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It’s
better to feed snails with a dry meal, rather than a green fodder. It’s more
efficacious and hygienic. This is my formula :
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calcium carbonate 30%,
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calcium phosphate 4%,
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soya meal 20%,
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sunflower seeds 5%,
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wheat flour 40%,
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and vitamin mix 1%;
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whole is finely ground.
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With 2 kg ( about 4 lb.) of this food,
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I produce 1 kg (2 lb.) of snails. 7 kg of
lettuce would be necessary for the same result !
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Reproduction : breeding
snails are put in cages at a density of 200 Petit-Gris or 100 Gros-Gris per m²
(i.e. about 4 lb. per square meter), with food and water ad lib., and some pots
which are filled with a good soil. Ideally, these boxes are placed in a room
which is kept at 20° Celsius (68° F), with a relative humidity of 95%, and a
long photoperiod (16L / 8D). But we can also simply use a greenhouse. Snails
are hermaphrodites but they have to mate before laying some days later.
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When a snail has laid, the pot is placed into
an incubator at 20° C and covered. Three weeks later, about 100 new hatched
snails appear under the lid.
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Usually, we can expect a yield of 70 young
snails per breeder for 2 months.
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Nursery : cages
with well moistened soil are stocked with less than 2500 young snails per m²,
in the same "climatic conditions" than breeders. 3 to 4 weeks later,
these young snails are brought outdoor.
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Outdoor pens : I
advise to stock them with no more than 300 Petit-Gris or 150 Gros-Gris per
square meter, in order to have a really good growing. We have to protect them
against rodents and shrews, for example with a grid in the ground. With a
mosquito net as lid we both protect snails against birds and prevent escaping.
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small pen in my garden
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large pen / Fabien Lesaffre
- 59560 Comines (France)
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