ciouxox:
Please add me to the what's app group 08110115280

midastouch:



Have you heard of Obasanjo Farms?

tboneybone:
He needs to watch he's tongue, kktmb be coming for his a.s.s like some hungry hyenas

restored2016:
Hmmm! Liberal information! You can't be in nairaland esp. The Agriculture sector and still end up poor after 9months. @ Lordhugo thanks so much, I have learnt so much... Can you come and supervise my farm when I start snail rearing.

tfx2012:



No you are not its actually good you gave an insightful advice I appreciate it. What's the possibility of rearing them in house like using a gate man security house?

tfx2012:
@lordhugo I want to start small like with NGN 20,000 I have two tyres and a small part of my house with sand close to the fence. What do I do to get the pen up?

ademobi:
Hi Bros,
Please I want to start ASAP. I have constructed about 3 boxes (5ft by 2ft). The dept is about 2ft. One for Layer,and the second for Nursery and last one for hatching. Please kindly advise me, How many can i start with and how much will it cost ?
Thanks snd Best Regards.

stmoriz:
Na wah oh, country do turn us to farmers

Juliana7:
@lordhugo, happy new year, we ve not heard from dis year. I hope all is well. We are earnestly waiting for d continuation/concluding part of ur lecture, we stopped at M, u promised to continue from N. Thanks. Ve a refreshing, blissful and prosperous 2016.

dechandel:
Being in bed all day doing nothing!!

Making out the first time, the first kiss basically!!

Having a pair of jumpers in his flat!!
Getting along with his family
Airport pickup(s) that 10 seconds of flying into his arms and not breaking off

And then raising a living thing In my context should be a baby, but that would be after that trip to my fathers house and he gets to walk me down the aisle!!


*Sighs* oh well!! A girl can dream.

lexicot:
Hello lordhugo,

My major challenge is security if i am to get a farm land for snail and veggie farming. Please how do i solve this because farmlands for sale are kind of out of the city. Because i will like to be close to the farmland. I presently reside in lagos but i am considering moving to ogun state for this. Which city is close to a farmland for sale and i guess i have to look for money to fence a part of the acre for snail..

Please i am very new to farming in general.
I am pasting this here so others can learn and also as per your instruction..

desykay:
@Lordhugo, Thanks for the quality of info given so far on this thread
pls i want to know if i can use sawdust as soil for my snails as its difficult getting good sandy loamy for my snails whenever i want to change the soil(i make use of used tyres)

whirlwind7:
If they are aware that this specie of snail slime transmits certain extremely dangerous neurotoxins, they wouldn't be this foolish.
They do this because they are aware that some European and Asian beauticians perform it.

What they didn't know is that the specie of snails used is totally different.
[s]Giant African snails do have poisonous slime that can transmit diseases.[/s]

omonnakoda:
Good job @OP

My question is this. If you incorporate snails into an integrated set up farming other crops e.g vegetables,etc do the snails not tend to attract snakes ?

yomyjoe:
Well done sir Snail Lord, by the grace of Almighty God, you will be my snail consultant next year 2016 when the rainy season starts. I am trying to gather funds to build my pen before that time, so when its set, i will buy the young snails and place them in their new home to start breeding. God keep us.

Emblj:
Nice job. God bless u OP for sharing ur knowledge with us.

princesoby:
Thanks for your thread, God bless u

dundayo:
@Op, its a great work dat u ar doing here,may God bless u,am already mapping out strategies on starting my own snail business...thank you

islandmoon:
you have committed a big blunder here, you didnt talk about snail pest and how to fight them, that should be one of your major sub topic , how do you fight the pest that share the same habitat with snails and same food chain

Patented:
here is a picture , pls advise what specie too.

Skywalker5:
I was thinking about doing this in the UK part time. The problem i have is space

Patented:
@ OP Ehn!! God Bless you fot this thread!! U make Brain!! i hvae been snail farming on a subsistence level on and Off for since my teens. I tried free ranging what i believe is the A.M specie at a point but was not successful. reading your thread now i can see a number of my errors. I shuld have had a pen for the breeders and then free ranged their offspring. also here is this red and black hairy insect larvae dts abt 3cm long that kept attacking them.

well now i free range a specie of snail that does not grow large. at maximum size the shell is about 6-8 cm long. its not the giant African snail and they are fairly common and extremely hardy and very prolific in producing offspring. However due to their small size i have always assumed they are not commercially viable. is there a market for them? cos i generally harvest for consumption.

ayoolanr:
I wanna try some snail dish, sautéed with onions and mushrooms! Yummy!!!!

ibolomo:
Please, can school chalk be used instead of limestone? I once heard that it is made up mainly of CaCO3. What about egg shells?

MARKone:
Nice info lordhugo. My question, how fast does these things grow, does it take a lot of time before it matures.