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ABSTRACT
The experiment was conducted to examine the growth and laying success of African giant land snail using varied housing units in the domestication unit of Department of Forest Resources and Wildlife Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Benin, Benin City. The objective is to determine the weight gain, shell length, shell width and the best housing unit. A total of thirty (30) juvenile snails were randomly assigned three (3) treatments with 10 ten snails per pen in a completely randomized design. The treatments were large concrete pen, small concrete pen and the open wild net pens. The feeding trials lasted for 14 weeks. The results revealed that there is a significant difference (p<0.05) among the treatments in all parameters measured. Increases in body weight, shell length, shell width, aperture diameter and laying success were recorded with the highest and most successful recorded in the large concrete pen. It was recommended that snails be reared in a large space with enough ventilation and be fed the right diets.
