Thanks for always feeding us with the right information. I had the opportunity to visit his farm and OMG, the training was great. One on one interactions, facts and figures, detailed question and answers. I left the place highly inspired. Thank you sir, God bless you.
Mr Samuel, thanks for doing this great work. Please I want your expertise on these informations. 1. I heard AA eggs has a lot of mortality, that few of them survive. 2. AA don't survive in Nigeria because of our weather. 3. AA don't grow big like AM. Please help me address these
Thank you my brother, you actually answered the question that I had sent to that gentleman regarding the carrying capacity of those green houses. I told him to help me out if I'd done my calculations wrong but a 5x15 meter green house was too small to raise snail free range, unless the 2000 snails are in there for fattening. He didn't respond. Thank you for your insightful and highly educative video
Interestingly enough I got a response yesterday stating that with a thousand snails in a 5by15 greenhouse I would need to build other spaces to transfer juveniles into
Samuel, thank you. Your video is packed full of useful information. Can you or have you made a video on how to exactly mimic their habitat in greenhouse?
Ways of doing things are changing everyday at a high speed rate. Knowledge is expanding, what we were doing in the past years are now becoming outdated. So we should always see ourselves as 'WE DON'T KNOW' we are still learning. At first we did not know that we can even construct net cages for rearing snails, all we thought is digging and rearing snails in the ground. The soil in the ground if not treated well contains a lot of micro organism, especially for imprisoned snails held in captivity. So people are now trying to see if they can go soiless (farming snails with only dried mulched leaves) and given them the same nutrients they need to survive in the soil. So if people can farm on desert lands with modern technology, then it is possible.
I really wished I could send a voice note to answer this 😂 Please do your research. The fact that technology and way of doing stuff are fast changing does not mean that we do anything that is proposed without looking at the output in totality. Do you know how many abysmal inventions have been cut out of the system to save lives? I’ll urge you to watch my video on greenhouses. Without prior knowledge in snail farming, common sense will even expose the lies. Do you know how many net house owners call me weekly to cry out the output results? It would be okay if it was easy to mitigate those problems easily like the trench system. The owners of trench housing system do face challenges but it’s quickly corrected. About the soilless system, please I won’t tutor you on it. I think it’s about time people do their own research. Why do you think the Koreans farming Fulica find the need to use soil? You think they are not wise? All the best chief. A word to the wise is enough.
Chief I just realized you sent me an initial message saying you are yet to start so why are you sounding like you know better? 🤦🏾 Yes we can question ideas but how about thinking through my videos. If they don’t resonate with you, it’s okay to do other things.
KT Samuel, please were are you located in ghana, I have been following your blog and I've seen all your heart of giving, I will like to say thank you for the work you do, and the lowly ones you devoted to help! Please I want to do a snail farm, I want you to know that you always make sense, how do I get in contact when I'm ready? I'm gratefully looking forward to your response thanks!
@@k.t.samuel Thanks for your prompt response, I am very much appreciative, i will surely contact you when I'm ready, once again thank in advance, bless you!
Sammy you are doing a great job educating us about this beautiful creatures…. I hav a question. In the gallery system, how many cages/pen do u need to contain the minimum 200,000 (the 1 year multiplier effect) u are likely to bread as per your calculations?
Thanks for the commendation. Kindly note that not all 200,000 snails will be brought forth the same day. It will depend on your business model or strategy to decide whether to keep them all or sell off at a certain age. Since they will be in various stages of life, it will be difficult telling how many snail pens will be needed. This is because at some age you can keep 5000 snails in a pen and at some other stage you may want to even keep just 50 in a pen. Thanks
I also think the sexual age of the snail contributes to the number of eggs, it may produce. I don't think POL snails will produce much at the beginning. So the farmer is trying to just suggest the minimum average expentancy may be of 1st time laying snails (depending on their age). So l don't think he has deviated.
Obviously they won’t start laying 600. Have you done snail farming yet? I doubt you know the video I talked about. In the said video, he explained snails in no way can lay up to 200 snails. He did not talk about about first time layers. Some first time layers are able to lay over 200. I think you’re trying to defend something you do not even know about
I just realized you’re ur bugging. Bro, your initial comment said you are yet to start a snail farm. So why are you Defending a lie when you haven’t even tried snail farming yet? This page is for educating people. A simple googling can save you this embarrassment.
Thanks Sam for your efforts. What are your thoughts on starting a small farm with disused tyres. If snails can nibble on concrete, wont they do same on toxic tyres?
