Soldier Fly Larvae as a cheap food source for chickens

[Elwar]

I was just reading this site and it was saying that with 100 pounds of table scraps you can get about 1 pound of larvae to feed your chickens per day.

Looks pretty interesting. I usually don't have many scraps though. I wonder if those little things would eat pine shavings.

http://catawbacoops.com/soldier-fly-larvae-as-a-cheap-food-source-for-chickens.html

 

[Noobchick]

They do, but not as quickly as they go through table scraps. They LOVE watermelon rinds- i put the rinds leftover from a large watermelon in the bin they're in. By the end of the day, the rinds were eaten through to paper thinness. Awesome buggies.