Feeding for your snail

24.07.2017

Feeding your snail is really important because if you get your snail something that is dangerous for your snail ... he could die!

Safe snail food

  • Apples
  • Apricot
  • Avocado
  • Banana
  • Black Berry
  • Butternut squash
  • Cabbage
  • Cucumber
  • Dragon fruit
  • Grapes
  • Kiwi
  • Mango
  • Melon
  • Mushrooms
  • Nectarines
  • orange
  • papaya
  • prickly pear
  • peach
  • pear
  • plum
  • raspberry
  • strawberry
  • tomato
  • lettuce
  • broccoli
  • tomato plant leaves
  • green beans
  • lettuce
  • peas
  • Wild berries
  • sprouts
  • sweet corn
  • sweet potato
  • turnip
  • watercress
  • dandelion leaves [make sure you get them somewhere far from the road, vehicle fumes may make your snail sick, or kill it.]
  • sunflower seeds [crushed and soaked]
  • pumpkin seeds
  • oats
  • chicken scratch/mash
  • crushed and soaked snail shells give the snail calcium [which they need to have a strong shell]
  • raw eggs
  • brown bread
  • milk powder
  • some raw meat that is cut into small pieces

Not safe food

  • Foods that have been treated with pesticides or contaminated by vehicle fumes
  • Salt
  • Millet and Pasta [Causes bloating through internal blockages]
  • Avoid starchy food

Calcium strength

Most all of these items must be crushed into a fine powder and soaked

  • Shells from dead snails
  • Calcium powder
  • Powdered oyster shells
  • Natural chalk
  • Natural limestone
  • Egg shells
  • Bone meal
  • Wood ash
  • Cuttle Bone
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