Thanks for your video. I had 6 fulicas in my house and they were just laying so much, I had to take out the six snails. Ask me why? I had like over 400 baby snails to nurture. 😮
@@k.t.samuel I had to run because I was breeding them inside where I live. I can send you some pictures privately cos I won't like to make it public. You'll be amazed that a lot of rubbish people say should just be ignored. Snails can survive under various conditions even indoors!
I had 3 fulicas and one of them lay 470 eggs two days ago (12/05/2023). I've already incubated the eggs and now I'm working on constructing a wooden pen to start with
Snail Greenhouse farming in West Africa is unnecessary (part 2). My last take on it !! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TSmsvWqaAcE.html
Thank you for this video. I'm inexperienced in snail farming (barely a year) but I've spotted so many misinformation on the internet about snail farming (and many of them are from evangelists of green house system) I have a question though. You mentioned oyster shell being the best source of calcium for snails, for someone who's got access to ONLY chicken egg shells what would you advice to do in other to increase calcium quality? Also, I once saw a RU-vid video of someone mixing classroom chalk with egg shells and I'm asking, is classroom chalk good for snails?
Thank you for affirming the truth. Please you can improvise with limestone rock( on the local market it’s called goat salt), eggshells , or dried and milled cow bone, fish meal and some vegetables like spinach. Thanks for reaching out
@@k.t.samuel thank you for the response. I wonder what's the local name for Limestone here in Nigeria. In any case, I've taken note of all you've mentioned. Thanks once again.
Thanks for the info KT, my research from different sources stated that the Achatina Achatina lays about 80 eggs per each laying season which is every two or three months which is 1200 to 1600 per year. So is your 400/500 eggs per year or at go? Thanks
Hi Madam Djokoto, Your research findings were wrong. Speak to any knowledgeable snails farmer or extend your reading. They lay way more eggs. The numbers provided is per laying and not per year. In my video I showed an evidence.
I'm a beginner, 2-3 months and started the farm with 65 snails, 58AA and 7AM...but the AM has stared laying a lot of eggs but the AA are not laying....they're growing too
Whether that lay or not will depend on a number of factors like: Their age Where you got the stock from If they are comfortable If they are in aestivation Or they had laid before your bought them. Etc.
I know what you’re driving at, but it’s fine. If I wanted to keep all 400,000 snails, I’ll put a minimum of 500 HATCHLINGS in one pen. Meaning you’ll need 800 pens for that. Good thing, we don’t need to wait for all those snails to be over a year old to be sold. That being said, if I still want to house them, 10 pens roughly costs 5000 cedis. Hence total will be around 400,000 cedis. No do similar maths for greenhouse that still kills snails, 400,000 snails divided by 2000 per house. Means you’ll need 200 greenhouses. 200 multiplied by average of 50,000 cedis is 10,000,000 cedis.
And like I always say, even if the housing cost a billion dollars but gives the best yield, then why not. But that that's not the situation. Alot of people who have terribly failed with the net housing are reaching out to me trying to tell their story to the rest of the world. My questions posed to the net housers are daring and the truth. You'll have to be charmed to not understand the reality I've explained.
With 7ft + distance between the pen and roof, there will be enough breeze. It’s not hot for the snails. Also remember the soil is irrigated to keep the humidity high
Well good you found me, wooden structures will rot when they come into contact with water. If you line it with black plastic bag, it will generate heat in the pen which is unhealthy for the snails. My next video might be on that whole idea of soilless pens. I do not know why people are coming up with weird ideas. Please farm them in the soil. They need it.
Greetings.pls I am a Nigerian. I don't understand why my AA snails hardly survive.i am really interested in dat specie but they hardly come out from d ground to eat or move abt.after some time they will die.pls I need solution.thanks
Sorry to hear. It simply means they are uncomfortable. It’s could be a couple of things. Very little mulch Bad soil Acidic soil High temperatures Etc. please check these things
Which bad sides of trench housing system? It’s designed to be very secured. The limitations come into play when you don’t follow the guidelines. For example, I’ve seen people doing trench without cementing the beneath. That makes the whole design flawed. It’s a also labour intensive and time consuming to manage but it’s returns pays off the debt. If you’ve done mango farming before, you’d know unlink other crops, you have to treat your mango trees like babies and that’s why it has a high profitability rate. I’ve seen trench houses without trenches/gutter around it. Again, that flaws the design. I’ve also seen people doing trench without treating the soil. That spoils the whole idea. I hope I answered you
