Yuck! That Was Nasty!

[rosemarythyme]

Mine don't care terribly for the slugs, but they do eat them on occasion. Big ones are too slimy, but smaller ones are fair game. Lots of beak wiping of course. It was worse when they were playing keepaway with a salamander.

 

[3KillerBs]

The Katydid was more enthusiastically received, starting a rousing game of Chicken Football.

 

[B-Goock]

My chickens didn't go for slugs either, unfortunately. But they LOVED Japanese beetles! I spent hours this last summer hunting for beetles for them. They liked the grubs too. (What's the difference between a grub and a slug, I asked them. No answer.) I am going to see if I can be a force for Japanese beetle extinction in my my area.

If you take a container like a used cottage cheese one. Make an x cut in the top so you can just shove those beetles in and they can't get out. Toss it in the freezer. Then you can put them in zip lock bags for later when your girls need some bug protein.

 

[Sally PB]

you can just shove those beetles in and they can't get out. Toss it in the freezer. Then you can put them in zip lock bags for later when your girls need some bug protein.

Great idea!! I might do that next year.

My husband gives me the stink eye when he finds a bag of vegetable trimmings in the freezer. I tell him it's for making bone broth. I'm gonna have to think up something to cover finding a bag of frozen bugs... lol!

 

[B-Goock]

Great idea!! I might do that next year.

My husband gives me the stink eye when he finds a bag of vegetable trimmings in the freezer. I tell him it's for making bone broth. I'm gonna have to think up something to cover finding a bag of frozen bugs... lol!

You gotta use veggies to make a good broth. Its no different than marinating or seasoning a steak.
Ground june bug pepper?

 

[RLockhart68]

I found a slug almost as long as my little finger crawling through the grass. I threw it into the chicken pen.

Chipotle runs up, pecks it, then wipes her beak on the ground. Repeat twice.

Cordon (or Teriyaki), runs up, pecks it. Pecks it again. Wipes her beak on the ground.

Popcorn, wonders what the fuss is about. Ambles over. Pecks the slug. Walks away.

15 minutes later the slug is still crawling across the pen unmolested.

Chickens have concluded that slugs are nasty. Humans are amused.

My chickens have a pet slug about the same size as the one you described. It hangs out near the waterer, I've even found it taking a swim in it. None of the chickens bother it, they're just like "hey dude, how's it going?"

 

[RLockhart68]

If you take a container like a used cottage cheese one. Make an x cut in the top so you can just shove those beetles in and they can't get out. Toss it in the freezer. Then you can put them in zip lock bags for later when your girls need some bug protein.

Wonder if I could do that with stink bugs

 

[chicken3fly]

My chickens have a pet slug about the same size as the one you described. It hangs out near the waterer, I've even found it taking a swim in it. None of the chickens bother it, they're just like "hey dude, how's it going?"

Your pets have a pet!

 

[RLockhart68]

Your pets have a pet!

As long as I never find it in a nest box.