Jean Kroll

Thanks, everyone, for your responses! I'm just wondering about having the ducks trained to go back into a carrier when they are "done" with their slug-eating work. Also: what can you do to keep them from flying away (I'm guessing there is some way to clip their wings). If a person were to have a small flock of ducks for the purpose of eating slugs out of gardens, how many ducks would you recommend?

Here in the Maritime NW slugs are such a problem. I have two large gardens and I lose a significant amount of my vegetables to slugs even though I am constantly drowning them in beer, picking them out of the yard/garden at sunrise/sunset and poisoning them with iron phosphate. I heard of this idea to raise a small flock of ducks that could be transported to various gardens for the purpose of slug control. The idea intrigued me! Could it be possible to raise ducks in one area then transport them in a large crate to eradicate slugs from various gardens? Benefits: in addition to hopefully being an effective mode of cutting down on the slug population, the ducks would provide eggs. Has anyone ever tried this?