Selecting Stock and Daily Operation of Snail breeding

The management in the extensive snail farming(Snail breeding) in free-range pens is well reduced as the snails only follow their natural life cycle and Interference from the snail farmer is restricted to the daily removal of any dead snails, refilling watering troughs, and also making sure that the moisture in the pen is constant even during dry season, and occasionally harvesting mature snails for sale.

But in semi-intensive or intensive snail farming you will have to be managing the snails during the successive stages of their life cycle such as egg laying, hatching, growing and maturity. Management activities proceed in tune with the snails' life cycle, which in turn follows the seasons with their periods of snail activity.

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Constructing a snailery

The system you will use for your snail farming is dependent on a lot of factors such as type and size of your snailery and on the quantity of snails you intend to produce. When talking about housing for your snail, your snail farm could either be extensive, semi-intensive, or intensive, all this three types have different financial implications.

 The Extensive system is known as the outdoor and free-range snail pens while the Intensive is when your use a closed systems, for example plastic tunnel houses, greenhouses and buildings with controlled climate for your snail farm. The third type is called semi-intensive system which is a mixture of both intensive and extensive in this type egg laying and hatching occur in a controlled environment just like the intensive while the young snails are then removed after 6-8 weeks to outside pens for growing or fattening or both.

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