Building the ULTIMATE MAGGOT FEEDER for My Back Yard Fish Pond!
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- I will show you how to build a fairly simple, but amazing maggot feeder that helps feed backyard pond fish! My Gear (Shop and Support): www.thewoodedb....
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I will show you how to make maggots at home using only very simple tools like a drill, saw, some wood, rope, wire, and some rotting meat. I wasn't sure if our trophy hatchery rainbow trout pond fish from Lyndon would love maggots or not, but the results are surprising!
Maggot Life Cycle
The life cycle of a fly begins when a female lays an egg on a food medium like rotting meat. A female fly can lay up to 150 eggs at a time. Over a period of a few days, the female can make 5-6 batches of eggs. Eggs are deposited in compost, manure and other decomposing organic material. Eggs resemble very small grains of rice.
After 23 hours, the eggs hatch into the first larvae stage known as a maggot. These are legless white insects. They are basically worms with a mouth piece. All they do is crawl around eating voraciously. During the maggot stage, they will molt several times, once at 27 hours and 22 hours, and finally into a pupae at 130 hours.
After feeding, the maggot will find a place to pupate or cocoon into a brown hard shell. This protects the inactive fly. Over the course of three to six days (143 hours), the pupae develop legs and wings, ultimately emerging as full-grown house flies. Within two to three days, female house flies are capable of completing the life cycle and depositing eggs or mating with a female.
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You should keep a breeder pig
WHAT TO HECK KINDA FLY GOING TO DELVOPE FROM THAT THING.🤯😮
Repurposing a clothes line would be 100% more efficient. In your defense you where part of the way there with the gondola rope. But a clothes line would be 100% more efficient, you can push, or pull the box where needed without needing to pull a rope from side to side manually!!!
My next concern is the water quality... you have rotting meat and fluids leaking into the water with nothing to really clean the water source I'm concerned the pound will become a cesspool. I mean there is a real threat of waste contamination from decaying, rotting animals and insects continually dropping for only 4 fish. There is no way that 4 fish are cleaning that water source. Possibly adding catfish or carp that are filter fish bottom feeders would help with future upkeep?
Never thought I would be looking at a “maggot feeder” on TH-cam but here I am and it was pretty sick
Full Stop. And my wife said not to do this ever again, the chicken run smelled horrible for weeks. LOL
You lost me when you said your wife said something. She evidently don't cook and clean. It's your fault, weak men.
Use black soldier flies larva
"It rained and the water is chocolate brown..." man what kinda chocolate you eating!? 😂
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i would use a come along for the line across too get better tension and pullies and rope fore the retraction that way you can put more weight on it, as for reducing smells maybe put some gasket around the lid and some acrylic glass that extends to the water on all four sides.
Man awesome!! Trout love maggots in the uk we catch lots on them! Your trout are most likely eating most of them as they fall through the water
You should get a few catfish to compete with the trout on the bottom
If you put it a bit higher up they’d splash more on the surface probably stimulate more surface feeding
In the uk it was a old traditional method to just hang a rabbit high in a tree over the river. Writhing a few days hundreds of fish waiting there very easy to catch. Just two maggots on the hook dropped under the feeder bam every cast!
feel like ive been waiting a year and a half for this video. not a bad little system you got and its all free fish food....definitely way more nutritious than pretty much any feed you could buy too
What a brother Kevin is, he used like $800 in lumber to make that box for you lol. Tell him to make sure and write it off on his taxes.
Good job Yankee
My grandfather told me to hang a rope across the pond with an LED lightbulb hanging from the center and 2 plexiglass baffles. The insects see the light and drop into the water when they fly into the baffles. Also, check out the bojo fish light. I bought one for my father in law.
Smart tactic.
He did it bro he took your advice😂
I was going to suspend a light over a fan to blow the bugs into the water. Your "baffle" idea is much better as it is almost completely passive.
Do they have the lights that come with the stank? You taking all the fun out of it! I mean what are you supposed to do with that huge pile of road kill you been saving up?
