Yesterday afternoon the Wifey and I were taking a little stroll around the property when we came across a bit of a commotion among the two Wyandotte chickens. Wifey saw that one seemed to be choking on something and sorted out that it had a baby snake in its mouth. After a moment, it spit out the snake and the other Wyandotte stole it. They then proceeded to play a rousing game of "keep away" until the ~6" snake was consumed.
Amazingly, a few minutes later they found a second snake in the woods. As with the first, they played "keep away" and devoured that snake, too.
The only downside to the whole thing is that if those were baby black snakes (which eat the copperheads), I'm not nearly as happy about that. Oh well. That's nature doing nature things.
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