How to eat and raise snails?

Snails eat a wide range of food, mainly vegetables, weeds and melon skin; Leaves, stems, buds, flowers and juicy fruits of crops; Eat all kinds of grass highland barley feed, juicy feed, bran feed and cake feed. Snails eat with their mouths.

For indoor artificial breeding of snails, it is advisable to choose a leeward open space, and build a feeding shed of 20 meters, 3 meters wide and 2 meters high with bamboo or steel bars, and cover the shed with plastic film. It can also be used to cultivate vegetables in plastic soil shed, old glass greenhouse or soil hotbed. For indoor seedbed cultivation, it is advisable to use cement and steel bars to cast boards with a length of 1 m and a width of 0.8 m, and build them into 3-4 layers with a height of 0.6-0.8 m. Then, screen windows are used to separate each layer, and humus soil with a thickness of 1.5cm is spread on the two layers, so that 30 snails can be placed in each square meter, and 1 is carried out every day. Indoor wooden box breeding should be done in boxes with a length of about 90cm, a width of 45cm and a height of 40cm. Spread humus soil with a thickness of 10 ~ 15 cm in the box and put vegetable leaves. Put 20 ~ 30 snails in two boxes and water them every two nights to make the inner walls of the boxes moist.

Snails should be fed once a night. Vegetables, crops, green manure crops, weeds, roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, peels, residues and waste paper can all be used, and some concentrated feed, protein feed and mineral feed can also be added. It can also be fed once every two days. Snails can eat leftover rice and humus. Keep sprinkling water, so that the field humidity is 15 ~ 27%, the pH is 5 ~ 7, and the air humidity is 75 ~ 90%. When the young snails hatched in that year, they reached five snail layers in five months, weighing more than 50 grams, and the largest reached about 90 grams. The harm of natural enemies such as chickens, ducks, sparrows, pigeons and mice should be prevented in breeding.

Key points of breeding

Temperature 16 ~ 40℃, the optimum temperature is 25℃, generally high or low. Earthworms must be used to make a fire for heating, which should be prepared all year round, especially in late spring and early summer. To prevent sudden cooling, conditional heating is best, and furnace heating is not allowed.

Humidity. The soil surface humidity of the feeding soil should be kept at 25% ~ 35%, and the relative humidity of the air should be 85% ~ 90% to make it moist, and the top should be covered with plastic sheets for moisture control and moisturizing.

In order to prevent dry air and cold air from blowing in directly, double doors, hanging cloth and wind deflector should be adopted at the entrance.

Resolutely control the odor from entering the breeding ground.

Feeding soil must be controlled at pH 6.5 ~ 7.5, and sandy soil polluted by pesticides and chemicals shall not be used.

Breeding containers must have good water permeability and air permeability.

Don't be exposed to strong light when you are not working, preferably in the dark. Lighting with 15W red bulb at night can stimulate spawning.

The hatching of eggs. The key to the success or failure of snail farming lies in the hatching of eggs. Indoor temperature is controlled at 20 ~ 25℃, air humidity is controlled at 90% ~ 95%, and soil surface humidity is controlled at 25% ~ 30%. Improve the method of egg collection and incubation, and adopt the 60-day snail cultivation method. This method can greatly improve the reproductive efficiency of snails, and the general hatching rate is above 95%.

The feeding of young snails is related to the success or failure of the rapid development of snail quantity and output, especially the control of temperature and humidity. Generally, the temperature should be controlled between 25 ~ 30℃, the water content of the soil is 30% ~ 35%, and the relative humidity of the air is 80% ~ 90%. Eat more fresh and juicy feed, supplemented by calcium supplements.