CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What are the conditions and procedures for raising snails? (What are the conditions and procedures for raising snails?)

1. How to raise white jade snails at home?

1. Feeding method

Indoor closed breeding can be done in plastic basins, earthen basins, wooden boxes, cement pools, tanks, barrels, cans, etc., sealed with gauze, wet cloth, and film to keep warm and moisturize and prevent rodent damage. Indoor closed breeding is convenient for regulating temperature and humidity. With sufficient feed, it can not only wake up the snails from hibernation, but also achieve the purpose of winter breeding. It is best to use plastic film to seal the surroundings for indoor breeding to maintain temperature and humidity.

2. Preparation of breeding soil

Compound garden soil

30% uncontaminated sand, 30% farmland soil, 20% yellow sand, 15% coal ash, and 5% stone powder are mixed and crushed, exposed to the sun for 3 to 5 days for disinfection and insecticide, sieved, and then water is added to make the humidity about 40%, that is, it can be kneaded into a ball and fall apart with a blow. The thickness of the soil in the pot is: 7 cm for growing snails, 10 cm for adult snails, and 3 cm for young snails. It is replaced once every 1 to 2 months of feeding.

Sponge replacement method

Spread a 5 cm thick layer of sponge on the bottom of the pool or box, and keep it 4 times its own weight in water. Clean up leftover food every day and clean up feces every 3 days.

3. Feeding method

For young snails under one month old, they should be fed with some fresh and tender vegetable leaves. The concentrated feed should be softened with boiling water and stuck on the leaves. Feed once a day. The optimum temperature should be controlled at 25℃～30℃. The temperature difference between day and night should not be large. When spraying water, do not spray directly on the young snails. In addition to green feed, growing snails should be fed with more concentrated feed, and trace elements and additives should be added. The daily feeding amount is 7%～10% of the snail's body weight.

Feed should be placed in a food rack or bowl to facilitate cleaning of residues. The stocking density increases with the number of individuals, from dense to sparse, 400 to 200 per square meter. A 60×30×25 cm breeding box can hold 100 fish. After 5 to 6 months, when the shell height is 4 cm and the weight is more than 40 g, they can be harvested.

4. Winter management

Hibernation can be ended under artificial temperature and humidity control. If the breeding conditions are not met, when the temperature drops to around 15℃, insulation treatment should be carried out according to local conditions. If it is moved indoors, the breeding soil should be thickened to 25 cm and cotton wool should be used for insulation.

Additional information

The white jade snail is hermaphroditic and cross-fertilized, mating mostly at night or at dawn. April to June and September to November are the egg-laying seasons for snails, and they can lay eggs 6 to 7 times a year. The eggs can hatch into young white jade snails in about 8 days, and their lifespan is generally 5 to 6 years.

The snail is extremely sensitive to the environment. When the humidity and temperature are not suitable, the snail will retract its body into the shell and secrete mucus to form a protective film to seal the shell opening to overcome the interference of the adverse environment. When the environment is suitable, the protective film will automatically dissolve and resume activity.

Therefore, during the breeding process, attention should be paid to the influence of temperature and humidity. The suitable temperature is 16℃~30℃, humidity is 60%~85%, soil moisture is about 40%, and pH is 5~7. When the temperature is below 15℃ and above 35℃, it will go dormant and stop growing and reproducing.

The white jade snail is hermaphroditic and mates with different sexes. It can reproduce all year round in artificial breeding as long as the temperature and humidity are suitable. It usually takes 6 months from hatching to sexual maturity. It can lay eggs 15 to 20 days after mating and fertilization. The eggs are laid in the cave. The eggs are the size of mung beans and are covered with a layer of shiny white membrane. Each time, about 150 eggs are laid. The baby snails can be hatched in 8 to 15 days. The life span is generally 5 to 6 years.

2. How to raise snails on trees?

Methods and steps:

1. Feeding box

Snails can be kept in boxes made of glass, plastic or other materials. The best ones are transparent, so that it is easy to observe the snails in the box. The size of the box depends on the size of the snail. Generally speaking, it is best to choose a larger box to allow the snail to have a certain amount of space to move around. The box cannot be sealed, but must have a gap to allow air circulation inside the box.

2. Spread the breeding soil

After choosing a box for snails, you need to spread a layer of sterilized soil in the box. The soil can be some soil dug from the vegetable field and spread on the bottom of the box, with a height of about one-fourth of the box. Because snails like a humid environment, the soil must be kept moist and not too dry. Therefore, according to the dryness of the soil, spray the soil with water.

3. Feeding

Snails are omnivorous animals

Snails like to eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, melons, etc. In daily feeding, you can feed snails with various vegetable leaves, some rotten fruits, wheat flour, etc.

Snails can be fed with a variety of foods such as sesame, white beans, etc. You can feed them in different ways. You don't have to feed them a single food. But be careful that snails are afraid of salt and salty foods, so be sure not to let them eat salt.

4. Breeding environment

Snails are most afraid of direct sunlight and are sensitive to the environment. The most suitable temperature for snails is 16-30℃ (the fastest growth and development is at 23-30℃).

60-90%, the humidity of the breeding soil is about 40%, and the pH is 5-7. When the temperature is below 15℃ and above 33℃, the snails will hibernate. If the temperature is below 5℃ or above 40℃, they may be frozen to death or heat-killed. In winter and other cold weather, snails will enter hibernation.

5. Hygiene and cleaning

Snails like a clean environment, so you should pay attention to the cleanliness of the breeding box. Generally, you should clean it every 3 to 4 days to remove the food residues and snail feces in the box to provide the snail with a clean environment. In addition, you should also put some leaves, branches, etc. in the box for the snails to crawl and play on. But be sure to spray water on the box to keep it moist.

