The field snail is hailed as the king of late-night snacks, so how should it be farmed well?

The field snail is rich in protein, vitamins, essential amino acids and trace elements for the human body, and is a typical high-protein, low-fat natural health food. The species suitable for artificial rearing include the Chinese field snail, the Beijing field snail, and the Chinese round snail. So how can field snails be farmed well? Let's take a look together below~

I. Feeding and management of brood snails

Female snails lay eggs once every 25 to 30 days, continuing until October, with as few as a few dozen eggs or as many as 2000. The brood snail pond should be chosen in a place with a convenient water source, substrate rich in humus, and water not polluted by pesticides or toxic substances. The water depth should be 30 cm to 80 cm, and the area can be large or small, with about 100 brood snails stocked per sq m. Thicker bamboo posts and wooden sticks should be inserted in and around the pond to provide places for the brood snails to lay eggs. Artificial feeding is mainly duckweed, human urine, rice bran and wheat bran, applied twice a week, with each feeding amounting to about 30% of the field snails' weight.

II. Feeding and management of young snails

Field snails are not strict about their environment; ponds, ditches, rice fields, wooden barrels and large basins can all be used for stocking, generally with 1000 young snails per sq m. Their main food is microorganisms in the water or the tender stems and leaves of aquatic plants. For artificial rearing, a certain amount of farmyard manure should be applied to cultivate the water quality and breed plankton. In addition, organic fertilizer composted from weeds at the pond edge is also a good feed for raising field snails. By-products from various grain processing plants and discarded vegetables can all be fed. Each application of manure at 30% of the snails' body weight is sufficient, and concentrated feed such as rice bran and wheat bran at 10% of the snails' body weight is appropriate, applied twice a week.

III. Issues to note in field snail rearing

Field snails breathe through gills in the water, so attention should be paid to the dissolved oxygen content in the water, new water should be added frequently, and excess aquatic plants should be removed. Field snails fear heat but not cold; they will not die after being out of water for several days in winter, yet a few hours of intense summer heat can kill them. In high-temperature seasons, the water level should be deepened or shade increased to prevent heat and lower the temperature. Attention should also be paid to preventing ants, spiders, cockroaches and the like from harming the field snail eggs. In addition, escape prevention work should be done well; although field snails move sluggishly, they also escape easily, especially at the outlet of the rearing pond, where anti-escape facilities should be strengthened.

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