Farming snails 1: Learning about snails; Building a pen; Food and shelter plants հղում աղբյուրինfb33fe.htm |
Introduction |
What do you need to start? |
Learning about snails |
What kind of snails can you farm? |
Where can you get snails? |
Where can you farm snails? |
The soil and the water in the soil |
Plants for food and plants for shelter |
Dew and rain |
Land that is wet |
Wind |
Where do you keep snails when you farm them? |
How many snails will you need when you first begin? |
How much snail meat can you expect to get? |
Now you must decide |
How to begin |
Choose a place on your land to put your snail farm |
Clean the site and prepare the ground |
Building a pen |
Plant the food and shelter plants |
When are the plants big enough for food and for shelter? |
70. If you are using small snails like those you have seen on pages 8 and 9 in this booklet, you will need more snails to begin.
71. If you are using large snails like those you have seen on pages 10 and 11 in this booklet, you will need fewer snails to begin.
72. With a pen of 5 x 5 metres (25 square metres) you will need
• 150 snails if you use the small kind (6 for each square metre)
• 25 snails if you use the large kind (1 for each square metre).