Better Farming Series 33 - Farming Snails 1: Reaming about Snails; Building a Pen; Food and Shelter Plants (FAO, 1986, 57 p.): Learning about snails: How many snails will you need when you first begin?

Better Farming Series 33 - Farming Snails 1: Reaming about Snails; Building a Pen; Food and Shelter Plants (FAO, 1986, 57 p.)

Learning about snails

		(introduction...)
		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

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).

150 small snails; 25 large snails