Monday 4th December 2017<\/em><\/p>\n ************<\/p>\n This post features photos of 2 different sized batches of snails put up for sale in a popular Ikeja-Lagos side street market.<\/p>\n The bigger ones (see below) sell for N2, 000.0 for a set of 4. In other words, one goes for about N500.0<\/em><\/p>\n The smaller ones (see further down) sell for N250.0 for a set of 4. In other words, one goes for about N60.0<\/p>\n In a past article on this blog, I shared photos of snails being reared\u00a0by my 8 year old daughter in her backyard snailery.<\/p>\n This was something she started a simply hobby, but over time we've gradually begun to turn it into a formal - though still pilot -scale operation.<\/p>\n Especially as we excitedly discovered that the new feed we were giving the snails seemed to result6 in regular eggs lying.<\/p>\n One main challenge with handling the eggs and baby snails is that we are still struggling to get the hang of it.<\/p>\n As a result, I estimate that we end up losing up to 50% of the egg batches we collect. In most cases we get about 15 to 30 eggs laid in a batch. So, you can do the math to determine how many snails we end up with as babies from each batch.<\/p>\n Feeding these babies has also been something we've not really been able to formally address.<\/p>\n For the most part we've sprinkled the same powdery feed for the adults in the nursery section, and left them to roam around. We've found that they generally are able to eat the same food the adults eat, but the smaller sizes of course.<\/p>\n It\u2019s really tiny \u2013 but if you look carefully at the vertical glass side of the nursery to the right, you will eventually see it climbing slowly up... We have many of them now.<\/p>\n![\"Tayo](\"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/uploads\/pii-banner.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nNow we have a formulated ration we feed them and we have also set up a nursery where we hatch baby snails <\/strong><\/h3>\n
Below:\u00a0 A short video we recorded of one of her newly hatched baby snails in the nursery we've setup<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h3>\n