Natural pest control

Last night, while I was watering the veggie garden, I was thinking that we haven't had much of a problem with slugs and snails so far. I have been sprinkling around a bit of slug and snail bait (a child and pet friendly one - it's made from a common food additive - but toxic to slugs and snails), but I had thought it might have something to do with the chooks finding the slugs/snails hiding places during the day and eating them. But just now, I found a little wild bird (the ones we call pests for pigging out on our chook food), cracking a snail shell open on our path for a lunchtime feast. Go for it, I say, as long as they stay away from my strawberries!