He’s baaaack! 🥚This Eastern Rat snake,may or may not be a cousin of Leonard’s, who was relocated away from the chicken coop last week. 🥚He is a non-venomous, beneficial snake known to eat rodents and venomous snakes. 🥚It will suffocate small chickens, but none were on the menu today. 🥚How did he get into the coop? He walked in. This was NOT a predator-proofing failure. Snakes cannot get into the coop at night as it is fully secured with hardware cloth. We free-range our flock and Leonard sli