Stepping, too gross. How about letting chickens eat them is that cruel? Its relative.

sallyg said:Stepping, too gross. How about letting chickens eat them?.

I caught a flatworm in my garden yesterday.... Where did that come from?
Offered it to chickens... Happy chicken...

Too dry here to see many slugs... Can't remember the last time I saw one... Might have been at the previous garden...

So... Maybe the solution is to just live in the Sandhills?

I've been catching those purple striped millepedes... they seem to have come with the mulch... Chickens like them fine....

And...

What's the last thing to go through a bug's mind when it hits the window of a fast moving car?

SPLAT!!!

What mind?

BigBill said:Oh, I could never decide to stomp them. I have no desire to ruin a pair of shoes.

That's why you get wellies for the job

Linda1990 said:Hello everyone,
like many others, i too have a big problem with slugs in my garden.
Of course i want to get rid of them, but i did not want to use any chemical solutions or beer traps, so i wanted to kill them by myself, and i thought that probably the easiest way to do that would be to just crush them underfoot, and that is what i did practically the whole last year. I even bought a pair of wellies just for that purpose.

Now my question; I have heard that stepping on them can be cruel and that it takes some time for them to die, especially when the boots have a rough profile (which mine have), but i thought that a rough profile would just kill them faster?

Now i don't know if i should keep killing them this way because i don't want to hurt them too much for too long.

Thanks in advance :)

Didn't your brother tell you that stepping on slugs will cause your foot to grow mushy, get infested with gangrene and drop off?
Mine did. To this day, I will not step on a slug.
All childhood issues aside, I love slugs. They propagate ferns. I never intentionally harm them.

Wait a minute Sallymander, wait a minute. I have got to ask. Just how in the world does a slug propagateva fern???

BigBill said:Wait a minute Sallymander, wait a minute. I have got to ask. Just how in the world does a slug propagateva fern???

The slime trail they lay down "glues" the spores to the soil, reducing the chances of them being washed away.

Wow, that is pretty incredible.

Just seeing this 6 years later. I'd just leave them be, anyway from what I've heard they die a slow painful death when they're stepped on and their shell is crushed in pieces.

just leave them to do their slug thing.