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How do I keep slugs away?!

supersonic

supersonic

Mama Doe
I HATE slugs and snails with a passion. They always end up in the pets hutches and I really struggle to make myself fish them out :s Other than pellets, how can I stop them from getting into the hutches?

I heard copper wire helps, so I was wondering if looping that around the legs of the hutch would be enough?

Sonic doesn't seem to mind them, but I can't imagine it's nice to share your house with one of those things :(

Any suggestions will be useful!! :wave:
 
I used to have a lot of slugs in the kitchen of my student house, a few years ago now. After stepping on them far too many times in my bare feet I now have a total phobia of them.

Lots of salt works on them by killing them. Obviously to be used where bunnies cant reach it - under the hutch, around the legs or whatever.
 
Get some chickens, hey presto, no slugs or snails to be seen!!

I too have stood on slugs this year for the first time ever in my life, gross gross gross, but since having the chickens, haven't seen one!
 
We had a real problem with slugs, they were everywhere. In the hutch & run, they even came through the cat flap to eat cat biscuits! Luckily we have decking so hubby has dropped a few slug killer pellets down between the planks so the children / pets can't get at them. Seems to have done the trick, but obviously will only work if you have decking :)
 
Thanks guys! Sonic loves to sit under the hutches, so I think copper wire will be the best bet :) I'm also going to try smearing vasaline on the hutch legs as well, I'll let you know how it goes!
 
We have had a problem with slugs and when I go out to put the bunnies to bed (about 10pm) I was finding slugs either heading or in their food bowls. I even found slugs on in the food drawer - which is one of those 5 drawer pedestals and the top one is the food drawer (luckily food is in sealed container).

As they are in a shed and no-where to get in, I am at a loss how they are coming in. We now remove any pellets at bedtime if they are uneaten.
 
freddie&daphne said:
We had a real problem with slugs, they were everywhere. In the hutch & run, they even came through the cat flap to eat cat biscuits! Luckily we have decking so hubby has dropped a few slug killer pellets down between the planks so the children / pets can't get at them. Seems to have done the trick, but obviously will only work if you have decking :)
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Just be immensely careful the rabbits cant get to them. They WILL and DO kill rabbits, just by eating a single pellet.
 
GrahamL said:
Just be immensely careful the rabbits cant get to them. They WILL and DO kill rabbits, just by eating a single pellet.
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Thanks, we are. There's about a 1.5 ft drop below the decking and my husband pops them down one at a time, he's knows he's out on his ear if any of my animals are injured in his war against slugs so he's super careful. There's no way they could get to them. :D
 
Egg shells worked for me when my bunnies were outside.

I used to crunch them up and put them all around the edge of the run. It didn't look good but it kept them away.

I always used to find them going into the food bowl and allsorts :evil:
My 2 were terrified of them :cry:
 
supersonic said:
Haha, yeah we used to do that, but I couldn't stand emptying the container :?

Plus, mum thinks it's a waste of beer! :roll:
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When I did it a couple of years ago, I used Tesco's own brand beer. 4 cans for 88 pence. I never tried it. :lol:

You could get someone else to get rid of the container.

We had so many snails and slugs, 100's every where. Only took a week to get rid of them with the beer.
 
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