Maggot Farming!! Please answer :)

[zeeshanisrar]

hello dear all
i want to grow maggot for my chickensh
any body who is doing this can guide me how to do maggot farming
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hanks

 

[nguyenkinhphuc2]

That is disgusting and unsafe.

The 'juices' will contain millions of harmful bacteria that will make you birds sick eventually, and could even make you sick from eating the eggs or getting bacteria on your hands handling stuff in the coop.

You can not feed maggots as a SUBSTITUTE to the feed - they should only be fed as a SUPPLEMENT.

Also maggots need cleaning before feeding to the birds.

I used to feed maggots to my exotic birds but I would always put them in trays with flour and shavings for 24 hours to empty their guts and clan their bodies first.

You are asking for major problems feeding you birds like that - its got be be easier and less disgusting to feed them meal worms.

How about maggots from chicken poop?

 

[geedub]

Black soldier fly larvae and other maggots have been shown to reduce harmful bacteria like e. coli and salmonella. Wild animals eat maggots all of the time. I'm sure some do get sick, but I also think we tend to exaggerate the risk because of our bias against fly larvae.


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manure at 7.0 log cfu/g. Approximately 125 black soldier ßy larvae were placed in manure inoculated

and homogenized with E. coli. Manure inoculated with E. coli but without black soldier ßy larvae
served as the control. For the Þrst experiment, larvae were introduced into 50, 75, 100, or 125 g
sterilized dairy manure inoculated and homogenized withE. coli and stored 72 h at 27C. Black soldier
ßy larvae signiÞcantly reducedE. colicounts in all treatments.

http://forensicentomology.tamu.edu/pdf/final version.pdf

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[bowen012]

No statistical input either way, but curious about the reproduction rate of maggots? I have a small tank set up (recently) of meal worms and I agree that the process is relatively slow (most of the worms are finally beetles after a month or two maybe?). I may have meal worm larvae in there somewhere, I've not dug around to see really and just waiting to see worms again whenever they emerge (if ever). Admittedly, this is my first batch of meal worms and more of an experiment for my 5 year old bug enthusiast than actual production facility (we only started with about 50-100 meal worms). I know that in the same amount of time, my hissing cockroach population dramatically increases.

In an established colony under controlled temperatures and feeding, the amount of hissing roaches one can get is amazing really. They grow fast to boot, so in the same amount of time that the meal worms took to transform from worm to beetle with no visible offspring; I've passively added over 100 hissing cockroaches. They bear young about every 60 days (around 30-60 or so per female). From my colony, when I actively control feeding and temperatures, I can easily get a yield of a few thousand every 60 days (from current breeders, obviously with cultivating a massive breeding push, the numbers are limitless). I think the maggot set-up is disgusting and can't envision ever using it, but curious on the math of it and how much yield one gets from the method?

 

[galanie]

Waiting for the worms to turn into beetles, lay eggs, then the worms to get big enough to see is sort of long when you get started. The warmer their environment the faster they'll grow and mature. They say 80 is best but someone here put them in an incubator and they just went crazy growing. Once you get them going though, wow. And just the easiest thing to raise ever.