Help! Snail Attack!

[Haz]

Help! My Giant African Snail Eggs have hatched and I am left with loads of cute babies that are growing up fast. I live in the west midlands area and i am willing to sell them for rock-bottom prices. They are well looked after and healthy.

[Airehead]

I suggest that you eat them. Following are quotes from other sources:

This species has been nominated as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species! However, they are useful as they are harvested for food.

This species has been introduced by humans all over the world. It breeds rapidly, carries a number of parasites harmful to humans, out-competes native species of snails and reaches such large numbers that other predatory species of snail, such as Euglandina rosea, have been disastrously introduced in some areas to control them

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Haz

Help! My Giant African Snail Eggs have hatched and I am left with loads of cute babies that are growing up fast. I live in the west midlands area and i am willing to sell them for rock-bottom prices. They are well looked after and healthy.

so what were you doing with a load of african snail eggs anyway - did it not occur to you that they would hatch ?

[Gill Catton]

hmmmm tricky... There was someone on here a while back looking to own one of these - try a forum search on here perhaps you'll get lucky!!
Presumably this will be a continuous problem though unless you can separate the adults? I'll bet there's pet related forums that cover this sort of thing and can offer better advice on egg control. Try a goodle groups search or something maybe?

Good luck in solving youe dilemma!! Just whatever you do don't release them into the wild and pass such advice on along with any snail you can rehome!

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by eeyore

so what were you doing with a load of african snail eggs anyway - did it not occur to you that they would hatch ?

sorry haz , I've had a bit of a bad day , I didnt mean to snap at you honest Welcome to WAB by the way.

this might be helpful - someone on there might be able to suggest a market for the other than aireheads landsnail ommelette.

edit : oh yeah the link - doh http://www.geocities.com/heartland/valley/6210/

[Dan Salter]

I suggest a hot pan....a knob of butter....some white wine....crushed garlic and simmer until they stop screaming.......mmmm...delicious !

Bonsiour.

[Persephone]

Snails garliced (garlicked?) up to the...errr...stalks are actually quite tasty. The problem lies in getting over what you're eating!

[Dan Salter]

had them in france lots ( mum has a house there) ...delicious...so are frogs legs i have to admit.

[Persephone]

Yeah, I tend to eat them most in France (part French). It doesn't seem the same when in a different country.

What area is your mum's house in? I'm mostly acquainted with the West half rather than the East.

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

I can think of a lot nicer things to eat than snails to be fair the garlic part of it sounds worse than the actual snail to me, but then i am northern and we eat proper food up ere

[colinaj]

If you eat Common Garden snails feedthem on lettuce for two weeks the fry in garlic butter.
Very Tasty indeed!

[Dan Salter]

She has a house in Thouars....its between bordeaux and toulouse....near Agen? erm...Egion?....its on the river garonne as rick stein went past it on his boat doing the french thingy

[Persephone]

If you mean Agen, then that's in the Lot et Garonne region near Toulouse like you said but Thouars isn't.

Thouars is further North than that unless there's a tiny hamlet called Thouars that you mean. The town Thouars is in the Poitou-Charente region.


I'm confused? Unless you mean a hamlet called Thouars rather than the big town.

[Dan Salter]

yes its a tiny hamlet....you mean tours ( i mean thouars) and yes its exactly where you said on the garonne its like 10-15 houses max right on the rivers edge

[Dan Salter]

The town we use is buzet? but i think we go to agen for the train and stuff. or egioun ( cant spell it) eg we on

[Airehead]

Originally Posted by Lincs Yellowbelly

i am northern and we eat proper food up ere

Like stew & hards, or pease pudding.

[Persephone]

Ahh the hamlet thing explains it then. But no, I don't mean Tours...Thouars is a town on Thouet, a tributary of the Loire.

It's nice around there (where her house is)...I bet she has some wonderful holidays.

[Dan Salter]

sure is

[Haz]

thanks for the advice! I might not be eating them anytime soon! anyway, if any of you hear of anyone wanting a snail, could you give me a buzz. The snails seem to be taking over the house! they keep escaping!