Chickens and beer?

[sillybirds]

I've often wished I could feed snails to my chickens, but have been concerned about possibility of them carrying parasites. Once I boiled a pot but that stunk up the kitchen. I wonder if the snails soaking in your beer traps would kill parasites they might potentially be harboring?

 

[IamRainey]

(Mine won't eat slugs at all... maybe the super tiny ones, but bigger than that, they're just too slimy for them).

Mine are on them like white on rice! If I go in with a handful of a dozen fat slugs they last about 20 seconds. And I only have 3 hens.

If I just have one or two I just hold my hand up to the wire hardware cloth and the pecking is ferocious!

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

I wouldn't think the beer would be a problem for the chickens, but if you have concerns, you could try non-alcoholic beer. I imagine that would still work for attracting/killing the slugs?

Wow, I FINALLY found a (potential) use for non-alcoholic beer!