DIY Maggot Bucket: Efficient Chicken Protein Source
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Join us as we explore the world of maggot buckets and how they provide supplementary protein for chickens free of cost. Follow along as we show you the step-by-step process of setting up a new bucket and the modifications that can make it more effective. Subscribe to our channel for more innovative waste management solutions!
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A couple of tips to keep the smell down. Don't put holes in the side of your bucket. When you're carcass is fully infested put some dry leaves or lawn clippings on top. Just like a composting toilet. It's not perfect but it helps a lot. I put crumpled chicken wire on the bottom to help stop the holes from blocking.
Smart dude. Thanks for posting.
You betcha! 🙂
Best tip on the Internet today, you used everything:)
Right on thank you! 😊
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I loved the idea of soldier flies for fast composting anything and providing food for chicken when I first saw it, but discovered that they can't breed in the cool west of the UK where I live. So I thought, maybe use dead things for regular fly maggots. This shows a good way of doing it. I would also add, that you could do the same for feeding wild birds during the breeding season when they could do with a little extra help feeding little ones.
BSF would be another great option I have never tried to farm them. Seems like alot of work I don't know 🤷♂️ The main drawback to the maggot bucket is the smell which can be quite off putting. Good luck and thanks for your comment:)
When I get chickens I WzILL be using this method!
I recently learned about this. I have buckets ready to fill with scraps, and meat. I also hope to do black flies larvae.
All of which are useful options. Black soldier flies are definitely a less stinky option! 😉
What a great video, very well presented indeed. Cheers from Scotland…
Thank you 😊
I'm digging this concept of augmenting our chicken's protein, and we have more than enough of fed well pigeons, yeeting a couple a week would "keep the wheels on the bus..."
But I am not keen on attracting more flies to back yard. I'm going to try making one that traps the flies that come in. I am thinking of using a heat gun, to soften the lid, use a dowel to press, funnel like depressions, cool the plastic in that shape, then snip off end to allow entry and deter exits..... Thoughts? I will also add a wire mesh under the yeeted, to allow the squirmiest out, but the fliers get stuck. Just ideas. Hopefully by end of week I'll be able to give it a shot. Also might try adding a layer of charcoal under the yeeted- might cut down on smell- but the charcoal may "store" microbes, like biochar.
I like it! You will have to let me know how it works. Way to expand on the idea! 👌
I don't know why we humans are so freaked out about decays. Decay is part of the cycle of life.
I was just thinking of this yesterday! right on time :) Thanks.
Just another tool in the toolbox! 😉
great idea, I have considered but I am in the city . the city take care of our road kills but if 8 lose an animal that I usually raise for meat I just compost them or bury them close to new plants
This is definitely not neighborhood friendly but you cannot go wrong with composting. 👌
My question is, would the chickens get the same nutrition from directly eating the roadkill? This is not to be a smart mouth but is something I am wondering. I know that sometimes meat will develop a few maggots in the coup before they have eaten all the meat.
I am not certain if the nutrition from directly eating meat would be more or less. There is a good chance that the chickens would avoid eating it altogether and the consumption of the carcass would not be anywhere close to complete. I don't think feed chickens dead things that are rotting is a good idea and I would advise anyone against it. Thanks for the question.
@@therealprtrhsenteal Thank you for your thoughtful response. I have fed chickens meat scraps but never whole animals.
Mercy yeah I can imagine it smells a little bit. lol I rarely have any meat to put in my bugs but there's so many larva in the large bin it doesn't last long enough to get to the smelly part. Chicken poo and coffee makes up the bulk of what they eat. The circle of life brother.... :)
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Thanks so much! Glad you liked the video. 😉
When you slaugther rabbits or ducks or something, could you put the intestines in the bucket?
Yeah for sure. In fact there would be nothing left in the bucket at the end. 👌
Is TH-cam so hassling you saying that this is harmful content?
Lol. Most of my content is age restricted or not advertiser friendly. Wouldn't have it any other way! 🙂
Is it possible to pass along “botulism”?
I suppose that is possible but in my experience I have not seen any incidence of illness by exposing chickens to this source of protein.
I have a lot of dog poop. Won't that work?
Maybe 🤷♂️ But would you really want to feed your chickens maggots borne from dog shit? I'm gonna pass. 👌
Very ingenious, kinda gross from a girls perspective,but, the maggots are full of protein...
Not gonna lie it is gross but the chickens are highly interested:)