chickenlickin Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Hi I have had loads of slugs in the garden at nght time this year, and when I shut the hens away and take away their feeders, they are 3-4 slugs in side. Does anyone else have this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-xJuliex- Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Yup! I cant stand them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Sometimes. The hens will eat them if you chuck them in the run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChookKeeper Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 I discovered this the other day - curiously, they appear to prefer the growers pellets to the layers... very strange! I decided they were too good an opportunity to pass up, so now go out at about midnight before I go to bed and collect them all up in a little pot, and give them to the chooks and ducks the next morning! I find doing it this way a good way of making sure they haven't gobbled a slug pellet or anything too, as if they had, they'd be dead by the next morning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clucking mad Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 i used to always get about seven snails in the grub each night and the chicks were too wimpish to eat them and so i got into the habit of taking the grub inside each night. recently i have been leaving the grub outside all the time and no snails, so either they havent come back or the chicks are eating them before i get a look in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruth1 Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 Its like a slug convention in my garden this year, i keep saying to the girls you can eat them you know, they are everywhere and huge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisymay Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 I felt like I was in a scene from a horror type film last night. There were slugs heading towards the runs from every edge of the netting. I had no idea there were so many lurking in the bushes! Must've been about 50 or so....probably more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Girl Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 My girls LOVE snails and slugs so I've never seen one in their Grub, it wouldn't have a chance of getting in there before being gobbled!! They even eat the snails whole in their shells, you hear the crunch!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angels4 Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Do I have defective chickens?!?!? I found the biggest, most slimey slug the other day and I picked it up (bare hand mind you) and tossed it to the girls they pecked around it a bit, but really paid it no mind (until Ouiser stepped on it) and jumped into the air, then proceeded to run in circles while screaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Poor Ouiser That's exactly what I'd do if I stepped on a slug! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Same here! Am impressed that you picked them up with bare hands Angels 4. I can pick up snails (or a slug in a shell as Snowy's little boy described one on Sunday ) with bare hands, but slugs....*shudder*....I have to fling them off a trowel. Try Lesley's tip and snip them in half with a pair of scissors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angels4 Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Same here! Am impressed that you picked them up with bare hands Angels 4. I can pick up snails (or a slug in a shell as Snowy's little boy described one on Sunday ) with bare hands, but slugs....*shudder*....I have to fling them off a trowel. Try Lesley's tip and snip them in half with a pair of scissors. If I have to snip them in half I WON'T be picking it up in my bare hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 slug problem here too! have to tip toe dodging the slugs on the path on the way out to the run when i shut the girls in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joojoo Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 I threw a lovely big juicy slug in the run earlier. The girls spotted it, came over for a nose then one of them picked it up and threw it straight back out onto the flower bed where my hostas are!! They really weren't impressed. I can just about manage to pick them up with bare hands if I only get them between my finger tips but I couldn't cut them up :vom: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
