Kidney beans?

[picklepies]

Hi all, can snails be fed raw washed kidney beans? X

[Zorst]

If they are dried and raw they aren't good for anything to eat and as hard as rock, so they must be rehydrated first of all, to do this they have to be soaked for 12 hrs and then boiled for a good hour or two until soft.

If they are boiled without any salt, seasoning or stock added to the water I cant see any problem trying one with your snails. I'm Canadian First Nations (Same as Native American but from Canada) so we tend to use beans as a big part of our diet.

You can if you have the garden space or enough room for a big flower pot or two, grow the dried beans that you get from a health food shop for eating. Just soak them over night and plant them in a pot full of earth. I do this with all my dried beans and grow fresh one's every year.

The Pinto, Anasazi, Trail of tears n Navajo runner beans I planted 2 weeks ago are now nearly 2 inches high and are just about to open there 2nd set of leaves. The beans when they grow and produce bean pods of there own can be eaten as a green bean or left on the plant until they are dried. I often feed these green beans to our snails here. They love them as much as we do, depending on the bean they may be a bit tough so may need to be cooked first but all the same the snails eat them just fine.

I personally wouldn't feed any Beans that you get out a tin to snails as these Beans are cooked in and then canned in salt water. So even washing the bean off they will still contain salt inside them from when they were cooked.

Hope that's of some help

Zorst

[GrandTouringShell]

My snails love the leaves of kidney bean plants. Like how the weather is getting warmer, I might consider growing some for them.

[picklepies]

Thanks know you for the very detailed reply! They were canned beans so I shan't risk it, but when I'm back with a garden it'll be nice to see if I can grow some

[jolovessnailies]

I think you have to be careful with them love, I see #m to remember reading somewhere else that bunnies and guinea pigs cannot have them either. I love them in a chilli but it has made me wonder how bad they are for us lol!!

Hugs
Jo xx

[Zorst]

Ahh your ok Jo, cooked there perfectly fine for you to eat and good for you so you can enjoy you chilli with them in. just some animals can't handle certain foods.

Take a deer or a pig for example they can happily eat raw acorns, but these poison other animals if eaten raw . And we can only use them once they have been processed and broken down as a food source or in a coffee form.

Yes the snails love my fresh young bean plants also lol.

Zorst

[jolovessnailies]

Thank you Zorst hunni, I do love chilli. It is amazing how some animals can eat somethings and others would be poisoned if they ate them. I have just tried mine with Broccoli and they are singularly unimpressed lol!

Hugs
JO xx