
It is said that this creature can heal the body. It is not a wonder anymore why there are some cultures that use snakes as an ingredient to their medicines.

As long as they are inhabiting a suitable environment, they can last for many years. Of course, the natural lifespan of this particular creature is quite long. Many traditions believe that the snake is a symbol of longevity. Other Meanings Of Snake Crossing Your Path Vitality and Longevity But if you incorporate responsibility, diligence, and the essential human values, you can benefit from these changes. If you are not prepared, the situation will “bite” you. Whether you like it or not, they will take place. Of course, a crossing snake indicates that you need to be open and ready for these transitions. The only thing that I know right now is that these events will come. At this point, there’s no certainty if these changes will be good or bad. There’s a great probability that you are going to encounter an event or experience that will alter your life for good. When a snake crosses your path, you are asked to be prepared. It is essential that we can prepare ourselves for these changes. Same as the snake, change is also inevitable for all of us. We all know that snakes typically change their skins through the process called molting. Specifically, this one indicates the possible changes that could happen in your life. If you're trapping Tegus you need to be contacting the proper authorities to have them destroyed.One of the most notable meanings of the snake is transition. They negatively impact populations of native and endangered wildlife. Florida Parks and Wildlife destroys any Tegus that are captured in an effort to control them. Tegus are not native to Florida and are considered invasive. Even better secure the feed before you have a rodent problem or a predator problem or mites and lice that you cannot get rid of. Predators will leave shortly after that as they get hungry. Secure the feed and the rodents will leave. If you are feeding more than that you are feeding more than chickens. The single best thing to do is to weigh the feed you are feeding each day, a quarter pound per laying hen or growing broiler, ignore the roosters as they eat little. If you do not have a secure feeder your coop will support a rat colony and you probably won't notice the amount of feed being eaten as it slowly ramps up as the colony grows. But a city block size of rural land won't be able to support a couple of rats if that. You take a city block and it can support 100 rats in a colony, waste food in trash cans and dumpsters mostly. The size of the territory depends upon the amount of food the territory can provide year round.

In the natural world a rodent is going to have a fairly large territory and it is going to have to defend it against other rodents. I can understand a farmer with a corn crib that has holes in it needing snakes but anytime you create an unnatural environment by leaving pounds of chicken feed just sitting out unprotected you are asking to have rats and mice. People assume that having chickens means having rodents and thus need snakes around to control the rodents. I minimize plantings/flower beds, standing water, etc, to minimize the attractiveness of the environment and dissuade them from hanging out. That being said, I keep the grass mowed very short throughout the entire yard. When I brought in some new pullets about 3.5 months of age, the snakes killed all but one in a few days in the same manner the poult in the OP died. I went months without getting any eggs ( I had a very small flock). I killed over 18 rat snakes last year, sometimes more than one in a single day/night. Last year I relocated the first three rat snakes (in as many weeks) that I caught in the hen house eating eggs. If you're trapping Tegus you need to be contacting the proper authorities to have them destroyed.
