Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[JShubin]

 

[Texicano]

I used to breed totes of those things, by the thousands... 

Last years chicks got into totes by accident and ate them all. 

Hahaha bet those were the happiest chicks. How did you breed them?

 

[Texicano]

PROTEIN CENTRAL NICE

 

[JShubin]

Any tips? First time getting them. Been reading about the importance of protein during moulting so i picked these up.

you have super worms... about 2x - 3x bigger than meal worms...

 

[JShubin]

Hahaha bet those were the happiest chicks. How did you breed them?

leave the larve (what you have) in a bed of shavings/bran... with some carrots/potato slices... leave for a few weeks and they'll cocoon into pupae, then they will turn into beetles.. which lay eggs and start the cycle over again...

it can be a pain in the butt sorting beetles from the larve/pupae/eggs. I ended up with totes of all 4 stages in them, and just picked out the larva as needed to feed. Kind of messy if you dont stay on top of it.

 

[Texicano]

you have super worms... about 2x - 3x bigger than meal worms...

The bigger the better?

 

[JShubin]

The bigger the better?

except the smallest chicks may not be able to eat them... but probably yeah, more protein haha

 

[Texicano]

leave the larve (what you have) in a bed of shavings/bran... with some carrots/potato slices... leave for a few weeks and they'll cocoon into pupae, then they will turn into beetles.. which lay eggs and start the cycle over again...

it can be a pain in the butt sorting beetles from the larve/pupae/eggs. I ended up with totes of all 4 stages in them, and just picked out the larva as needed to feed. Kind of messy if you dont stay on top of it.

Thanks man, I'm going to see if there are any larvae in the containers.

 

[JShubin]

you have larva (worms) already... they will cocoon in a few weeks.. and then turn into beetles in another couple weeks.

 

[centrarchid]

They can handle the bigger stuff. The chases and battles are a mechanism for dismembering larger prey. At two days old, chicks can overpower and dismember even large female Chinese Mantids, even when hen cannot help them out. That is when the chicks betray their raptor ancestry.