freezing grasshoppers

[swamy]

We have a huge crop of grasshoppers and crickets in the tall grass areas of our acreage. Good or bad idea to harvest several hundred and freeze them for a winter snack? Pretty sure we could get 500 or so in a couple of hours.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I don't know much about grasshoppers but that sounds like that would be a good idea.

 

[so lucky]

I froze a bunch of Japanese beetles for my girls. I would think grasshoppers would be even more yummy. And crunchy!

 

[Al Gerhart]

Here is an old farm boy trick. Go out in the morning right at daylight before the dew has cleared and you can just pick them off the weeds. They can't move till they warm up. We used to shove them in glass coke bottles, stopper it up with a wad of grass, and go fishing!

 

[swamy]

LOL. Ok then, these are big old iowa cornfed grasshoppers,

So I think they'll make a great treat....now, time for a recon mission on the kid's butterfly nets.

Thanks Al, never thought to do that...makes a lot of sense.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

"Roundworms are passed from bird to bird by directly ingesting the parasite egg in fecal contaminated feed, water, or litter, or by eating grasshoppers or earthworms carrying the parasite."
from
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/vm015

Just wanted to let you know!

My girls eat earthworms all the time, no stopping it, but wanted you to be informed.

 

[wyododge]

Hmmmm, that is fantastic. Mine are constantly running around after them. They are just about gone now, but I'll have to remember that for next year. Only problem I can see is cleaning the spaghetti sauce off the ceiling when my wife opens the freezer and a bag of hoppers falls out...

Man she is gonna kill me...