{"id":12881,"date":"2017-10-17T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/?p=12881"},"modified":"2017-10-17T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:38:36","slug":"true-story-8-year-old-girls-backyard-snails-lay-eggs-photosvideo-snail-farming-micro-business-startup-experience-sharing-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/true-story-8-year-old-girls-backyard-snails-lay-eggs-photosvideo-snail-farming-micro-business-startup-experience-sharing-series\/","title":{"rendered":"TRUE STORY: 8 Year Old Girl's Backyard Snails Lay Eggs [Photos\/Video: Snail Farming Micro-Business Startup Experience Sharing Series]"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this morning (Tue 17th Oct 2017), few minutes after opening up her small snail pen housing her 21 snails that have been in her care since August 2017 , my 8 year old daughter rushes to excitedly inform me that she's seen eggs laid by one of them.<\/p>\n

Below:<\/strong> Photo of snails (next to partially buried snail eggs) in my 8 year old daughter\u2019s snail pen this morning - Tuesday 17th October 2017<\/h3>\n

\u00a0\"snail-egg-olu\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

NB:<\/strong> In the update I published last week, I'd noted that after we introduced the high growth ration we prepared in line with a formula prescribed by the Songhai centre, the snails had become much more active and begun mating openly<\/a>. On some days I'd noticed a few snails seemingly digging themselves into the soil - and suspected, from what I'd read, that they were trying to lay eggs. This discovery by my daughter confirmed my suspicions!<\/em><\/p>\n

Later on, while recording a video of her standing next to the pen, I asked her if that was the first time she was seeing eggs laid by the snails.<\/h3>\n

She replied that it was not, and readily noted that they had laid eggs in the first 2 weeks when she first began collectiing them in plastic containers. This was before I realized how serious she was about it, and helped her setup the makeshift pen.<\/p>\n

But at the time, we had no idea what to do with the eggs, so we simply threw them away.<\/p>\n

However, this time around, because I've been doing so much reading up of PDF reports, manuals\/guides and watching videos on snail rearing. I KNOE exactly what to do to create the sutiable hatching conditions for the eggs of our Achatina Marginata (Which I've identified - using markings and features unique to it,as indicated in a guide resource I've obtained0 is the type of snail we're keeping.<\/p>\n

I intend to follow the instructions provided to help her hatch the eggs and nurse them trhough those delicate initial days of life.<\/h3>\n

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Like I've said in my past posts on this topic, my purpose is experience-sharing. I've added other photos of her snails next to their eggs, partially buried in the soil of the pen, with some still feeding on leftover food in the trays provided.<\/p>\n

And there are also 2 video recordings I did today.<\/p>\n

You can get access to all the informative and educative experience sharing resources I publish as I support my daughter to scale up her snailery, towards growing the snails to approximately 0.5kg market weight by end December 2017, using the high growth ration we now use.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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