Making Snail Mix?

[zoe6660]

i wanted to know if i can make like a snail mix from what i got in the house i got hot oats but its not hot lol i got the sunflower seeds i got cuttlefish and i got wheatbix, flaked almonds lol i got other seeds in my hamster and rabbit food and my friends got chickens i could get some them seeds they the small light things lol will any of this be good and how should i do it?

[zoe6660]

or could i mix wheatbix and oats with a bit of milk and feed them it cold or should i warm it up and leave it to cool down.

[lippy]

I suggest you read the other topics, come on everybody try and help once in a while!

[zoe6660]

i have done wheatbix and oats with warm water waited till it cooled and i dont think my snails liked it lol they had a little bit, but i have chopped up small bits of different types of food and my snails love cooked beef tiny bits i give them and they got in they little dish cucmber, turnip,carrot,apple,banana,mushroom. i think thats it so ill see tonight what they love the most.

[Buse]

lippy said:

come on everybody try and help once in a while!

RUUUUUUUUDE ... ;D


I Would Help But I Have No Idea How To Make It Sorry Zoe6660

[zippi]

I made some snail mix from chicken food, rabbit food (supa), oat, calcium and sunflower seeds. Just put those in a mixer.
I think you can use basicly any seeds, flakes and dog/bird/rabbit food. Don't forget to put some calcium in it too

[zoe6660]

okay thank you ill try it.

[saxon]

Don't put milk in it I think milk can cause a digestive problem!!!!!

[Paul]

I've never personally heard of milk causing digestion problems in snails. I often see slugs eating the milk from the top of milk bottles so I don't think it would do harm in small quantities. However, I don't think I'd bother using it. It's not really similar to anything they would ever come across in the wild in any great quantity that I can think of, so saxon may be right, it may have the potential to cause problems.

[zoe6660]

i tryed my normal gals with a bit of milk mixed in and they love it and i used warm water for the tiger and 2 babys they havnt ate none i think. my gals are still alive lol

[Cornelius]

I just use ready-brek, a bit of weatabix, mashed up banana, scraped carrot and scraped sweet potato, scraped cuttlefish add hot water. Mix up, leave to stand for a few minutes, add a small amount of beer and cold water. Mix well and give it to the snails, they wuff it down ..especially the margies

[zippi]

My fulica doesn't eat anything else but cucumber and apple He doesn't like the mix I made for him, just runs over it.
Hope my fulica babies that come next week aren't so picky!

[Carolyne]

I can formulated three differents dried mixes for snails:

One (Mix for adult not breeder snails and old snails):[/b]

-Dried food for omnivore rodents (For example hamsters).
-Rabbit food.
-Wheat flour.
-Dried milk.
-Calcium bicarbonate.

Preparation: Mash all elements (Until obtaining a homogenous dust) so that it wheat flour occupies 2/3 of a cup, the other part with the other food (Rabbit food, hamster food, dried milk and calcium bicarbonate).


Two (Mix for malacophagus snails, for example Rumina decollata, Oxychilius alliarius and other species):

-Dried food for turtles (Pellet or Gammarus).
-Fish food (Flakes).
-Dried food for dogs or cats.
-Wheat flour.
-Calcium bicarbonate.

Preparation: Mash all elements (Until obtaining a homogenous dust) so that it wheat flour occupies 1/2 of a cup, the other half with the other food (Turtle food, fish food, dog/cat food and calcium bicarbonate).


Three (Mix for breed, old, babies and adult not-breed snails):

-Dried food for omnivore rodents (For example hamsters).
-Rabbit food.
-Fish food (Flakes).
-Turtle food (Pellet).
-Wheat flour.
-Calcium bicarbonate.

Preparation: Mash all elements (Until obtaining a homogenous dust) so that it wheat flour mix with calcium bicarbonate occupies 2/3 of a cup, the other 1/3 with the other food (Turtle food, fish food, rabbit food and dried food for omnivore rodents).

-These mixes for snails give me excellent results (Specially mix One). Regards.

[zoe6660]

thanks for all the replys
all my snails love the wet dog bisucts and im still finding out what else they like. but they eatting alot more.

[Carolyne]

Is better to give dog biscuits each 3-4 days if it are herbivore landsnails (Because in these landsnails the excess of animal proteines can ends at a growth disease).