1 March certainly feels like the first day of Spring on the snail farm. We're keeping our fingers crossed for the first batches of eggs to be laid this coming weekend. On Saturday we started setting up the enclosures in the barn so the babies will be able to go into their new home at the end of April. As soon as it is warm enough they will be living outside this year. For the first time we’ll try out the rearing method used in Northern France and Belgium. Keeping birds and rodents away will probably be the biggest challenge but we’re looking forward to reducing our human labour input. Meanwhile we're relying on our workforce to put lots of labour into laying.
