Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[chickenlickin]

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?

[-xJuliex-]

Yup! I cant stand them!

[Egluntyne]

Sometimes.

 

The hens will eat them if you chuck them in the run.

[TheChookKeeper]

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!

[clucking mad]

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.

[ruth1]

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

[daisymay]

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

[New Girl]

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!!!

[Angels4]

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.

[Snowy]

Poor Ouiser That's exactly what I'd do if I stepped on a slug!

[Egluntyne]

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.

[Angels4]

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.

[chelsea]

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.

[Joojoo]

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: