Best way to USE Japanese beetles

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  • Problems with oriental or Japanese beetles? Turn them into animal feed! Great way of supplementing your chicken feed so you can be more self-sufficient.
    Amazon links for the beetle traps
    Trap 1: amzn.to/3bNLZ7c
    Trap 2: amzn.to/3yL9ln8

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  • @sandysmith9764
    @sandysmith9764 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I had so many I froze them in freezer bags and had them all winter long to feed them. I called them green popsicle’s for the chickens 😂

    • @katepaynedechavez
      @katepaynedechavez ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That is disgustingly, amazingly clever. Love it!!! 🎉

    • @Coolkid-1342
      @Coolkid-1342 ปีที่แล้ว

      NICE🎉

    • @donnavorce8856
      @donnavorce8856 ปีที่แล้ว

      Awesome idea. Thanks. I'll do that next spring. Cheers

    • @ddaniel469
      @ddaniel469 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You get an A++ for being a great chicken mom!

    • @JenBLibertyImages
      @JenBLibertyImages หลายเดือนก่อน

      Brilliant. Guess I'm about to fill a freezer bag with these little evil garden destroyers!

  • @aerthman
    @aerthman ปีที่แล้ว +8

    First time I sat my trap out the bag was totally full by days end. I feed mine to the catfish “pond chickens” AND the nasty bag comes mostly clean with a hose and nozzle spraying in a fan pattern.
    I like your idea of a smoothie rather than throwing them on the ground. 👍🏼

  • @angel8fingers
    @angel8fingers ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Does anybody else just want to hang out with this guy?
    Am I right or am I right?

  • @ericlawrence9060
    @ericlawrence9060 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    We get those beetles here in WI like CRAZY they eat nearly everything. We don't have chickens so we just knock them off into a large bucket and let them drown then bury them for fertilizer. I hate those bugs.

  • @barnmetal3495
    @barnmetal3495 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    My first year hens where snatching them out of mid air. Just hang the trap without the bag about 3-4 foot off the ground and the chickens take it from there, you don't have to touch anything all summer long. My birds on a hot summer day would dirt fluff in the shade under the bate trap and eat bugs all day.

    • @JeffGray
      @JeffGray  ปีที่แล้ว +12

      For me the chickens are pretty far away from the places the Japanese beetles are munching on leaves (orchard, garden, etc.). So I have to trap in one location and transport them to where the chickens are.

    • @donnavorce8856
      @donnavorce8856 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gotta love this networking. It's awesome. Thanks for sharing your experience and idea.

  • @UncagedFighter
    @UncagedFighter ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This channel is pure gold. Subbed.

  • @lunabeta3516
    @lunabeta3516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    🤯That's alot of beetles. What a great idea. Thanks

  • @universaluniverse8780
    @universaluniverse8780 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    What if you hung it inside your chicken coup, unzipped the bottom but had it hanging over a bucket of water so as they fall in, they eventually fall into the bucket of water and the chickens just go have a snack when they feel hungry?

    • @donnavorce8856
      @donnavorce8856 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Damn great idea. Love it.

    • @jpage1331
      @jpage1331 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was my thoughts???

  • @ivyz2741
    @ivyz2741 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    love your style! And simple
    solutions!

  • @akzorz9197
    @akzorz9197 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have not laughed this hard at a garden video.. ever. Ty

  • @kelcritcarroll
    @kelcritcarroll ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wild turkeys have been eating the tops of my bean plants because they have japanese beetles on them I discovered

  • @kristinwood5191
    @kristinwood5191 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m so glad I found your channel!

  • @mehmetalitukenmez6471
    @mehmetalitukenmez6471 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I loved your video brother. Keep creating more

  • @mindofmadness5593
    @mindofmadness5593 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Starting my gardens on new property. My issue may be Stink Bugs. Moved here last Sept, saw the SB's and starting to see them now [[including the one I set my plate of Easter Ham on, well smelled it then saw what remianed.]]

  • @brianhoppersr.3671
    @brianhoppersr.3671 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bobbing fpr beetles!

  • @thorn9862
    @thorn9862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bobbing for beetles😝

  • @cisco5400
    @cisco5400 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great idea, perhaps having the trap on top of bucket with water where the chickens are and have the botton un zipped. So all beetles go through the bag and directly land in the bucket. Then you dont need to move them?

  • @kelcritcarroll
    @kelcritcarroll ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That is awesome about the chickens because most birds dont seem to eat them

  • @lynnkhosla6277
    @lynnkhosla6277 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Now I have a compelling reason to get chickens!

  • @AngelaHepp
    @AngelaHepp หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fantastic video!! Subscribed! One question... Always thinking sustainability, and when Amazon and big box stores eventually disappear... How long does the attractant last? And is there anything else that can be used as attractant when we can no longer buy it? 🤔

  • @lionelbanin
    @lionelbanin ปีที่แล้ว

    You truly are a genius!

