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Again, I say a welcome development.

2baga: @ Afrocatalyst my chairman I hail o. d exotic & improved variants are sourced from cameroon, my contact person is supposed to travel soon, hopefully b4 d month ends d snails will roll into town.

i will be grateful if informed when it arrives. Tanx a lot bro.

Thats a welcome development.

I finally got one. Tanx all.

neksummi: My guy, are you sure you're not late with your offer? Submission deadline is tomorrow!

neksummi on my wife's registeratn page,state selectn is nt working. Could it be because am using a fone?

Its raining season again this year,which also is growing season for snails. Get yours today. 08073122596

Tanx 2baga. You also inspired me. How do we get the cameroon hybrid now?

I learnt smetin new recently,thankx to 2baga who came and gave me some insights on marginata. Marginatas are also a very good breed cos of their muscular size though nt alwayz as long as fulicas. I am considering cross breeding both. But I dnt knw how yet. That wil surely give a gr8 result. I now wil start takin my marginatas serious bt fulicas remain my best til I get a hybrid of both. Guess am greedy and want it all in snail farming. Well,I must make at least 100million naira from snail farming in the next 4yrs mininum. Cheers pals.

Wmpcatalysts@yahoo.com. Pls am interested. Tanx.

Pls there must be receipt. What is the make and its speed capacity and memory. Pls there must be battery and charger. Money down payment. Text 08073122596.

This is how I make sure my snail pen is free of termites. When changingt my substrate(soil),I first spread it outside so sun heats it. There is no insect harmful to snails that can survive that condition. In the evenin,when the sun is down,I set it in the pen and spray clean untreated water on it before puttin in my snails. This is the case wen I get my substrate from the bush. Again,your pen should be built in such a way as to make it impossible for termites and ants to crawl into. There is cool money in snail farming cos you dnt spend much. You might spend 40k and in two years you make 500k. Truɛ. This is because you dnt spend to feed them,all they need from you is CARE. Can you give it?

Change your soil every two weeks if you are using a pen or pens. Though nt so if you are practising free range.

I find it strange to see how pple misunderstand c'mon english language. Anybody who reads through my opening write up wil understand i was advertising our services bt pple cal and say they saw my advert on nl,that they need the job. Pls read well before callin.

2baga: @Afrocatalyst: I will need to retrieve my line, I misplaced my phone late on Saturday, so there was no way for me to reach out to you on sunday, even the abule egba address is on the phone too,

ok then. Let me have your new line.

Another way to complement their calcium source that i just discovered is to go to your local pharmacy and get pure calcium tablets with no additive. They are cheap. Drop one tablet everyday into the spray mist you use on them daily. Shake well to make sure its dissolved and spray on them and their food. They absorb it thru their skintand eat it also thru their food. The reasn i emphasize a lot abt calcium for snails is that next to their food,it is d next most important thing to them,DAILY. It is even so more important for baby snails.

After fumigating your apartment yourself,you should take some antidotes to reduce the effect on your health. One of such is to take 2000mg of vit c or lick 20 of the common white vit c. It has no overdose. Anoda is to take one tin of peak milk. These way,the chemical effɛct on you must have been reduced. I wonder how some pple use raw chemicals in their houses,just like that. One of subh is sniper. It is raw DDVP and is nt designd to be used raw. Using it raw can result to ashmatic conditions and even cancer. They might seem to act fast for you bt in d long run,arent you robbing peter to pay paul?

Again ensure you're nt ashmatic before doing this urself and ensure that no child or adult that is ashmatic should go into a fumigated place that same day. They can go in the next day. Prevention is better than cure they say.

How lovely. Mothers wil alwayz be cherished.

Happy birthday Nairaland. Seun,I think at this stage,you should be considering new innovations so as to still be relevant in the game. Whateva you decide,I for one,am solidly behind you. Am a proud Nlander and wil always be grateful to God for using you to make this site happen. It had been long overdue. We needed something like this a long time. Nigeria would have gone a long way. Bt the question is 'how many Nigerians are Nlanders'? I think each of the 1million members have a task of educating our teeming youths on the importance of joining a forum such as this. This is because growth and change of a nation starts with the people. Not ordinary people,bt enlightened people, people who know their left from their right, a pple who can not be tossed around by any news wave from anywhere without verifying the sourcɛ, a people who have learnt the hard way nt to trust easily because of sweetmouth, a pple who believe in result oriented approach to life and nt the certificate way, a pple who have a broader view of life,religion,education, romance and bizness and nt the old myopic way before, a pple who believe in constructive criticism and nt destructive criticism, a pple who appreciate the good others are doing and nt bringing them down or winching them(lol), a pple who believe tribal and religious sentiments should give way to logical and reasonable idealogies, a pple whose paddlestick is their ability to learn something new everyday, a pple who wil find ways to make themselves happy even when the world is screaming sadness, a pple who are willing to share how they've succeeded freely with others and nt those who believe you must suffer or pay to make it 'since i didnt get it on a platter of gold', a pple who believe that diversification is the way to go in our economy, especially agriculturally and nt the old belief of sulking up to / gathering round the wicked old monopolistic oil thieves/moguls, a pple who believe that governance should be everybody's bizness and nt one man's, a pple who believe in fairness and finally a pple who wil inspire you to be your best. Happi birthday Nairaland,kudos seun, kudos mukina2 and other good mods, kudos all active and good Nlanders. Cheers.

