Do they need snail mix?

[billrichardson]

Hi,
A feed used by professional snail farmers comes from Berton at www.bertonalimentationanimale.fr/index.htm - they will send sacks through the post but they're 25g - although they are relatively cheap at around 10 euro per bag. They produce different varieties - its worth a look.

Bill

[billrichardson]

Make that 25 kg sacks!!

Sorry

Bill

[spook]

Hi,
Please forgive me if I'm being slightly ignorant,but do my GALS need snail mix? I was never told to feed them it when i acquired them. and if they do need it can i make it myself?

[Tigs]

I give all my snails a treat of snail mix. I dont know if the "need" it but the extra vitamins etc certainly cant do them any harm.

I make mine up - Busy bee today but there are various posts with idea on what to include

Tigs

[spook]

Cheers for that then Tigs!
But still having a little trouble sourcing a recipe for snail mix

maybe I'm looking in the wrong place!?

[mickysnail]

You can buy snail mix from The snail trail ebay shop. mickysnail

[danikat]

I don't think they need it. I only started feeding it to mine about a month ago - the Snail Trail variety, and I'm pretty sure their parents live entirely on fruit, veg and occasional bits of meat and brown bread.

You'll still need to feed them other stuff as well but I like to give them the snail mix just to make sure they're getting all the vitamins and things they need, and because they really seem to like it.

[Paul]

My mix which was adopted by invertsupplies when they were trading is:

40% Hemp
15% Calcium (Crushed Oyster Shell/Cuttlefish Bone)
15% Oats
10% Chicken Mash
10% Sunflower Kernels
10% Pumpkin Seed

Obviously I change it around a little.

[spook]

Marvellous! Cheers for the recipe Paul
And Thanks everyone else for your advice! you're all really helpful on this forum, i love it!!

[apple]

Cool

[kirgem2007]

sorry to sound thick but how do you work out the percentages? also whats chicken mash *confused* lol

[Paul]

I'm assuming you mean how do the percentages translate to real amounts rather than how I decided on the percentages...

A way to measure it is as follows:

4 cups/spoons Hemp
1.5 cups/spoons Calcium
1.5. cups/spoons Oats
1 cup/spoon Chicken Mash
1 cup/spoon Sunflower Kernels
1 cup/spoon Pumpkin Seed

or to make 1 kg at a time:

400g Hemp
150g Calcium
150g Oats
100g Chicken Mash
100g Sunflower Kernels
100g Pumpkin Seed

The percentages are just relative to each other. So if you only wanted 1 cups worth,

4/10ths of a cup of hemp
1½/10ths of a cup of calcium

...and so on.

Chicken mash is a food mix given to chickens. It contains various things but mostly cereals.

[zippi]

Wow, so you can give chicken food to snails?!
I have some (40kg for my button quails).
I'll have to try to make that mix

[zippi]

I made some.
But I just put Chicken food, oat, calcium and sunflower seeds in it.

[gasmaskman]

Is there anything that i can use to replace the hemp? or where can i find hemp in F.L?

[coyote]

You can try in a natural food store, especially if they have bulk bins.

[whitney01]

i think the price for the one sack is good enough.