  • @KristyLeeVlogs
    @KristyLeeVlogs ปีที่แล้ว

    Another awesome idea!

  • @jasminequinones8521
    @jasminequinones8521 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant idea!

  • @gilflannigan3910
    @gilflannigan3910 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My grandfather Moe, rest his beautiful soul loved to feed these beetles to his chickens.
    He passed away a few years back on his farm property out south.
    We all loved him anw were very close so it was a hard time for the whole Lester family 💔
    He always trapped them in plastic bags and used milk jugs to have them fly into and fall in.
    One time i remember he harvested what must have been 20 thousand of those beetles. So many that his 30 chickens took more than a day to eat them. Smelt really really bad.
    Moe. r. Lester. Or as we just called him, Moe.
    rest in peace🙏❤❤❤

  • @baldieman64
    @baldieman64 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why not replace the bag with a pipe leading directly to the chickens?
    No need to empty the bag. No need to deal with re-sealing it.

    • @JeffGray
      @JeffGray  ปีที่แล้ว

      That would be assuming the chickens and the beetles are in the same location. However, the chickens are out in the pasture free ranging and the beetles are up near the gardens and orchard.

  • @ddaniel469
    @ddaniel469 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Idk why this video made me so happy but it does 😁

  • @JoRoBoYo
    @JoRoBoYo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    cute chickens

  • @MichaelB1488
    @MichaelB1488 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Did anyone ever tell you that you are a bit like Michael Ironside?

  • @FRWHELAN
    @FRWHELAN ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What do you do with the remaining....beetlejuice?

    • @JeffGray
      @JeffGray  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pour it into the chickens’ water. 😉

  • @Pleurigloss
    @Pleurigloss 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Aw please come back to YT. Where are yoooouuu?

  • @donnafoster2022
    @donnafoster2022 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Chicken sushi!

  • @threeowls369
    @threeowls369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How old do your chickens have to be to eat them? FYI love 💕 your sound effects.

  • @carolecoyote960
    @carolecoyote960 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤❤❤

  • @AJayK610-18
    @AJayK610-18 ปีที่แล้ว

    What about your worm short video?? Were they maggots? I thought i could find it, but nope

  • @lunabeta3516
    @lunabeta3516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is there really a difference btwn a beetle trap and a fly trap? (Bags)

    • @50dbo
      @50dbo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Big difference, different bait, different entrance to the trap

    • @lunabeta3516
      @lunabeta3516 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@50dbo ah thank you

  • @howardoller443
    @howardoller443 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These little stinkers attack my grapevines, but most of them pay with their lives.

  • @sappir26
    @sappir26 ปีที่แล้ว

    Guineas will take care of all you Beatles if you raise them on your property. As long as you don't have neighbors close by, and you don't mind their noise, they can also be great watch dogs.

  • @RonGay58
    @RonGay58 ปีที่แล้ว

    Six of one, half a dozen of the other

  • @katepaynedechavez
    @katepaynedechavez ปีที่แล้ว

    Gratuitous beard scratching 😂

  • @sharriceowens913
    @sharriceowens913 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ur awesome

  • @ichooselife1916
    @ichooselife1916 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    More content!

  • @randallweaver3587
    @randallweaver3587 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I filled 13 of those bags during 2022! My chickens wouldn’t eat them!

    • @albowrx
      @albowrx ปีที่แล้ว +1

      did you feed right away to them? if you leave them until the bags get full chances are that theyre dead and smelly therefore them not eating them. Depending how fast they fill, I'd feed more often.

    • @JeffGray
      @JeffGray  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @tubatuba Exactly. If they start to rot then chickens won’t eat them. Fresh and crawly is the way they like them.

  • @transwomenaresexistmen
    @transwomenaresexistmen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love animals and I love chickens but once I learned they love those beetles, I decided to get some chickens. Their run will be underneath the grape and Virginia creeper vines EAT THEM UP YUM

  • @nicholaspaz
    @nicholaspaz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you heard of Dimethylformamide?

    • @24mbronc
      @24mbronc ปีที่แล้ว

      Why did u mention this? Just curious

  • @allenwilson5235
    @allenwilson5235 ปีที่แล้ว

    My eggs tasted like ribeye.

  • @kelcritcarroll
    @kelcritcarroll ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would empty it every two days as they avoid the bags yesif they really smell like their DEAD brethren

  • @lunabeta3516
    @lunabeta3516 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    😅Nice opening. 🤮🤣

  • @raymondadrian5178
    @raymondadrian5178 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your intro got me wondering

  • @novampires223
    @novampires223 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ewww, glad to be where they are not.. snails are bad enough..

  • @thorn9862
    @thorn9862 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Disgusting, but good to know.

  • @StaceyGriffin-nn7cq
    @StaceyGriffin-nn7cq ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I toss the daily drowned beetles into the grass and my flock will eat them like that. No traps, just brushing into the jar of water with a bit of dawn.

    • @50dbo
      @50dbo ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You feed them beetles covered in dawn ?