 | Better Farming Series 34 - Farming Snails 2: Choosing Snails; Care and Harvesting; Further Improvement (FAO, 1986, 35 p.) |
 |  | (introduction...) |
| | Preface |
|  | The snails |
| | Choosing your snails |
| | Putting your snails in the pen |
| | When to take out the fully grown snails |
| | Taking care of your snails |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Wet the food and shelter plants and moisten the ground |
| | Tend the food and shelter plants |
| | Take away the weeds and creeping grass |
| | Feeding your snails other kinds of food |
| | Building the second pen |
| | (introduction...) |
| | When to build the second pen and how to build it |
| | Putting snails in your second pen |
| | Harvesting your snails |
| | When to harvest your snails |
| | How to harvest your snails |
| | What to do with the snails you harvest |
| | Preparing snails for cooking |
| | Further improvement |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Building the third pen |
| | Building a bigger pen |
| | Taking better care of your snails |
Building a bigger pen
235. You may want to build a still bigger pen for your third pen so you can grow many more snails.
236. If you build a 5 x 10 metre pen, you can grow two times as many snails. If you build a 10 x 10 metre pen, you can grow four times as many snails as you did in a 5 x 5 metre pen.
Pens
237. However, building a bigger pen is a lot more work and you will need
· more land
· more materials to build it
· more food and shelter plants
· more fully grown snails to begin
238. You must also be sure that you and your family have enough time to take care of a bigger pen.
239. If you do decide to build a bigger pen, build it exactly the same way that you built your first 5 x 5 metre pen (see pages 43 to 46 in the last booklet).
Building a bigger
pen
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