Rice with weevil bugs - Good protein source?

[Guille]

So I found a bag of rice completely infested with rice weevils. Stated picking up several of them, put them in a plate and served them to my quails. They absolutely went nuts and finished them in matter of minutes.

Has anyone else done this? I now feel tempted to always keep an aitight container with rice left to go bad with weevils and have my own little “weevil farm”.

 

[Guille]

so... no one? am I in unchartered territory here?

 

[Nabiki]

I don't think it will do the birds any harm. Bugs are part of their natural diet, so I'd say go for it. Just make sure they don't eat the rice because it swells when wet, such as inside their crops and stomachs.

 

[Chip76]

Sorry, I've never seen a weevil. We have mostly just crickets and scorpions around here... The quail enjoy the crickets, but I try to keep the scorpions away. I don't think they could survive a scorpion sting. It terrified me when there was one in the kitchen with Pedro. I am very glad she didn't see it.

 

[Guille]

They are little beetle-like insects that feed on grains - so its a pest infecting rice and others (if you have a bag of rice and let it sit for months, it will probably grow some).

Thing is, they attacked a complete bag of my paella rice, so I took like 30-40 of the little bastards, put them on a plate and enjoyed vengeance as my 3 quails feasted on them. I now have put the rice with weevil in a separate container, starting my own "weevil farm", and was wondering if this was a bad idea in the forum.

 

[RainbowHen]

They are little beetle-like insects that feed on grains - so its a pest infecting rice and others (if you have a bag of rice and let it sit for months, it will probably grow some).

Thing is, they attacked a complete bag of my paella rice, so I took like 30-40 of the little bastards, put them on a plate and enjoyed vengeance as my 3 quails feasted on them. I now have put the rice with weevil in a separate container, starting my own "weevil farm", and was wondering if this was a bad idea in the forum.

Sounds like a great idea to me! Basically a mealworm farm on a smaller level. Best of luck!