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Great idea! Just a suggestion: If you put 2 pulleys on the trees and loop the rope you can just pull any amount of weight easily from one side or the cable with a zipline harness on it. Great for keeping your bait fish healthy i bet.
Full stop! Greetings from across the pond. ;)
Oh PLEASE name the pigs Kevin Bacon and Chris P Bacon!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Haha...i was thinking the exact same names...fits perfect..
That was pretty good footage you did under the gondola. Was wondering what the rotting fish looked like.
If you re-build then two pulleys would of course be great so you can bring it in or out from one spot. You would also eliminate the tube and potential for eventually cutting through the rope.
But, if you only do a minor revision, heat the tube ends up and flare them
Put a bend or a 45° elbow in the middle to eliminate rope scrape
Locking good gondola 😊😊😊😊love from India good udobo Spice
A “bight” would be a quick and reliable way to secure some of those ropes.
Awesome project!
good job my friend thank you for sharing video
Full stop Chris! ❤️ stay safe and be well
Full stop. Good DIY 👍
Good morning brother from Syracuse NY USA
Loved it buddy... my g f freaked out but I'm the fisherman...maybe an old balance ball would reduce weight of box....cut in half and drill holes, could reduce work...
Great idea
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I would have went with 2 pullies, so you can operate from one side.
Close line pulleys, one longer rope and double the strength.
I think you need to add in some minnows it'll be fun to see the trout's going after the minnows as they eat the maggots.
That is a great idea!!! Love the vids man👍👍👍
Great proof of concept! I mentioned in Kevin's channel, when he asked about other projects, to put in a cabled zip line to send materials back and forth to the site. This was when the pathways was super muddy. You basically did exactly that. Gondola/Zip line, same idea. Great video! Full stop
I’m only 16 minutes in . But why not . Make the line that you’re pulling with , 1 big line that loops , and put a pulley with a crank handle on both ends .
So you can just crank it one direction or the other without another person having to help you ?
Sorry just a suggestion . Love the videos !
Damn dude, that's quite the compound you have going there!
I wish people wouldn’t use Cruddy Click bait photos like the photo on this one where he’s holding Hercules beetle larva. That is not even a maggot
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I think you were better off with the bucket, I think that chicken wire is going to let a lot of the fish fall through as it breaks down. The wider dimensions of the box also make it more prone to tipping. Put a PVC pipe on opposite sides and hang it from 2 ropes, this will keep it from tipping, put less stress on the rope, and prevent the thing from falling in the water if one rope fails.
What if you were to use a mash made of grain or corn to attract flies without as offensive of a smell. Meal worms? Not sure what lays eggs for meal worms.
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Hell around here that would be a roadkill buffet fish feeder, i couldnt stand the smell enough to keep the buffet full for them
You should name them Chris P. Bacon & Piggy Smalls 😏
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Fulk stood yo!!!
You should make a trapp to catch the flyes and send them in the water.
The progeny of flies. Somebody should name their band that
the maggot video i’ve been waiting for 😂
I would've done it like a clothesline: a loop secured by pulleys on both trees. Then the box doesn't need to slide on a tube. It could be knotted to the clothes line directly. But this seems to work. There's so much good design presented in this video!
My thoughts as well. It would eliminate the need for that third rope and having two people pull it in the opposite direction. Plus the friction would be insignificant and the rope would last a long time.
BTW, is the maggot feeder still in use?
Full stop. All I’m missing is the pond my wife won’t let me out fish in the pool
Btw if you leave the meat in plastic loosely it will "maggotize" fairly fast, I used to be a pet cemetary grave digger and you be surprised how people drop off their best friends nowadays.
Any problem with bears where you live?
U need to build it so the magots roll off into a space they can lay an dehydrate for future feedings as well as feeding in real time
This is like an IRL Minecraft automation feeder how to tutorial, thanks TH-cam algorithm, 10/10
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Awesome man
I need to do this
Great dry heave 😂
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use a trucker's hitch to easily adjust the line! it also gives ya a pulley advantage
Ngl maggots were pretty interesting
Full stop, these feeders looked awesome‼️‼️
I suggest you put a plate on top of the wire mesh so that the smaller maggots do not fall straight into the water. Leave space all around so that the pre-pupae will fall when they start crawling for dry ground to burrow. That way you will have optimal fat maggots
That would help a bit. I put a cam underwater, and let it run for 2 hours...some pretty good sized ones dropping at a regular rate!
