4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[alligg]

Hiya

I am just after a bit of advice on what to do about slugs.

every morning the feeder is overrun with them and there are loads underneath and in the storage box with all the chickens stuff in.

The girls dont eat them but I dont like the idea of them being all over their food and messing everywhere,obviously we carnt put repellent down inside the run but wasnt sure if we put traps on the otherside of the fencing if it would draw them out into the traps and away from the run/coop.

thanks

Alli

[Mrs Slats]

could you put a band of copper round the base of anything you want to keep the slugs off... slugs hate copper, won't cross it. rather like a cattle grid for slimey things

[oneyolktoanother]

could you put a band of copper round the base of anything you want to keep the slugs off... slugs hate copper, won't cross it. rather like a cattle grid for slimey things

 

thats a great idea we keep having slugs after food etc in the coop and on the coop

[chickenanne]

you'r girls won't eat slugs...?? It is chickens you're keeping, not, dunno, small children?

Wierd.

I too would go for the copper tape option, it works on plants in pots, But I am amazed yours won't eat slugs!

[Space Chick]

If a slug gets in my girls food, I make sure it gets a good coat in layers pellets, I think it makes a chicken equivalent of something like a fishcake or a breaded cod

 

They go crazy for it

[K-F-C]

A beer trap near your run will help.

 

If they don't like the big slugs try chopping them in half with a trowel!

[WarrensWorld]

Our four have just been fighting over a large black slug. If they found slugs in the Grub, it would be a red letter day........

[Chucky Mama]

Don't forget that if your chickens are partial to slugs make sure that you Flubenvet (worm) them regularly.

 

"Cestodes (Tapeworm) are flattened, ribbon-shaped worms, usually segmented. Cestodes use arthropods and other invertebrates as their intermediate hosts. Poultry become infected by swallowing infected snails, slugs or insects".

[sjp]

i hang both my feeders up in the run and at night in the shed keeps sluge and mice out i hope as for chicken eating slugs none of mine will whole or chopped even tryed poultry spice on them

never found beer traps much good either

[Pollo]

As well as copper, slugs hate and cannot/will not slide over gravel or bark... just as an option

[Penguin]

We have the same problem and someone advised taking the food out at night and just putting it back in in the morning. It's worked a treat and we only have slugs now if there is some cabbage or something left in the run. Our girls don't eat them either which is a shame because there was a real feast there...

[alexgirl73]

As well as copper, slugs hate and cannot/will not slide over gravel or bark... just as an option

 

I must have weird alugs then 'cause I'm always finding them on the gravel outside my back door

[xScrunchee]

As well as copper, slugs hate and cannot/will not slide over gravel or bark... just as an option

 

I must have weird alugs then 'cause I'm always finding them on the gravel outside my back door

 

 

Weird slugs here too cos they crawl all over copper tape to get to my plants

[hazard]

salt and watch them sizzle

[Chook n Boo Mum]

As well as copper, slugs hate and cannot/will not slide over gravel or bark... just as an option

 

I must have weird alugs then 'cause I'm always finding them on the gravel outside my back door

 

Ditto

 

Sha x

[greenfreek]

salt and watch them sizzle

 

oh i used to love doing that when i had guinnea pigs. they always ued to get in the food and i couldntstand them so never dared touch them so id get a stick and move them all together and pout salt and or boiling water over them.

Not i nice way to go, i know, and i wouldnt do it now but eurgh i hate those things!!!

[Chook n Boo Mum]

My Nan used to get HUGE slugs in her garden in Cornwll...bigger than I've ever seen before or since & we used to pick them up & throw them over the hedge & listen for the squelch as cars went over them in the road outside ......can't work out now how we heard the squelch over the car sounds, but that was our story .....I don't think we ever hit anyone's car with the slimy missiles

 

Sha x

[CluckyBucks]

My chickens dont like the big slugs aswell They prefer daddy-long-legs

 

xx x