Escargot Passion
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Excessive gathering, pollution, intensive agriculture have largely contributed to rarefaction of edible snails in the wild, here in France, and in many Countries.
Thus, there were new attempts of breeding our two main species: the Burgundy snail (Helix pomatia) and the Petit-Gris (Helix aspersa).
Today farming techniques exist and we can say that domestication of Petit-Gris is approached (not yet Burgundy).
But an important project is now to aim: creating some races which are both well adapted for breeding and better for Consumers.
I have bred snail in an experimental way for years...
I have selected and crossed Petit-Gris since 1985 and I think I have obtained that will be perhaps one of the first snail breeding races; I call it Blond des Flandres
All you want to know is here, except economic point of view :
a page about my experimental strain
a page with references and best sites on the subject which is completed now with all the links we can find on the WWW
a WebBoard about snail breeding
and a guestbook !!!
WebBoard : snail breeding
a beautiful specimen of Helix Pomatia (the Burgundy)...
...but the Petit-Gris (Helix aspersa) is better for rearing
and the strain "Blond des Flandres" of this species is really so beautiful... isn't it ?
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published : 98-03-01 ; last updated : 10-01-15 |
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