HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO REAR A SNAILS TO JUMBO SIZE FOR SELL? - Speakersden Snail Farming

ANSWER TO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS FREQUENTLY ASKED  IN SNAIL FARMING BUSINESS:  " HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE ME TO REAR MY SNAILS TO A VERY BIG SIZE FOR SELL?"

I will love to address this question in this way:  In  every livestock business, there are different business opportunities. I will like to boost my answer by bringing in a more popular area of livestock business, poultry. When you ask any practical snail farmer  this question, is just like asking a poultry farmer that set out to go into egg production , hatchery, 3weeks breed and sell, 2 months meat production stage, 3-4months big size birds, how long will it take him/her to get to old layers stage. In snail farming, the ideal thing is to kick off your farm with what we call Point of Lay (POL). Snails start laying at 9months. So if you kick off with snails that are 9months to one year is good. When they lay, you  can hatch and decide to sell as baby snails. You can also sell your snails at grower stage ,  point of lay stage, table size stage or jumbo stage. The truth  of the matter is that no snail farmer that understands the business, will set out to rear his/her snail from baby snail to jumbo, having in mind that his/her target is to reach jumbo size. If you set out for that only,  l will say is a waste of resources. I will want you to understand this more by giving example with my practical experience in my farm. I started my farm with eighty (80) point of lay AMO specie of snails, which is the specie that lays the least number of eggs. As l culled them off in less than two years that they were with me, they left behind about three thousand snails plus some eggs in my incubator. This is bar mortality. You can see that my effort and target was not to get to very big size snails to sell but l have sold them and made some cash. This is just like what happens when a poultry farmer culls off his/her old layers.

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In summary, l will say that the business of snail farming is not on setting out to grow your snails to very big size. Good snail farmers do not like keeping their snails to grow so big because the bigger they are, the less productive they are.

I will also love to use this channel to ask my follow snail farmers to think about how we can carry the business to the level of selling snail eggs.  I know the challenge is that snail eggs are so fragile.  Little heat causes crack on them and when they are cracked, they do not hatch. Not withstanding let's keep on researching on the way forward.

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