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Hi there, newbie here ... I did search before posting and nothing came up, so I thought I'd ask.

Moving to acreage in a couple of weeks .... I was recently speaking to a girlfriend who lives on acreage at Ipswich and she's a guinea pig breeder who has lost dozens of pigs to snakes. She got herself a couple of those solar powered snake repellers and claims she had a snake free season (whereas before they were catching a different snake species every couple of days).

So, she recently moved the hutches beyond the range of her pulse repellers and, voila, 2 pigs gone in as many days. She mistakenly thought her units had a range of 20m, but they were in fact only 10m. She put hutches back and no more vipers since!

I've found some from a guy who's been making & selling them with great success in Oz for 6 years and sells them to Govt. Depts. such as schools, police stations etc. that are rural. His units have a 40m radius and he says the average "normal house" size block only needs x 2 to adequately cover. He also sells snake fence and traps, and those rat & mice contraptions that electrocute rats, mice or anything else that crawls into the chamber - I'm thinking of getting some of them as well.

The decent vibrational solar repllers with battery back-up work out the same price, if not LESS than the el cheapo no-brand name ones imported by the 1m's from China. Plus his after sales service includes free parts in the event you run over a stem with a lawnmower etc.

Anyone had any experience with these, good or bad? I want something to protect all my 4 legged critters, chooks, ducks, peafowl and people. I plan on getting 20 guinea fowl as well, but I can't expect them to cover the entire 3 acres. There's no smilie for terrified lol!

Do you have pictures and more info on the guy who makes them? There are heaps of topics on these devices, here one recent viewtopic.php?f=6&t=57810 most find they do not work

This is the snake repeller http://www.oakent.com.au/Sentinel%20Q%2 ... peller.htm

and this is the rat & mouse zapper: http://www.oakent.com.au/Rat%20killer.htm

He went into all these products because his wife is European, they live in the country & she lived in constant terror ... a bit like myself really! Crikeys, I live 3 bus stops from the CBD & we have snakes here which never ceases to amaze me.

I should've said, "currently live 3 bus stops from the city", in a couple of weeks it'll be "out bush" so I'm gearing up.

I know the rat zap does work good but just 1 rat at a time would be better to work on 2 or 3 at one time but still works good

Thanks Leohen, that's reassuring to know, and also a clear indication to me that this man knows his stuff! I really don't believe he would continue selling them to Govt. purchasing officers for various departments, schools if his inventions/products were just a crock.

I've ordered x 6 of the snake repellers and think I'll order 4 of the rat blasters after your post has reassured me.

Will be good to get your report after you try them

My mate Don tried these and found them useless as kat so tossed them at the rubbish tip

Well, I guess it depends on which brand you buy i.e. cheap Chinese junk or quality ones - I'm sure hoping so because we saw a snake the first evening we were at the new property. I still haven't found which box they're in, but as soon as I do they're going into the ground lickety split! Just had a local handyman here looking at jobs to be done (he used to breed all the deadlies) and said this property is "Snake Heaven", just what I did NOT want to hear!!

"Snake Heaven" YIKES!!