Benefits of Heliculture

 Benefits of Snails
1.     The meat is very proteinous, and low in cholesterol

2.     It contains most of all the essential nutrients required for healthy growth.

3.     The meat has high percentage of protein, iron calcium.

4.     The meat contains some properties for fighting high blood pressure, anaemia.

5.     It has no religion barrier.

6.     Snail lime is used as powerful adhesive

7.     Their shell are used as source of calcium in poultry

8.     Snail slime can be sold as beverage.

Choosing Foundation Stock

It is recommended to use sexually mature snails, weighing at least 100-125 g, as first breeding stock. Farming should preferably start at the onset of the wet season, because that is the time snails normally start to breed. Snails are active at night and on cloudy or foggy mornings. During the day they tend to keep well hidden, so it is best to collect them at night or early in the morning, when the sun is low and the humidity high.

Farmers purchasing breeding stock from snail gatherers or from the market should expect a fairly high level of mortality as a result of poor handling and the adjustment to different foods.

   The most reliable way of obtaining parental stock is from known breeders, or from agricultural institutes. Such parent snails might be more expensive than snails from other sources, but they are better and safer because they have been properly fed and managed from hatching, and have not been damaged during collection and subsequent handling. Once the snail farm is established, farmers should select breeding stock from their own snails. Breeding stock must be selected in the wet season preceding aestivation, based on the following attributes:

Prolificacy (expected number of eggs, based on numbers laid in previous seasons).

Hatchability (percentage of eggs likely to hatch out of the total number laid).

Establishment rate (percentage of snails likely to survive after hatching) .

Growing rate.

Shell strength.

   Simple records kept by snail farmers can provide the necessary information. As a general rule, the fastest growers with the strongest shells should be selected as breeding stock. The stronger its shell, the better the snail is protected against predators.

I often advise intending farmers to source for their first stock from reputable farms. Do not buy from market sellers. Most of the stocks there have stayed hooked without food for weeks or months in the market; they may have been demoralized; hence this might affect their reproductive potentials. Don’t fetch or buy baby snails for rearing; buy matured ones so that after they can start mating and reproduce almost immediately they get to your farm.

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