing to do is to keep your grass cut so that you can see them when they do come in your yard. Don't walk around at night without a light.

Answer 7

The main things are as others have said keep your property neat I have Jack Russell terriers they have never allowed a snake in my yard also I have neighbours who use bird netting aound their house if yours is on stumps and this catches the snake and prevents them from getting under the house they slither into it but can't get out. what you do with it them is up to you. Good Luck

Answer 8

Sprinkle Sulpher and mothballs all around your property. You will have to do this every time it rains as well. The snakes dont like the smell so they stay away from the line. We have a few farm cats and so far we havent seen many snakes with them around.

Answer 9

My grandparents also live in the country and they have snakes all around...they got a few cats (which of course multiplied) and apparently that REALLY helped with their snake problem...of course you want to keep the cats outside....

Answer 10

Keep your yard free of clutter. Keep all mice and rodents away. Those two things take away their homes and their food.
Also, they love bushes, cracked foundations, wood stacks, anything that they can make a cave for hibernating in.
Most snake-away products do not work, just so you know.