Heliciculture

Snail farming in the UK

The best snail farming links

I am an Editor for the Science/Agriculture/Animals/Snails section of the Open Directory Project. Rather than repeat all the links here, please follow the link above. I keep the listing there as up to date as this site and I add new ones whenever they are submitted to the Directory or I come across one myself. Please let me know if you find any that aren't included!

This site has got such a good advertising banner, I am listing it separately! It's an organisation representing approximately 100 farms in the territory of Serbia and Montenegro. Arranges advice,lectures, farm visits and supply of snail breeding equipment.

The rest of the links below are more snippets of information rather than complete sites in their own right and hence aren't included in the ODP listing.

Other sites

Cool Climate Farms, snail farm venture in Orange, Australia involving Sonya Begg, author of Farming Edible Snails-Lessons from Italy.

Start your own snail farm, repeats a lot of the information in Raising Snails and adds some doomongering about snail farmers not passing on their secrets and cheap imports from Eastern Europe supplying most of the French market.

BioImages Virtual Field Guide - photographs of UK snails to aid identification. Not really about snail farming and so not included in ODP collection.

All you need to know about snails. French site about snails but this section in English. Barely more than notes.

Snippets

Page on the SAC Farm Diversification website (Scottish). Not suitable for ODP because it is deeplinked and only one page, but informative nevertheless.

According to this snippet it is not Halal to eat snails.

I am indebted to a chap who e-mailed me from Prince Edward island with this concise list of facts.

Snail ASCI art!

Snippet about effectiveness of copper as a snail deterrent.

How extraordinary, Czech Local Authorities are banning snail hunting in order to protect their wild populations. Not so unusual I guess when you consider there is a £9.00 equivalent fine per snail in France for collecting from the wild before midsummer in order to protect breeding stocks. I wish I could find the web page where I read that in my early days of surfing on this subject.