Two dangerous reptiles have been killed in a neighbourhood after they targeted the eggs of a local chicken which was being bred in the area.
One of the killed snakes
A young man has taken to a popular Nigerian online forum to share how a python and another snake were carefully eradicated within their vicinity after they swooped in on the eggs of a hen.
Read his short story below:
"We got some local chickens roaming about in our compound.
Yesterday morning, we woke up to find that one of the hens which was incubating some eggs was squatting somewhere else and did not attempt to move when we go near it.
Also, the eggs which were eight in number the previous day had reduced by 3. We concluded that a snake must have attacked the hen and swallowed the eggs.
The eggs were laid in a place which has wood and some bags packed beside. We started removing the items there one after the other and the first snake, the python was sighted. It was snuffed out using petrol and killed using an iron pipe.
Feeling that the snakes could be more than one, we started searching for another and found it almost immediately. The black one wanted to escape through a place which we had earlier covered using a piece of aluminium roofing sheet. While the snake was just next to a wall, my dad held it to the wall using a longer iron pipe while I hit its head using a shorter iron pipe.
P.S. We don't eat snakes for those that'll ask for pictures of soup/stew cooked with them"
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