Hypothetical feeding question- skeetos killed with propane

[WoodlandWoman]

We had a Mosquito Magnet and it didn't work very well at all. It was one of the early models and I think it was just a lemon. We tried replacing a part, but it still just didn't work very well. A couple of people on the forum have gotten newer models and say they work great. I see them for sale on Craigslist sometimes. I always wonder if it's one of the ones that didn't work very well.

Our zappers that use UV work great for us. Almost all the mosquitoes are attracted to it. Usually it's just one species we get in July that isn't attracted to the light. This July, we have two different ones that aren't attracted to it. What a pain! It's starting to pick up again, though, so I think we may be switching over to a different species. We have something like 53 different species here. Some are different sizes and colors. Some fly faster. Some hurt more when they bite you or itch more afterward. I suspect that different species breed more in different weather conditions, which is why we notice different species in different times of the year. Some even breed in grass. All these flooded fields are the problem this year, though. Ugh! It's really a bad year!

 

[TyrannosaurusChix]

i dont have one YET, i really want one though. i live right next to a field and i have backwoods that line state land, and on the other side a swamp.

LOTS of them. if you go outside before 7 or after 5 its a mess.

The logic behind these is that they attract mosquitos. attract enough FEMALE skeets and you can literally collapse a colony. but they only work so far.. different models supposedly do larger areas( im having a hard time wrapping my mind around that.. maybe it makes more c02?)

 

[PunkinPeep]

I don't know about the machine, but if you're looking for a way to get double use out of the mosquitoes, i would compost them.

 

[TyrannosaurusChix]

IM so happy i might just SCREAM!!!

after all this talk about the mosquito machine, i walked into a builders warehous elooking for a remnant of linoleum.. and lo and behold.. their last nosquito propane vacuum thingy..

final clearance $59!!!! these cost HUNDREDS and does an acre( i officially own only 1.2 but the problem is coming from a small part of my land and surrounding land.



its missing stakes but i dont think i need them, bait( which i didnt want to use right away)... i hope it works. the warranty is for 2 yrs, ( it didnt come with box though) so if something IS rong, i have my receipt dated TODAY!

 

[OsoAzul]

this is a realy good question!! it got me realy thinking. my first reaction was yes feed them. but then i sat for a bit at looked at it from all angles. on the one hand you could argue as long as they havnt been dead for days on end then whats the harm, co2 is used to attract them but that exspelled by the body fairly quick and besides in a body system its converted straight away by any form of moisture into carbonic acid. but the trap sounds similar to traps they are trialing in scotland for for the horrendous gnats they have, and from what i seen you get huge quantitys of them in the trap.
and its the number that would concern me. mosquietoes are a desease vector, yes chickens grab them out the air and eat them but i doubt a chicken eats more than a few dozen in a day even a hundread and its unlikely they will have contact with enough desease organisms to cause a problem, but we are probaly talking thousands in a fairly short time as a meal, if you do the stats on this and take the mean average of desease organisms that a squeito carrys then stasticaly the chance of something going wrong and a chicken getting enough of a desease organism in its system becomes high.... but its realy one of those

"my grandad smoked 100 cigs a day from the age of 6 and lived untill he was 107 and only died because he was hit by a bus! (probaly crossing the roads to get cigs!) "

so personaly i would be ok with chcikens catching them and eating them but i would be reluctant to feed them in any quantity purely because of the stastical chance of desease through micro organisms they carry

Diseases tend to be transmitted by injection into the blood stream - not ingestion where digestive acids and enzymes would probably make short work of a bio hazard in a mozzy.
Next - those traps pull them in in bulk - trap them and dessicates them. So little to no moisture. Another nail in the coffin for a pathogen.
It also means they corpses dont rot. I think its pretty much the cleanest way to feed a chicken cheap protein and fibre. And lets be clear about chickens - they eat anything! A live rat crossing a hen house has little chance of reaching the other side. Ticks, beetles and fresh moist mozzies from the air - even other chickens - but never a disease from the chicken or their eggs. Feed away and do us all a favour!

 

[OsoAzul]

Diseases tend to be transmitted by injection into the blood stream - not ingestion where digestive acids and enzymes would probably make short work of a bio hazard in a mozzy.
Next - those traps pull them in in bulk - trap them and dessicates them. So little to no moisture. Another nail in the coffin for a pathogen.
It also means they corpses dont rot. I think its pretty much the cleanest way to feed a chicken cheap protein and fibre. And lets be clear about chickens - they eat anything! A live rat crossing a hen house has little chance of reaching the other side. Ticks, beetles and fresh moist mozzies from the air - even other chickens - but never a disease from the chicken or their eggs. Feed away and do us all a favour!

Got me looking at the double use question - then I found this article https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...kQFnoECA4QAw&usg=AOvVaw2dxX1BRtnOeD15KpgYDbMN

So at some point we can use the dead mosquitoes to make the fuel used to make dead mosquitoes... just the thought makes me happy - I hate the little so and so's!