DesChyko: #Sochima tinz.. Hehehe

midastouch: Hello Friends, I sincerely hope that this thread will not degenerate into the selling of manuals, e-books, and fictitious consultancy services! As a precaution, any so-called expert MUST post CURRENT (Not 4 year old pics o) photos of his farming operations in the different phases of hatching, grow-out, fattening, and sales. No scams please! If you copy pictures from the internet, I will out and shame you.

samuelkaykay: I stocked about 200 young snails,after 2months i counted about 500 tiny and newly hatched snails.
Their best meal is pawpaw leaves and water melon.
It's fun!

pragmatist_m: Now that a poster has mentioned the issue about snail enemies, let us learn what are the enemies and how to keep them off.

One enemy I know is the soldier ants. They are terrible. one way to ward them off is by digging a small trench round the snail house and put used car oil and diesel fuel in it.


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Jeezyy: Can sumone plz post steps on how 2 prepare a snailery(pics)

ozo-dimgba:
a very nice thread I must say, I've dreamt of having a snail farm as a part-time job however, I don't know where to get young & a good species of snail to start with. I will appreciate if anyone with the right knowledge to share it here. many thanks to the OP.

babestell: What of the health risks to humans. Someone raised it and we shouldn't brush it by.
can anyone confirm if it is true

pragmatist_m: Now that a poster has mentioned the issue about snail enemies, let us learn what are the enemies and how to keep them off.

One enemy I know is the soldier ants. They are terrible. one way to ward them off is by digging a small trench round the snail house and put used car oil and diesel fuel in it.


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franksunny: How do i water my snail during dry season and i need more clue on how to ward away soldier ant please

pragmatist_m: What do you mean by health risk?

merit12: Can carton be used in rearing snail?for those that doesn't have land or space

excelsiorfarm: using carton has its many challenges,first when water come on it,it becomes soak & messy,hence it create room for development of fungi with bacteria. slime buildup in d carton will result in massive death of your snails.slime causes more death than u can imagine, that is what many hardly discern in their snailery setup

pragmatist_m: Good info. Thanks.

19naia: People need to also recognize the diseases that humans can get from snails....The most nightmarish nervous system infections are carried by snails and spread by rats as well...Where there are people and food, rats will be there, the snails eat rat feces also and rats sometimes eat snails or the same vegetables and pellets the snails eat and slime on....They share diseases this way.....Snails cellular structure is most similar to mammal nervous cell structure, and so it is when humans get infected by snail diseases, the disease thrives in the nervous cells and does damage there..
Its good to be careful...I know of a lady in my area who ate vegetables that had very small infected snails and she was damaged in her nervous system so badly and eventually entered her brain and she went into a coma....Another man recovered but has permanent nerve damage causing him to shake and have terrible balance and coordination of his movements...

African snails are known to be viable carriers of Rat lung worm, rats carry that micro worm as well and they spread it among each other by snails eating rat feces and rats eating snails or snail slimed vegetables or vegetation with snail feces.....

proper washing and cooking is certain prevention, wash hands after handling snails, so as not to ingest any particles from the snails body or feces....Keep rats away from the snails and that will isolate the snails from contagions....Exotic and terrible diseases happen among fresh water Mollusks. A Sea mollusk has the most exotic venom, the cone shell mollusks venom....