Aussie Finch Forum

Hi new to finches, just wanted to know after all this rain we have had I have a heap of garden snail around the aviary, is it safe to have them around and do the finches eat them???

Remove the horrible slimy things, to a concrete slab and stamp on them. Then scrape up the yuck and bin it. Oh and welcome to the forum.
LML

Cheers for that! seams like a real great and informative site. Thanks for the heads up on the snails better get my stomping shoes on!!

Pour salt on them and watch them turn inside out ..... so Ive been told

Salted snails I think there a delicacy in some countries haha

um...putting salt on a snail is an excruciating death. you don't really need to kill them - chuck them over the neighbour's fence if they really disturb you.

Well they all seam to have found themselves a new home away from my birds so no salt required or aerobatics over the neighbors fence thanx for all the advice.

I have a peace treaty with my snails, they can stay in the aviary until they are too big to fit through the mesh (well actually I cannot control them coming in) and then I turf them outside as they leave nasty silver lines on my trays of seed. OUTSIDE it's fair game. I cannot lay out snail bait in my planted aviary ;)
I don't see them being any sort of a threat to the birds. Mine don't eat them either, although I have witnessed my birds eating the left over shells of one that were squished unnoticed by myself.

um ... dont really walk around with a salt shaker looking for snails

I only knock them off if they are in the avairy or pot plants or some nice new plant. Otherwise they can wander round my garden. I really am not on a permanent hunt for them.
LML