It is true that snails are easy to breed, but this is only for experienced professional farmers. If they are novices who have not been exposed to snails, various troubles will follow, such as what did snails eat and grow up? How to feed it?
It doesn't matter that you didn't know about these two issues that are most closely related to the cultivation of snails. Next, it is the main topic to share with you today.
1. What do farmed snails eat and grow up?
What do farmed snails eat to grow up? I believe that many people can't figure it out with their heads crushed. In fact, if we want to know what the snail grew up eating, we can find the answer from the range of its wild activities.
The range of activities of wild snails is usually relatively small. What do you see from it? It is as slow as a snail's crawling speed, which shows this point. Accurately speaking, it is related to snails, but one is a landlubber and the other likes to take a bath. Since the snail's crawling speed is so slow, it shows that it won't worry about lack of food. What kind of food won't worry the snail? There is only one possibility, that is, these foods can't run. At best, they can't run even if they want to. The food with this characteristic can only be plants, which means that snails are mainly vegetarian, including all kinds of plankton, young aquatic plants and so on.
Of course, we can also get proof from another aspect. Now there are a lot of snails in the countryside, right? As a relative and neighbor of the snail, he is also a plant-based quality person. Some people may ask, why not eat meat? Think about it, what kind of meat can a snail eat at such a slow crawling speed? There is a lot of fish, but it's a pity that it can't catch up.
2. How to feed? As can be seen from the above introduction, since the snail is a vegetarian animal, it is easy to supply food, but there are still some feeding points to remember.
1. Food sources: Snails have a wide range of food sources. In nature, snails usually feed on young aquatic plants or plankton. Then the cultured snail can be fed with cow dung or chicken manure, and at the same time, it can promote the growth and reproduction of plankton or aquatic plants in the water, and finally indirectly provide more food sources for the growth of snail.
In addition, some vegetables or rotten fruits can be mashed and fed. Of course, most farmers still use wheat bran, soybean meal and corn flour as snail feed according to the ratio of 6:3: 1. The advantage is that the high protein content of soybean flour can accelerate the growth rate. Like other poultry feeds, snails can be fed, but the price is relatively high and it also contains a lot of soybean meal.
Don't forget that the leftover bean curd residue is also a good feed, and you can also use some distiller's grains mixed with wheat bran or soybean meal to feed together.
Note: the feces of poultry or livestock must be fermented and decomposed to kill parasites inside and then evenly fed.
2. Food dosage: There are three kinds of feeds that can be matched, namely fermented farmyard manure, and some forage and concentrate. The so-called concentrate is a high-protein feed with feed or soybean meal.
For the first time, the amount of feed for snail seedling culture was a little more, mainly to improve the organic matter content and fertility of water. The proportion was 250 kg of fermented and decomposed farm manure, 200 kg of concentrate and 600 kg of forage per mu.
In the later stage, the daily concentrate dosage is 1% of the total weight of the seedlings, and the farmyard manure is also 1% of the first seedling weight. After the snails give birth, the feed dosage can be appropriately increased according to the actual situation.
Attachment: the stocking amount of snail seedlings per mu is between 200 kg and 400 kg, which must be remembered.
To sum up, it is actually very easy to breed snails, provided that you have a certain understanding of the living environment of snails, which is the basis for breeding snails well.