rattlesnakes wouldn't be anywhere that
there's not food water and shelter
either a few of my subscribers suggested
video topics i asked you voted and this
was the number one suggested video topic
i'm sure that every single one of you
have read my book build an off-grid
homestead with next to nothing and
notice that i focus on food water and
shelter if it wasn't for food water and
shelter i wouldn't be out here in the
high desert of arizona guess what
rattlesnakes wouldn't be anywhere that
there's not food water and shelter
either and so that's what you need to do
to prevent rattlesnakes is prevent food
water and shelter for them the reason i
can leave the door open to my greenhouse
is because i don't have a rodent problem
rattlesnakes like to eat rodents
if you can get rid of rodents
they're not going to have very much to
eat recently
i lost my favorite cat thelma
and
previously before losing her she had
done a phenomenal job of catching any
pocket mice and keeping rodents off of
the homestead
when there aren't rodents on your
homestead well there's less likely going
to be any snakes
keeping all kinds of food at bay is
important on the homestead and that's
why i have locking buckets so i've got
dog food chicken feed pig feed all
locked up when there's no food there's
no rodents and then there's less likely
going to be snakes when you have
chickens you'll have eggs and
rattlesnakes like eggs
so keeping
hardware cloth or wire mesh around your
chicken coop
will prevent the snakes from getting to
the eggs not to mention my eggs are on
the second level up here making it even
more difficult for the snakes to get in
here not making omelets for snakes is a
great way to keep them off of your
homestead did you know that snakes like
water in the areas that you store water
make sure that you don't have puddles
built up
or
a garden hose that's leaking
if you have a puddle of unattended water
it's sure to attract rodents and of
course having all of these different
things in place will help prevent snakes
but you might just have a pond like i
plan to have and in that scenario you're
going to want to do your best in all the
other areas and then be cautious around
the pond
to make sure that there's not a
rattlesnake having your garden hose just
laying on the ground could possibly
accumulate water or maybe it's leaking
and it provides shelter for the snake so
make sure to keep your garden hose neat
and put away
and any watering pens keep them in the
open so that there's not shelter to hide
in around them
you don't want to have places under
buildings where the snakes can climb you
don't want to have
junk around your yard and you don't want
to have bad landscaping this is my shop
here and you'll notice that there's just
no way for a snake to crawl underneath
not only did i run skids one way i
blocked them in the opposite way and
that will prevent any rodents or snakes
from getting under my shed if you'll
notice in any area that there could
possibly be
shelter it's very clean and organized
and i can see in and around it i keep my
homestead free and clear from clutter so
that there aren't good places to hide
and i'm not creating shelter for snakes
having a highly active homestead will
also
keep rodents and snakes away having cats
running around catching mice having dogs
running around and checking everything
out will keep things off of your
homestead personally i found that to be
just about good enough
but a final thing you could do
is
put wire mesh or hardware cloth three
feet up all the way around the perimeter
of your homestead would help prevent
snakes from getting in as you can tell i
haven't done that i simply have an
electric fence i don't mind the
occasional snake coming in
for the most part you can just be aware
of it and then let it go on its way
if
if the snake seems to
you know be irritated or whatnot you
could spray it with the garden hose and
it'll probably go away having one of
those snake arms would be good if you
need to relocate a snake i would say
nine times out of ten if you do have a
snake it's probably just gonna keep on
going once it sees how busy your
homestead is
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