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Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by holar37(m): 4:05pm On Sep 14, 2015 |
dyoungforester: Hope u moved down with ur snails sir |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 7:33am On Sep 15, 2015 |
No sir, I didn't' but I have done the necessary preparation for them . |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by UrennaNkoli(f): 9:08am On Sep 15, 2015 |
dyoungforester:I heard if you feed snails with maggots they would grow fat? ![]() |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 12:44pm On Sep 15, 2015 |
OK sir . |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by plopapy: 8:45pm On Nov 01, 2015 |
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Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by 4llyk: 8:13pm On Nov 28, 2015 |
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Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 11:07pm On Nov 28, 2015 |
OK I will copy your number and save it. Thanks |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by thintug: 9:04am On Nov 30, 2015 |
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Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by SANCTO: 3:08pm On Dec 18, 2015 |
dyoung forester u are God sent |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 9:59am On Dec 21, 2015 |
Thanks to you @ Sanctor. May God almighty help us all. Dyoung Forester. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by seunope2004(m): 1:45pm On Dec 22, 2015 |
dyoungforester, I really appreciate the quantity and quality of information you have freely given here. Am a little bit confuse about a matter and i need some clarification from you. I went into the wild to get some snails, the snails look like the one you described in your picture but looks smaller. After about a month saw tiny eggs smaller than the one you showed in your pictures. 1) Do i have right snails? 2) Can Achatina fulica eggs be that small?
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Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 9:10pm On Dec 22, 2015 |
Boss Seun, Those tiny snails you held in your hands are called 'hatchlings' they were gotten from the snails eggs that had layed in your farm, all What you need to do is to gather them in one separate pen and feeds them with succulent leave like amaranths or chicken feeds.Thanks....For your effort... Dyoung forester. 1 Like |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by seunope2004(m): 7:28pm On Dec 24, 2015 |
dyoungforester: Thank you bro! But they are not big like the one in your pictures |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 3:00pm On Jan 04, 2016 |
Good news to the snails lover in the house, Dyoung forester had found a viable free range farming / housing which l can recommend to the people are interested in the farming, I will update you with pics later... One love keep us together Dyoung forester.. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 3:09pm On Jan 04, 2016 |
An entrepreneur/ entrepriser never quite when his goals keeps on rolling... in his dream. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 10:54pm On Jan 04, 2016 |
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Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 10:56pm On Jan 04, 2016 |
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Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 10:59pm On Jan 04, 2016 |
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Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 11:05pm On Jan 04, 2016 |
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Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 4:56pm On Jan 23, 2016 |
A customer once asked the following questions on snails production and its techniques, so I decided to share it so that other interesting fellows can benefit from it. Question Sir, what I want to know. 1 how many snails can the pen of length (7) feet, weight (6) feet, depth (4) feet, can the spaces contains 17000 snails. 2 planting inside pen, which types of crops can I plant, and how many months can the crops grow, before putting snails. 3 can I put the three types of species in one place. (BEST SPECIES) (a) archachatina. Marinate (b) archachatina. (c) archiving fulica. 4 which types of vegetable's Andy order leaves, waste food, which is very cheap. 5 how many litres of water can I pour in 170n00n snails in a pen, and how many times in a day. Answer Thanks for the question ma, 1. Length * breadth * height (7*6*4), this dimension is too small for the number of snails you intends to embark upon, I even thought, may be you wanted to type or say 1,700 and not 17,000 snails and if it is 17,000 that is a large production of snails you are intending to venture in, and it may require a plot of land for the construction of the snail housing. But if it is 1,700 snails you mean ma, and I think a dimension of 20*10*6(Length*breadth*height) would be better and more accommodating for both the present and for future benefit of the snails and its snailery when those snails would keep on reproducing, and regarding your dimension ma, I think it can only accommodate 500 -1000 snails. 2. You can plant the following crops/ plant such as tomatoes, vegetables, potatoes, cucumber, cocoa plant, tridax procumbens and other eatable plants. The plant would be better and ok to stock in around 2-3 months after the planting out, since the height would serve as shelter for them. 3. Yes you can stock in different species of snails in the same pen provided that the number of stocking snails are aggregate in terms of number I.e Archachatina marginata 20, Achatina fulica 20, Achatina achatina 20, with this, I think nothing would alter their productivity rate, but if the pen is spacious enough I think demarcation and compartment would be better for their housing system. 4. There are three different species of west African giant land snails, which are:- 1.Archachatina marginata 2. Achatina achatina 3. Achatina fulica. The best of them all are 1,2,3 in respective order. The most populous or common ones are 1,3,2 in respective order. The leaves have been stated above but regarding the waste food/ kitchen waste they consume the following food waste such are:- 1. Eba, fufu, rice, bread, pap, beans, banana and its peel, Maize shaft. E.t.c. 5. I can't say precisely this is the amount of litres of water to be used to moist your snailery is this. And note you can only moist the floor and not to wet it or it shouldn't be over logged. If for large snailery unit using a sprinkler would be the best but if it is a smaller ones using a hose pipe or a watery can should be adopted. Thanks For reading from Dyoung forester. Our Motto:- Breeding to be the best. 2 Likes |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by seunope2004(m): 8:24pm On Feb 10, 2016 |
Thank you very much for the education you provide for us freely, i really appreciate it. My issue is that about 100 fulica hatchlings just dried up dead after about a month of life. I saw small white ant inside their transparent shell and when i crush the shell it is dry. The little snail was put in a separate container, with humus soil, under shed from sun and feed with water leaf. Am i missing smth |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 11:18am On Feb 11, 2016 |
Thanks@seun, u did the right things, but the soil should be loamy not humus soil. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by Ifedayour007(m): 2:39pm On Feb 11, 2016 |
dyoungforester: You are the boss. I am really interested in Snail farming. Please send me your whats-app number.. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 9:35am On Feb 12, 2016 |
Thanks, 07066444540 |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by Urbangrow: 2:56pm On Mar 03, 2016 |
Hi please can anyone identify what specie of snails is in the attached picture? There seems to be a lot of baby snails that have the same shape as the crawling ones on the picture in one my snail pens. I have attached the 3rd picture of the baby snails.
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Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 10:44am On Mar 04, 2016 |
That is Achatina fulica |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by Johnnyessence(m): 3:52pm On Mar 04, 2016 |
welldone on ur project bro love these snails ooooo. keep up the good work moving sir.following patiently |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by orlard3(m): 6:17pm On Mar 04, 2016 |
dyoungforester: Tnx for all info, i will like to visit ur farm wenever i'm in abeokuta. Add me to ur watsapp 08053030955 |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by Austin234(m): 3:33pm On Jul 28, 2016 |
I read frm zero page to the point of my reply. Can 200k give me a complete snailery with 5,000 maginata snails on it? Cost of land excluded |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 3:56am On Aug 09, 2016 |
yes it will sir, just make sure you do all the necessary things regarding the snailery and the snails you wanna stock in. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by dyoungforester(m): 9:14am On Aug 10, 2016 |
Morning to you all, I'm available now, if you have any question to ask me you may ask and answer sha be provided. Thanks. Dyoung forester. |
Re: Interesting Facts About The West African Giant Land Snails by Danoluwa(m): 10:34am On Aug 10, 2016 |
Pls on the average, how much will it cost to build a free range on a plot of land? |
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