Full stop,glad your doing more maggot work. Been using feeders fourty plus years. Brookies seem to really fatten up for the fall spawn.
If you name the pigs, I recommend naming them after the food item they will be.
FL 30 day survival series? Let me know. Would love to give ya the grand tour.
when tying the rope to the trees, use a chainsaw to cut a notch out of the back of the tree and sit the rope in their so it doesnt drop over time
Damn pond should have been bigger
With tadpoles you are getting ready for frog legs too .
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Lol you're not supposed to name food animals
I see "maggot feeder" in my notifications. I click ASAP.
Probably best not to name animals you intend to eat.
With how the mesh on the bottom is you could use a tarp and completly seal off the top.
Great video as always maggots remind me of rice I can’t do it LOL 😂
If it helps, you could also use a clothesline with the pulleys. Just an other idea. Love your videos!
Definitely replace the rope with cable and pulleys, there is way too much sag in the rope...but great job boys!
Need to put more fish in there
Great video. Full stop!
Maybe do it like the old school clothes line we used to have one from building to building in the city
I wish I had 1 percent of this mans DIY acumen
Go Woodbeard, we're watching all videos all the way through because I think I know how much work is put into delivering this to us. And thank you again! And I also want you to know that I think you and Jeremy make an awesome team.
That’s two inch pipe, run the rope across two or three times, and feed them all through the pipe, you could also a ratchet to tighten the rope and severely minimize sag.
Gonna have some big old frogs too! Frog legs are delicious, go good with trout.
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Really nice grub feeder you have monster grubs there!🐸🍺🤙🔥
I was told that maggots were banned on most trout fisheries in the UK as it isn't sport. They love them THAT much.
That was a great idea so I was wondering I know you only put 4 trout in there but will they breed in that pond ?
I hope Kevin is getting paid for this. You are one demanding man! hehe.
How you doing Kevin?
What are "pegs"?
I had no idea about tying around trees! Then again if I've ever done it it's been temporary so I haven't seen the potential damage that would cause over time.
It's also a good way just make the ropes a little longer so your gondola goes to the bottom and drags the mud and other debris out but you can dig your pond deeper everyday you could pull a scoop through let things settle drag it again and then move your beginning or end area a foot in either direction and do it again old-school dredging
hi Chris, that was pretty smart thing to do!! be safe, thank you, bill
"They're maggots, Michael." Not that you're ever truly a Lost Boy but we did see one of the Frog brothers and Kevin does look a little bit like the head vampire actor, if you squint a bit.
I love listening to Chris ramble on and on. The ingenuity and everything else is just a great bonus.
Thanks for all you do. Good luck with the Canadian government. America isn't all that great either.
I'll be watching your videos no matter what. Also, I'm trying to convince the fiance to let me get some Woodobo.
Would be easier with 2 pulleys and 1 rope.
Full Stop friend. I love the channel and the content. And the family. Great people.
Maybe just use 1 rope to goes in a circle to 2 pulleys. And you can just pull it to you or pull it away by pulling the other rope. Then you can do it from the same spot. Kinda like the old clothes lines that went between buildings in the older days
That thing worked great, of you did upgrade to a cable instead of rope it would hold up alot more stuff, funny how you both had the same idea, hey I'll pull him into the water, that would have been so funny 😂, great video, be safe and have fun
Have you thought about introducing a catfish to your pond? They will clean up the maggots that are sunk to bottom as well as pop up whatever they don’t eat back up
Honestly, these videos are really great to relax to on fridays
Rip future pigs 😪
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All they need are 2 ropes and 2 pulleys.
Hang one suspension rope to hang it from and one rope looped through the 2 pulleys, one on each end, that way you only need to be on one end to pull the basket either way! Their way you need to be on one end to pull it off the water and the other end to pull it over the water!
These types of feeders are better for chickens rather than just 4 trout.
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