Chickens are not smart enough not to eat sluggo and the sluggo does kill them. It's a really horrible death. Three of my chickens ate Sluggo. 1 died in a day, another a week later and the third didn't die for 3 weeks. I'm not sure how we determine that birds are smarter and won't eat it. My chickens were large healthy chickens. It makes me wonder how much it would take to kill a small bird or a lizard. If you read the fine print on the package it says to use a very small amount spread out thinly. Most people don't read anything on the package except the large print advertising on the front. I tried talking to people pushing Sluggo at a Nursery Trade Show and they didn't want to hear it. They just told me I shouldn't be feeding Sluggo to my chickens. Of course I didn't intentionally do that. I left a sealed bag laying in the garden for about 1/2 hour not realizing the chickens would peck through the bag and eat some. They could have eaten 1/2 to 1 cup between the 3 of them before I went back to get the bag and found them there. Carolyn <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com/.