Heliciculture

Edible snail (Helix aspersa)

Heliciculture

A guide to the practice of farming and raising snails.

Table of Contents

• History
• General Information
• Economic Impact
• Morphology
• List of Edible Snails
• Mating and Egg Laying
• Growth
• Farming Snails
• Pens and Enclosures
• Cannibalism by Hatchlings
• Gathering Snails
• Feeding
• Diseases and Pests
• Population and Density
• Shipping Snails
• Turning Snails into Escargot
• Restrictions and Regulations in the United States

Original sources

• Rebecca Thompson and Sheldon Cheney Raising Snails "National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture."
• Source of this article in Russian
• Source of this article in Italian

External links

• Man and Mollusc's Data Base of Edible Molluscs
• Snail Farming in Africa
• Breeding and Growing Snails Commercially in Australia