Chickens And Slugs

[digger71 7]

Haha Chickens are like machines, they will destroy your veg patch and they don't take long about it either. We chuck the slugs in their pen, but I remember dad leaving the door ajar one night and in the morning the chickens had helped themselves to most of the garden... Bloody hilarious us all running round trying to pen the things back in!

Ha wouldn have been as funny, if you left the door ajar.

[fergy 6]

Guy on the tv the other night hand picked all his veg them popped the slugs into his hens they loved them but as said loose they will cause as much damage as the slugs

what programme was that mate?

[fergy 6]

 

dont let em near your cabbage for gods sake!! i made that mistake once - never again!

Ha i wont make that mistake so. I have this thing in my head they solve my slug problem. If i left them in the plot in the spring of the year before planting would they clean out all slugs do ya think.

 

problem is slugs literally lay thousands of eggs each year so no matter how many you get rid of theres always plenty more to replace them - get out at night with some scissors and a torch, you can clear hundreds - other than that keep trying to attract hedgehogs as they eat loads of them.

[Astral 253]

 

Haha Chickens are like machines, they will destroy your veg patch and they don't take long about it either. We chuck the slugs in their pen, but I remember dad leaving the door ajar one night and in the morning the chickens had helped themselves to most of the garden... Bloody hilarious us all running round trying to pen the things back in!

Ha wouldn have been as funny, if you left the door ajar.

 

 

No I'd of been in deep shit and never heard the end of it!

 

Got to love the old man.

[low plains drifter 10,391]

Put a few containers full of cheap supermarket lager,or better still the sediment from homebrew buckets (this can be watered down if you need a large amount)the next day they will be filled to the brim with dead slugs proper little vandal pish heads that they are

[LaraCroft 863]

Put a few containers full of cheap supermarket lager,or better still the sediment from homebrew buckets (this can be watered down if you need a large amount)the next day they will be filled to the brim with dead slugs proper little vandal pish heads that they are

I'd end up with half the local wino population invading my garden for a free drink if I did that

[low plains drifter 10,391]

 

Put a few containers full of cheap supermarket lager,or better still the sediment from homebrew buckets (this can be watered down if you need a large amount)the next day they will be filled to the brim with dead slugs proper little vandal pish heads that they are

I'd end up with half the local wino population invading my garden for a free drink if I did that

 

Slugs would beat them to it,but if it's that rough where you are a yeast and water mix will do the same job

[LaraCroft 863]

 

 

Put a few containers full of cheap supermarket lager,or better still the sediment from homebrew buckets (this can be watered down if you need a large amount)the next day they will be filled to the brim with dead slugs proper little vandal pish heads that they are

I'd end up with half the local wino population invading my garden for a free drink if I did that

 

Slugs would beat them to it,but if it's that rough where you are a yeast and water mix will do the same job

 

It could be an interesting contest if nothing else ! I think I'll try the yeast/water mix - I know I have yeast in the cupboard, a little low on cheap supermarket lager though *hic*

[shaaark 10,719]

would a slug eat a chicken.......

Only if it's crossed with a malamute!

[digger71 7]

Is the beer trap really as good as they say, guess ill have to give it a go.

[fergy 6]

the beer trap works better if you can cover it with something as well, dunno why, i saw it on river cottage and tried it works a treat

[digger71 7]

Thanks folks ill try the beer trap