example of a concrete pen
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Snail Feeding stuffs
Leaves,
Vegetables and fruits: - Leaves of paw-paw, cocoyam, banana, sweet potato
and cassava. Snails eat a lot of vegetables too. Some of the vegetables
include- pumpkin, cabbage, lettuce, okra, water leaf, spinach, garden eggplant,
amaranthus and all green vegetables eaten by man. Breadfruit, cucumber, green
beans, nectarine melon, peach, plums, paw-paw, banana, plantain, orange, apple,
pineapple, grape, tomatoes, ripe pear, avocado and all edible fruits.
Tubers: - Snails
also eat tuber crops like yam, sweet potato, cocoyam and cassava when cooked,
but without salt.
Agricultural
by-products:- Agricultural by products – wheat bran, rice bran,
corn, soybean, residue bran, palm kernel cake, peel of plantain, banana, fresh
maize chaff etc, can also be eaten by snails.
Supplements:
- Feed supplements
like fish meal and blood meal are also good for snails.
Concentrates:
- This
include poultry waste and feed, fish feed, but without salt. Dried and
processed maize, groundnut cake, soybean meal, and sorghum.
Minerals:
-
Limestone, wood ash, fish meal, bone meal. Snails also need a lot of calcium
in-take for growth and shell formation. Calcium or mineral supplement can also
be derived from ground eggshell, oyster shell, bone meal, or even soil.
Always
remember that the performance of your snails depends solely on the type of
feeds they are fed with. So feed your snails well for better growth and
increased returns.
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THE SNAIL MARKET
If you rear snail in commercial quantity, Hotels, fast food restaurants such as
Genesis fast food, Mr Biggs, Tantalizers, etc. will be your regular customers.
They will only need your assurance of regular supply per week. There is also
good market for snail meat in the international market if only you can do a
good packaging. You can make millions of naira from this vast and inexhaustible
market. Snail farmers are making huge profit as the global demand for the
delicacy increases. In Nigeria the prices of raw, matured snails goes for N250
to N600 Depending on the size. However, the annual demand for snail in Nigeria
is about 7.5million kg annually. The international trade in snails is
flourishing in Europe and North America. The United State of America imports
more than $4million worth of snails annually from all over the world, including
Nigeria. France also requires about15000metric tons of the delicacy annually. You
now see that this is an opportunity for you to get rich. You don’t have to go
in search of Job when you can conveniently
make millions of naira right at your backyard with little capital.
The
snails reproduce rapidly. They are capable of producing more than 300 eggs,
which hatch into snails. It is now possible to produce 1,000,000 snails worth
more than N20 million twice a year. This is made possible because of the
availability of very highly prolific ACHATINA ACHATINA species of snails, which
lay 200-400 in one batch 2-3 times a year.
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*******CONTENTS
OF THE E-BOOK********
CHAPTER ONE
1.0
Introduction to Heliculture…………………………..
1.1 Snail……………………………..
1.2 Suitable Snail
Species for Heliculture………………………
1.3 Benefits of Snails……………………….
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 Snail Environment
2.1 Soil Suitable For Snail Farm…………………..
2.2 Behavioural Habit of Snails………………..
2.3 The Snail House (Snailery)…………………………
2.4 System
of Rearing…………………………
2.5
Materials for Building a Snailery……………………….
2.5 List of Equipment Use
in Snail Farm……………………
2.6
Stocking density………………………………….
CHAPTER THREE
3.0
Feeding ……………………………………..
3.1 Snail Feeding Stuffs………………………..
3.2 Snail Nutrition Facts……………………..
3.3
Snail Feed Formulation…………………….
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0
Breeding……………………………………..
4.1
Choosing Foundation Stock……………………..
4.2
Nursery……………………………………………
4.3
Operational Management…………………………
4.4 Mating and Egg Laying ………………………………..
4.5
Hatchlings………………………………………
CHAPTER FIVE
5.0 The Snail Market …………………………………