Farming snails 2: Choosing snails; Care and harvesting; Further improvement: Further improvement: Building a bigger pen

Farming snails 2: Choosing snails; Care and harvesting; Further improvement
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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

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

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

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