How to start Snail rearing at Home with just 5000 naira and a Bucket
Types of Snails
1. Achatina fulica: this species of snail is the smallest in Africa but they are also one of the best snail species to rare in Africa, some has reddish brown colour while some has coffee colour. Adults of the species of Achatina fulica may exceed 20cm in shell length but generally average about 5 to 10cm.
The average weight of this species of snail is approximately 32 grams. They are small in size but they doesn’t mean that they will not be good for business, farmers who are rearing this species of snail has been making good profit from it.
2. Achatina Achatina: this species of snail are also known as the giant tiger land snail or the giant Ghana snail, it comes from the species of a very large air breathing snail known as pulmonate gastropod mollusk from the family of Achatinidae.
This giant snail possesses both the male and female reproductive organ, although two snails are still needed for them to reproduce they are still the best when it comes to reproduction.
The color of the body of this species of snail is silver brown, this species of snail can grow to a length of 200 mm and a diameter of 100 mm.
3. Archachatina Marginata: This species of snail are mostly called the giant West African snail, they comes from the species of an air breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk from the family of Achatinidae.
This snail species has a very long lifespan and can live for up to 10 years or more than, because of this it has become the most desirable species among farmers and rearers because it has more lifespan and can grown to become the biggest snail species in the World. It is also said that this species of snail originate from Nigeria. This snail can grow to a length of 20 centimeters. They are the most popular species in Nigeria and African because farmers and rearer prefer them due to their size.
Now that we have talked about the three common species that are best to rare in Africa, let’s talk about how we can start snail rearing at home with just 5000 naira and a bucket
People run away from snail rearing business because they thought starting it will consume a good amount of money but they are wrong because you can also start snail rearing business with as little as 5 thousand naira, it all depends on your capital at hand.
How to start snail rearing at home with just 5000 naira and a bucket
First build your snail house
The snail house is what will consume more than half of your start up capital because you have to hire experts to build it for you to avoid shortages in the future, you can also construct a snail house at home.
The price of 1 kilogram of snails meat is about 1500 naira to 2000 naira depending on the size and you can start with just one kg of one species of snail
If you don’t have money for the snail house you can use a wide bucket to construct something like this
You can also use old car tyres which are more spacious for the snail
If you are using a bucket, cut the buttom of the bucket then get some carefully selected sand that are not too wet and not too dry, make sure you select the sand and remove stones or any seed from it because it might cause harm to the snail especially when they start laying eggs.
After preparing the sand, cut the under of the bucket, dig the grind a little bit and put the bucket into it, pour the sand into the bucket and put your snail in the bucket.
After that cover the bucket with a net so as to give the snail some air
If you have a little space at your backyard you can plant pumpkin and water leaf because that is what snail eat or you can buy food for them including watermelons and cabbages which are very cheap to buy.The next step is to feed them every day and wait for them to start laying eggs
Then you start hatching the eggs
How to Artificially Hatch your Eggs
1. Get a bucket
2. Pour some loamy soil to a sizeable size
3. Place your eggs a little bit far from each other in the bucket
4. Cover them a little bit shallowly with some soil
5. Sprinkle water on them every morning
6. You can cover the bucket with plantain leaves
7. Keep it away from too much sunlight or too much rain water
When the egg finished hatching which might take about 28 days, add them to your snail house and continue doing this till your snail keep increasing
The risk involve in this method is that the snail cannot survive on water so you have to move them anytime you suspect rainfall but the best way to use this method is to rare them in a place where water cannot reach during rainfall because you might not be at home to move them all the time.
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