UkButton Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Is it just my chickens that don't eat slugs and flies? With all the wet weather slugs have invaded the Grub feeder but the chooks just eat round them... They may be sweetcorn addicts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xScrunchee Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Mine love slugs, especially Ria. She loves the great big fat ones and charges around the garden with them in her beak flicking all slug guts all over the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prongs Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 They sure are s"Ooops, word censored!"s haha! Either that or they just don't like them! Like my nans cat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Mine don't usually eat slugs - the whoppers I get in the garden are too big for them. But the 'big girls' who I am boarding for AMO love them and race around the garden on a slug-fest when I let them out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 ours fight over slugs you see them running down the garden when one find one. chook with the slug running and the rest close on her heels they dont seem all that fussed on flies though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Mine only like the little ones. They are too ladylike to guzzle the big chewy ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 dont think that ours care Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 You have to cut the bigs ones open for them first so they know what they taste like (I know ). But once they have a taste for them there'll be no looking back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 You have to cut the bigs ones open for them first so they know what they taste like (I know ). But once they have a taste for them there'll be no looking back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I am so desperate (last remaining courgette plant is nearly chewed through) that I am prepared to try cutting slugs in half ... if it will make them eat them! they've got the hang of snails now, at least one of them scoffs them up; her sister isn't bothered, but slugs just don't interest them at all. Now, woodlice - that's a different matter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I turned an old log over yesterday and called them - look girls, woodlice! - but they just turned their noses up. I can see I am going to have to steel myself to cut a slug in half... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 I can just picture it! Apron on, scissors in one hand marching down the garden in crocs after those sluggies!!!! My darling cat caught a frog last night - totally devoured it - then at 3am this morning decided to regurgitate it in hubby's office - totally gross & the cat is now banned from going in there and curling up on his chair! Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountainboarddude Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 my chooks only eat small slugs and the occasional flie, which they run after with their mouths open jumping and flapping , but they don't eat the big slugs and i don't think i could bring myself to cut one open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutechicky Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Hehe! My chickens are like that with woodlice! They won't go anywhere near them! Every chicken has their own different tastes I suppose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debratugwell Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Is it just my chickens that don't eat slugs and flies? With all the wet weather slugs have invaded the Grub feeder but the chooks just eat round them... They may be sweetcorn addicts. Mine won't touch slugs or snails unfortunately as I can't stand the damned things and since hubby built me some veg beds am being invaded. I have tried to tempt them but to no avail. However worms, flies, caterpillars, woodlice, ants etc. do not stand a chance!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutechicky Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Well...who can resist them.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
