| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Marts |
Anyone for a snail farm?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7568138.stmSo has anyone ever set one up? Is there much involved? and is it easy to contain them? |
| Rob R |
dpack had some escapees the other day, I'm sure he'll be along later to relay the experience in a much more succinct & amusing way |
| cab |
I kept 'em as pets as a kid, and have a giant African land-snail as a pet now. Snail keeping on a larger scale... Well, it looks like it would be a doddle. |
| Fee |
cir3ngirl keeps snails, but she doesn't like you to mention eating them 
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| bodger |
They'd be too quick for me. 
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| Ian33568 |
They collect them from the wild here - many, many snails around - however it takes a couple of weeks to clean them so they have no mucus....... 
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| dpack |
very easy
but skp's can be fun |
| Green Rosie |
We have the large Roman snails round here - I often meet people collecting them so one day I will get around to eating them. There is also a snail farm near here - seems that the snail houses are made from old pallets 
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| wellington womble |
You don't need to farm 'em. Just build a raised bed and plant something you'd like to eat. The buggers turn up all buy themselves! 
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| Woodburner |
I don't know much about snail farming but I came across lots of info on frog farming the other day 
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| Marts |
It just struck me that if its easy to set-up and produce in scalable quantities in a compact space then it might be a good thing for the odd farmers market - selling them both fresh/live and also selling intersting cooked recipes. - Saffron Snail Samosas anyone? |
| dpack |
it would depend on type of snail and whether you are breeding or collecting and scouring what conditions you need to create
some species are rare / protected in a locality ,please respect local custom giant africans will breed at 25 C to 40 c in high humidity (and prefer about 33 ish ) 6 adults to a tank 2 ft by 2 ft by 3 ft 3 in of water saturated peat as a base layer with limestone chips under it and ground chalk in it feed pet shop rabbit pellets mixed with 30% chalk wetted to a paste , fruit both sweet and citrus (and tomatoes ), nice salad leaves are prized ,cabbage will do for neglect weeks the 6 will each lay 200 / 300 eggs ,from these expect 500 off spring to put into fattening tanks at about 50 per tank sized as above gas are best at about 1 1/2 in lip to point i scour garden / wild snails at the mo and dont breed them but as a domesticated type gas are easy .if you need advice im here 
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| dpack |
when i was a kid nobody wanted to be the guards in the escape scene
with snails now i can with no guilt slugs is utterly nasty 
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