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I thought chickens ate slugs...

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I thought chickens ate slugs, but I guess my ex-batts don't know that. When I got home from work yesterday there was a massive slug in the run munching happily on the poo stuck to Posey's foot, while she had her entire head buried in the grub! :shock::D

 

Unfortunately mine won't eat them either and they are not ex batts!!!! I can't stand the damn things so try at every opportunity to point them and snails in the direction of pecking beaks, but to no avail! Worms - now that's another story ..............

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It's really funny you should post this: ours have been finding absolutely massive slugs in the garden and having a field day. They have become something of a delicacy. i think you should be glad they don't eat them after what I witnessecd last night: they burst them with their beaks so that the insides are on the outside, then they run round the garden with them, then tbhey break them up itno bits and swallow them. It was NOT PRETTY! One day they might get the taste for them, then you'll be sorry :)

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ours used to pop them and eat them when we first got them, and if they find a snail they quite like smashing up the shell and eating them although with the weather of the last few days there are soooo many slugs in our garden and in the run I think they've gone off them or had too many!! they don't seem to be eating them all up like I'd hoped they would!

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I have to own up - I am all talk. There is no way I could stomp on or cut up a slug. :vom: I really would be sick. But I happily squash snails for them. Florrie is the star slug buster - the first time I saw them with one of the big fat ones, only Florrie would tackle it. She pops them herself and the others hover like vultures in the hope she'll leave them some! :lol:

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