Please Check Your Chicken Coops! If there is a gap in your chicken coop, then I can assure you that a Carpet Python will find it. As the weather starts to warm up, snakes will start looking for a mate and also a feed. Please do yourself and your chickens a favour and double check that the coop is completey snake proof. This means 1cm by 1cm chicken wire over every surface including across the top. This important message also goes out to anyone with other pets in enclosures like bird aviaries, gu