Snail harvesting

Snail havesting - Small snail animals with finished edge must be discarded the obtaining by harvesting brings prepared some complications, although amendable.

He is more advisable to carry out it at the end of winter and beginnings of spring. They have all its reproductive potential and they begin its activity to plenary session. Just they leave the natural period of hibernation, is the moment of smaller risk with respect to pathologies.

Those snails of greater size are due to choose, (30 mm or more), observing that do not have the edge of the finished opening, this must be filoso, fine and of indefinite white coloration. The finished edge is white and defined well, with a thickness of approximately 1-1,5 mm and its appearance and texture they remember a tiled one.

This edge means to snail harvesting adulthood guarantee of the residual number of positions is not had, however the edge without finishing says of its youth and aptitude to us, giving us certain margin as far as the amount of future positions, although first they can not be optimal.

Snail Farm: Intensive System

It is the snail; farming system is the one that need the most of investment and professionalism. But in reward, it offers profitability as long as the investment made.

A detailed and polished planning, followed by a consequent and systematic organization is the key to make profitable an intensive system snail farm. You should have present the possibility is building a processing plant if you want to avoid intermediation, otherwise, it would not be rentable.

The Snail Product

To achieve having a snail product for sale it will be necessary to have a series of processes by stages. The fist step will be the set up of a reproducers farm. There are 2 ways:

- Buying reproducers with sanitary certificate an guaranteeo Recollecting snails from nature to form the farm.

- Buying increase the initial investment. You have to specialized places where they sell snail reproducers.

It accelerates the start. It is a way to make more viable the future sale according to the origin and quality guarantee that buy supposes. It entails a period of quarantine, of adaptation, having death losses during adaptation, during transportation from the original place, the incidence of pathologies; and others, adaptation to nutrition, or adapting new foods. Besides, overcoming importing processes.

Defining the number of reproducers of buying or recollecting according:

- Projected volume of reproduction

- Natural decrease of the number of eggs

- Eggs that do not hatch

- Natural mortality during reproduction

- Rule out of eggs and animals for not having commercial size.

- Natural mortality during all the phases of snail farming.