3. How to raise snails? Can you only raise one?

You can raise one. Snails are easy to raise.

Snails need to be kept in a humid, cool environment. For example, you can put clean and odorless paper towels in a box or basin, spray them with water and put food and snails in them. When the paper towels are dry, sprinkle them with water again, and replace them when they are dirty.

The container for breeding snails needs to be well permeable to water and air. If you don't want the snails to run around, it's best to cover the container with gauze. If the owner has the conditions to obtain moist sand or soil, it can be used instead of paper towels.

Snails like to eat tender vegetable leaves. When they are kept, they can be fed three times a day, with one or two cleaned vegetable leaves or fruit peels each time. Snails will die when they come into contact with salt, so never let them touch anything containing salt.

The suitable living environment temperature for snails is 25-30 degrees. When the temperature drops to 15 degrees, snails will enter hibernation. If the temperature is too high, snails will lose a lot of water and die.

4. Where to farm snails artificially?

1. The breeding site of snails can be planned and designed according to the scale of breeding. Large-scale breeding can adopt indoor breeding, field breeding, shed breeding, soil ditch breeding and other methods, while small-scale breeding can adopt tank breeding, wooden box breeding, courtyard breeding, balcony breeding and other methods. Regardless of which breeding method is used, the breeding site must be set up and planned according to the characteristics of snails, but the snails must be placed in a quiet, dark, humid, warm and vibration-free environment.

2. You can use farmland to breed snails. First, plow the soil and then fine it. Plant some broad-leaved trees around the farmland to provide shade. Be sure to use nets around it to effectively prevent snails from escaping. You can also use the roof of a flat-roofed house for breeding. Put a layer of loose soil more than 10 cm thick on the roof, and plant a few grapes around it to build a trellis for shade. Use nets around it. The advantages of open-air breeding are fresh air, good humidity, fast growth of snails, and mild disease. But be careful. When the weather is dry, you must sprinkle water in time to keep the soil moist.

3. You can also choose to breed snails in plastic greenhouses. First, choose an open space of 30 meters long and 6 meters wide, plow the soil once, build a 30cm high wall around it, and then build a plastic greenhouse. After the greenhouse is built, level the plowed soil in the greenhouse and you can breed. The advantage of breeding in plastic greenhouses is that it is easy to adjust the temperature and prevent natural enemies, but you should pay attention to adding sunshade facilities in the hot season to keep the soil moist and the air properly convective.

2. What soil should be used for breeding snails?

1. To breed snails, you must use moist, loose, humus-rich soil, and in order to prevent the soil from hardening, you should replace it about once every six months or a year. At the same time, the soil humidity should be kept at 15%-18%, and must not exceed 21%. You can also mix farmland soil, sandy soil, yellow sand, cinder ash, and stone powder in a ratio of 3:2:1:5:0.5 to make breeding soil, then expose it to the sun for a few days for disinfection, and finally add appropriate amount of water to make the soil humidity reach 40%.

2. Snails prefer to live in a dark, humid, loose and humus-rich environment. They are afraid of direct sunlight and are sensitive to the environment. They usually hide in caves during the day and come out to look for food at night. Snails will live in the soil, lay eggs, regulate body humidity and absorb some nutrients. The suitable growth temperature is 23-30°C. When the temperature is below 15°C, they will enter hibernation.

3. Snails have a particularly strong ability to survive and have a strong tolerance to cold, heat, hunger and drought. They have a wide range of diets, including all kinds of vegetables, weeds, melon and fruit peels, crop stems and leaves, flowers, juicy fruits, etc. You can feed them tender leaves, weeds, melon and fruit peels, crop stems and leaves, various green grass and highland barley feeds, etc., and feed them three times a day.

5. What should I do to raise snails?

Snail farming does not require animal quarantine, you only need to go to the Industry and Commerce Bureau to apply for a business license and a health permit.

In the process of snail breeding, attention should be paid to the combination of its feed. Some calcium, phosphorus and vitamin supplements can be appropriately provided, and attention should be paid to its feeding method. Attention should be paid to the freshness of its feed, and rotten and spoiled feed should not be fed. The most important thing in snail breeding is to control the temperature and humidity, which is the key to breeding snails. Therefore, the optimal growth temperature of snails is about 25°C, and the relative humidity of the breeding box and soil cannot be lower than 30% or greater than 50%, otherwise it will seriously affect the growth of snails. Only by doing a good job in snail breeding management can the economic benefits of snail breeding be effectively improved, and farmers should pay attention to it.

6. How long does it take to breed snails?

It takes 5-6 years to breed snails. As a mollusk, snails have a short lifespan. In a suitable living environment, they usually live for about 5 to 6 years, and can live up to 7 years. Snails have amazing survival ability and are very tolerant to cold, heat, starvation, and drought. However, if they live in unsuitable living conditions, they will die faster and their lifespan will be shortened.

7. How to keep snails in the soil?

Flowers grown at home are generally potted. If the soil in the flowerpot is not handled carefully, it may contain insect eggs. Therefore, the soil should be dried and screened before being placed in the flowerpot. If conditions permit, it can be steamed at high temperature.

2. If there is no problem with the flower soil, then you need to consider the location and environment of the flower pot. If the environment is humid and hot, the air flow is poor, and it is often placed after rain, it is easy to attract snails. So the location of the flower pot should also be carefully selected.

3. If snails appear in the flower pot, you can catch them. But for your own health, it is best not to catch them with bare hands. You can use tweezers to pick up the snails and put them in a plastic bag or bottle to take away. Remember to wash your hands afterwards.