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Post by prowljazz on Aug 5, 2011 19:49:24 GMT
What are Your Thoughts on Them as a Foodstuff?
Thanks
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foghog
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Post by foghog on Aug 5, 2011 19:54:40 GMT
perfectly fine and yummy to them, and cheap since they grow like weeds. make sure of course they are not sprayed like with everything else.
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bugz2go
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Post by bugz2go on Aug 5, 2011 20:24:40 GMT
Dandelion leaves are an excellent food for snails. You can gather the seeds and sow in pots/trays to keep a good supply of fresh leaves. Never collect them from the roadside though, only from your own garden to guarantee a clean chemical free supply. Paul www.bugz2go.com |
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Post by Robert Nordsieck on Aug 5, 2011 21:13:42 GMT
Same here, I kept Roman snails and banded snails on an almost exclusive diet of dandelion and other leaves for some time (because I wanted to keep them close to nature). If you take them from outside, you will certainly have to wash them before you give them to your snails...
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Post by crossless on Aug 5, 2011 22:49:43 GMT
I read from somewhere that in old times.. People dig up roots in spring or in autumn and washed & peeled roots and made porridge or give nutrional add to bread dough.  My wc snails and a. fulicas use to love flowers and leaves. |
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foghog
Achatina immaculata
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Post by foghog on Aug 5, 2011 22:58:58 GMT
dandelion is still ate by humans today. I eat it all the time in salads.. the leaves though not the roots. the snails will only eat it to the stalk also.
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Post by prowljazz on Aug 6, 2011 6:25:43 GMT
Thanks Guys....
So I can give Them the flowers as well as leaves? And I an deffantly thinking of Growing Them in a pot as I live in a Flat....
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Post by crossless on Aug 17, 2011 3:48:10 GMT
Yes you can. After feeding flower poopoo can be kinda bright so easy to notice if they have eaten them. LoL.  |
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Post by SojMad on Aug 17, 2011 4:15:23 GMT
Dandelion leaves are extremely popular by all my snails, they love them - and I've also heard that they contain a pretty good amount of calcium too, so it's perfect snail food.  |
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