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Message 1.Â
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011
Has any post member tried keeping snails to observe their life and habitat?
It is a similar discipline to beekeeping, from the breeding point of view.
No pollination though! -
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Posted by Italophile (U12516505) on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011
Sorry, I send them to meet their maker. Or eat them. Not the ones in my garden, obviously.
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Message 3
Posted by pottiepam (U11118368) on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011
I beleive there was an experiment last year where you had to paint a mark on snail shells then record how quickly they returned to your garden as it is now known they are 'homing'. The practice of throwing them in your neighbours garden if you are too kind hearted to squash them dosen't work as they will return.
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Message 4
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011
the ones in the garden are edible if they are big enough /"helix" something or other.
the trouble is that if they are not reared commercially for the table, they have too much grit, and it is absolutely not possible to get it all out. one bit of grit.... and the pleasure is gone. -
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Posted by Italophile (U12516505) on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011
Yep. True of life in general.
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Message 6
Posted by Toadspawn (U2334298) on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011
Hi
Breeding in bees and snails similar????
Snails are hermaphrodite (both sex organs in the same animal) yet they have to join together in order for mating to take place and the resulting progeny are all fertile and hermaphrodite. Snails have to mate every year they live in order to reproduce.
In bees the sexes are separate. Queen bees only mate once in their lifetime, with honey bees the virgin queen will mate with up to six males (drones). The queen can then lay either fertilised eggs which become sterile female worker bees or unfertilised eggs which become males.
Live snails are not around my garden very long because my plants are of greater value to me. -
Message 7
Posted by Kleftiwallah (U13700999) on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011
"Snails are very aerodynamic with a very good coefficient of lift" ! Cheers, Tony.
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Message 8
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011
Toadie Don't you know!
It is micro-husbandry Toadie.
Even if you were keeping Tsetse fly on a cow's whatzit it would still be micro-husbandry!
More popular term today Micro-management. Husbanding has gone out of fashion; it is management now.
I am not suggesting you breed Tsetse fly in your back garden, but i am sure toadie would have a bright idea if I did! -
Message 9
Posted by bogus the fungi man (U14705597) on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011
I've not tried breeding them but they are good kept for eating. Try searching for Mendip Wallfish or Worcestershire Wallfish.
Don't poison, crush, salt or launch them over the neighbour's fence.... eat them. They're really good. -
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Posted by Kleftiwallah (U13700999) on Thursday, 24th March 2011
I put them into orbit with a coarse fisherman's bail catapult (so I don't crush them on take-off)! Cheers, Tony.
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Message 11
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Thursday, 24th March 2011
I did not realize that the eggs actually just turn in to new snails, rather than hatch. Obvious really but i did not know it.
I succeeded in capturing them and producing about 50-60 eggs in the spring time, and did not know what to do with them.
(I was just moving house so it was not practical either)
Pity, since my late mother who lived here, conserved all the snails she could find by leaving them exactly where they were, but in renovating the garden in the last 18 months they have all had to go. She liked snails!
One of the Brittany breeders started selling a D-i-y pack at one time but i can't see it now.
Helix Aspersa
Different from the Walfish mentioned above. -
Message 12
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Thursday, 24th March 2011
The good thing about snail breeding is that it is pure lean protein, like a sea whelk, whereas the Bees mentioned above, although having very diverse uses for wax and propolis and so on, do mainly produce sugar (sucros/Fructose/glucose) which can be so damaging to the human metabolism, especially the mouth.
In that sense snails are easy to keep, much easier than hens, easier than bees, far less trouble! -
Message 13
Posted by bogus the fungi man (U14705597) on Thursday, 24th March 2011
I presume the Brittany breeder is selling something different to Helix aspersa? Probably Helix pomatia. Wallfish are the common garden snail, H. aspersa. Is this what you're saying? I started collecting them last year and gave them a go and found them very pleasant and, as you say, very easy to keep till they're needed. "Anything free suits me."
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Message 14
Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Thursday, 24th March 2011
I've only found the Dordogne people now. I've lost the Brittany lady from view.
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