Kx: She is keying into "d anointing" to receive her own imo!

she had hers bt gave it away. Maybe cos he was whyte. Black men wit black mambas rock.

segs_xpendable: y the girl resemble Kate Henshaw like dis

i think she z d one. Asoebi things you know..

specialeagle: I like this thread, Afrocatalyst pls can you send the necessary info including the price per snail and delivery (to phc) to my inbox @ ugomajohn@gmail.com

Thanks

it costs 20naira per baby fulica and they wil be sexually active in the next 6months. You can even sell after 12months at 200naira per one. Delivery of baby fulicas by waybill is very delicate because of heat. So i can only talk to d driver to assure their safety. They wil be delivered in a plastic bowl that wil be half filled with black soil and covered with mosquito net to prevent them escaping. The delivery charge depends on the quantity you are buying. Bt know that your pen must be ready before their arrival and when they arrive,transfer them to their pen in the EVENING ONLY. I await your call. 08073122596.

Pls if you are calling for NEWLION to be delivered to you,inform or call a day ahead. This is because the transportation system especially in lagos is nt favorable for instant delivery. Thanks to all our persistent clients who use NEWLION every month. God bless you and stay healthy cos that is the greatest wealth.

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specialeagle: I like this thread, Afrocatalyst pls can you send the necessary info including the price per snail and delivery (to phc) to my inbox @ ugomajohn@gmail.com

Thanks

ugoma thanks for the response. I wil get back to you soon.

You can locate us now in any part of lagos. We wil soon be at port harcourt and warri.

Stil balling

2baga: @ Afrocatalyst,
for the baby fulica, what sort of pens would you advice one to go for that will best suit the optimum growth and safety of the little ones as they will require more care and feeding at the on set?

the standard pen for matured snails should be such that can be constructed in a way that the snails will nt be overcrowded. One square meter half filled with loamy soil per 15 matured snails. Overcrowding affects their productivity and growth. Besides, when overcrowded,their slimes increase,which isnt good for them,thus the more reason to clean your snailery everyday.
Now for baby snails,a pen should be constructed for them. A square meter pen can take up to 400 to 500 baby snails and should be constructed in such a way that termites and other invaders cannot come in. Baby fulicas should be kept away from sunlight as it kills them,so where the pen wil be kept should be free from sunlight. Again, they should be fed evryday by sunset, say 6pm. I advise nt to put drinking water for baby fulicas as they might drown. Instead go to and PET bottle seller,buy one with the spray gun,(its cheap) make sure you dnt use it for any other purpose apart frm puttin clean untreated water to spray on the baby fulicas every evenin during feedin. Warnin... Never spray them in d mornin as that wil bring them out and expose them to sunlight which wil kill them. All these can be done in 30mins evryday. That is all they need from you- CARE.
Hope you now see why your snailery can only be where the farmer resides. For me, my big snails that i grow to maturity are in my farm in atan ota bt my baby fulicas and marginatas stay wit me where i live. That way i can monitor them well. I can easily take care of the big ones once in a week bt nt so wit the babies.
Summary of everyday routine:
1. Open the snailery and clean it by removin any leftover food and clean the walls of their slimes. Snails love to be clean. I even bath them once in a while.
2. Put their food in.
3. Spray them wit clean untreated water.
4. Close and leave cos they hate to be disturbed.

cybereagle: Hi Afrocatalyst,


If you can help to provide more information, I would be grateful. Please give answers to these questions by replying to: babs_o@hotmail.com

a)Have you exported these snails before? I am asking this particular question as someone told me that Fulica Achatina, or any of the West African snails do not sell that well, especially in the USA. Can you shed more light on this?
b)How many snails can you sell at once?
c)Would you be willing to offer paid consultation?
d)How long have you been a snails farmer?
e)Are you able to help source for a farm for the purposes of rearing snails?

thank you for your response. It is nt true that giant west african snails do nt sell in the USA. The truth is that they have restricted its farming and raw exportation to the USA. The reason being that it smells badly when there is mass mortality of the animals,so their environmental enforcement banned its importation. Meanwhile,it can be sold there when the meat is processed. Hope you know different ways the meat can be processed? Besides,it pays more when processed cos you get to cash in on other parts of it like the shell and gel,ie assuming you have clients in that respect. Though i have nt exported snails before,i plan to do so soon and wil update as soon as its done.
B. Every sales is determined by demand.
C. If you so desire
d. Less than two years now.
E. If you so desire. I wil also construct your snaileries for you in a standard way so that it wil be protected from invaders,one of which is termites.
I hope i have been able to answer your questions.

I tried a lot of things to supplement the calcium my snails get evryday apart from the one from the soil. I tried boiled egg shell by removin the inside layer and crushing. They hardly ate it. I went to the market and got limestone (nzu in igbo). I washed it an broke it for them and placed it ,they ate it bt not much. I later discovered a better way. When changing the soil,i grind the limestone to powder and mix wit d soil before placing them. (note that its necessary to change the soil once in two month). That way,while eatin the soil,they take it in. I noticed their shell getting stronger and more polished.