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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: paranoid mandroid on June 05, 2005, 15:06:19

Title: slugs and snails
Post by: paranoid mandroid on June 05, 2005, 15:06:19

can i feed slugs and snails to my chickens? i only just got some chickens and it would be handy if i could.

Title: Re: slugs and snails
Post by: redimp on June 05, 2005, 15:30:37

Yes - by all accounts they love them.  Some people kill them first but I would have thought that would take the fun out of it.  I suggest you lob them in and watch them make a dash for the fence.  If they make it before the chickens get them  ;D, you could always lob them back.

Title: Re: slugs and snails
Post by: Marianne on June 05, 2005, 15:45:34

Oh dear ... ::) :P

Yesterday, I did the unthinkable and put down some blue slug pellets.  :o 

I was fed up with my rudbeckias being eaten by them.  So, this morning I found 5 of the bu**ggers begging for mercy.  They were not dead but I chucked them on the heap all the same.

 :-[ :P ::)

Title: Re: slugs and snails
Post by: PREMTAL on June 06, 2005, 00:23:33

Hi All,
         I have just received an update from The Organic Gardening Catalogue.

They have reduced the price of Nemaslug from £12-50 to £10-50 if anyone is interested in trying it out.

                                                     PREMTAL :)

Title: Re: slugs and snails
Post by: northener on June 06, 2005, 07:29:14

I feed slugs to our hens, they love em. You couldn't if you used slug pellets or next door used them.