Only small ones !!!

Sounds like you have a nest !!!, they generally lay a nest in a shady area, thats cool and dry

Get a snakecatcher round to checkout your place.

Also keep grass cut as short as possible.

Dont leave any flat objects on the ground ( such as ply wood, colorbond roofing etc )

Make sure the kids ( or you ) shut all screen doors soon as you enter or leave the house

Be interested to know if crushed shells would deter snakes ( similar to deterring snails ) sounds weird idea, but someone may know.

Most Produce sell Birds and the like. Rural Produce stores

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfa5GYYM2sw

Sickm laddie

I have got "something" turning up in a container which I reckon will keep them at bay, I am going to test them first and then consider shipping over quantities into AU, and no not telling yet what they are. Needless to say I have looked into it and am supplying friends on blocks with snakes and getting them to feedback snake sightings etc.

I am full of silly business ideas!!

Jenny

live in a flat - problem solved

Interesting site. However somehow I dont believe that 5000 people in Oz are bitten by a snake each year.

Sorry to burst the myth bubble about gravel but my folks have 2 m gravel paths all around their place they've still had both Red Bellied Blacks & Brown Snakes on the patio area inside of the gravel It may help deter them but it certainly won't stop them. You can hear them slither over the gravel though
We had a large 1.5m brown snake under the house last week, it got caught up in a fishing net & died, I only found it by hunting for the stench of dead thing.

Guinea Fowl are excellent deterrents, they do tend to breed & multiply quite quickly so you could always set up a business selling them to other ophiophobics. They also make a very annoying squawk at all hours so not good for smaller blocks. If you want a few check out the farming section of the local trader, they are often free to good home

Keep me in mind if and when you decide to market these.

As our block is semi rural, the 2 snake catchers we called weren't interested in coming out to help.

Good job you didn't have visitors.

I have been told by an aussie neighbour that mothballs can deter snakes from under decking / houses etc. Not tried it myself but he swears by them so may be worth a go.

My friends use Guinea Fowl as snake deterrents

l live on a couple of acres of land, l have 10 cats, they eat all the food like rats, mice, frogs that snakes eat so theres no food source for snakes and the cats crawl into places snakes hide and attack them, does'nt matter if a couple of cats get bitten and die when you have 10. l don't think any snakes bother living on my land, they go somewhrere else, l have never seen a snake on my land or any rats either.

LOL... like your attitude to life. Don't fancy the 10 cats is the only problem.

Obviously marketed by the same people who had electronic rat and mouse repellants in the '80s and '90s . I wouldn't rely on it as their own advertisement contradicts itself within two sentences.

Good one idiot, you sound like my Inconsiderate neighbor who up and died last year, leaving his cats to turn feral, so far we have shot 6 this year, still have about 9 to go.......give me Snakes any day.........mm