Free-range (open pasture) snail farming.

The important issue in raising snails for food is how they are produced and the social responsibility to consumers.

Free-range snail farming is where snails roam freely and forage for food in open pastures of living food crops, rather than being densely confined in small enclosures and fed only compound foods.

There is a recommended limit to the number of snails to each square metre of ground space. Some snail producers use the term ‘free-range’ as a marketing tool, rather than as a reflection of the conditions in which snails are kept.

The freedom to roam in large areas allows the snails to avoid each other’s slime trails. Over-slimed ground and excess faeces can modify snail behaviour by putting out chemical signals like pheromones — detrimental to reproduction and growth rates in terrestrial snails.

Allowing snails to breed at their own pace and encouraging the natural biological cycle in an ecological farming system, results in better breeding performance, faster rate of growth, higher reproduction yields and it meets the highest standards of quality and sustainable accountability.

Growing snails in open pastures (or free-range) is sustainable. It’s possible to set goals, apply management strategies, measure progress and produce snails perpetually.

Implementing a breeding program ensures the right genetic base for size and colour. Trials conducted over many years have demonstrated that the colour of the flesh of the snail and the flavour of its meat is not influenced by the food it ingests.

Commercial farming of snails in organic, open pastures of living food produces large numbers of high-quality snails and combines tradition, innovation and science. The free-range system is easily managed and is a cost effective method of breeding and growing snails that are healthy for consumers and, it respects the physiological needs of the snails and the environment in which they grow.

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Free-range snail farming is sustainable
— it has the capacity to last over time.

Free-range (or open pasture) snail farming is the only accepted method of sustainable snail production where high quality, edible snails can be produced continually.

This system is humane, economically viable and environmentally sound.

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Snails are creeping wild African animals with well developed spiral shell cover. They are classified generally as terrestrial gastropod molasses and are popularly known as “Congo Meat” they are forest animals predominantly found in the low-land rain forest region of West Africa: High humidity and Shady canopy are required for the continued existence and biological activities of snails. Snails are found particularly plentiful in the rainy season among damp vegetation and hollows.

In Africa South of the Sahara, India, France and Britain snails “Congo Meat” have become very popular in both urban and rural areas. When the rains are heaviest and the annual floods are very high, snails climb the branches of trees and hide within holes in order to avoid the flooded marshes. In the dry season they also avoid the direct light and heat and creep under leaves or stay in dark and shady places for cover.

The benefits of snail farming are as follow:

As a delicacy, snail meat is popularly accepted all over Nigeria with no religious/tribal reject. Hence it finds a ready market all over the Nation and West African region.

The business of producing, processing, transporting, storing, financing and servicing snail products should give employment to many people.

Rearing of snail for local consumption will decrease importation of frozen fish, chicken and turkey into the country and producing snail for export will greatly enhance the economic potential.

It will firm up the Naira, improve the GDP, reduce both inflation and create more jobs for Nigerians. Over a million jobs can be created in snail industry alone.

Snail farming can be very profitable in Nigeria.

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