What to do with slugs Ive collected!

dllive

My new pastime seems to be slug/snail hunting! I quite enjoy going out in the evening and collecting as many as I can find. But now I have a disgusting slime ball mess of (live!) snails and slugs in a container! How best to dispose of these? Should I drown them and put them in compost bin?

DiggerUK

Hunting down slugs and snails I can admire, I support you in your quest.
As you claim to keep them might I suggest, as simply as I can, the following......GET SOME THERAPY..._

dllive

Haha, thanks @DiggerUK . I feed them those tasty little blue sweets too! But Im on a mission to eradicate as much of those slime bags as I can! So between the pellets and me personally hunting them, Im hoping I can perhaps save some of my meager crop for myself to consume.
Ill read the whole thread that youve linked to tomorrow. 

twopenny

You could drown them in beer if that would make you feel better.

I either thrown them over the fence with gusto for the birds or relocation (yes I know snails can find their way back but so far it's working) or take them to the nearby big hedge round the tennis courts. I'm sort of fond of snails since I raised some from eggs................I'll leave that and the reason hanging in the air.

Rummer65

They make good fishing bait

dllive

Theyre actually quite hard to kill! If I put them in water they just crawl out! I could decapitate each one but that is quite time-consuming!

Ditzy_Mitzy

A gardener my dad knows favours crushing them under her shoe.  You can also, if you've got a strong stomach, cut them in half with scissors.  Salt works too - might be nicer than using the pellets, our last experiment with those was a great success but boy was it ever messy.  

twopenny

Dllive, put a container of paint stripper down. They seem to like that if you don't want to waste beer.

Apodemus

I’ve successfully used a bit of old sourdough starter, diluted a bit then adding a teaspoon of sugar each day to keep the fermentation going.  20-30 slugs drowned slugs per day recently and at long last the courgettes are starting to recover.

philsu

We have a bit of salt water in a tub and drop them in, then when tub full put a lid on or tie in a bag and put in the bin

dllive

Ive just been 'attending' to the slugs/snails I caught. Theyve been totally submerged in water for 3 days. I assumed they would be well and truly dead. But a few minutes after I took the lid off they started moving, and then started slithering away!! It was like something out of The Terminator!
I took out a pair of scissors and dispatched one by one. It does make me skeptical of these beer traps that are meant to drown them.