The best part is the decreasing numbers of the beetles on his property which means his method is suppressing them helping the whole area not just his property
Good first step, more people will have to do this in order to make an impact tho, just one man with a few traps isn't going to reduce their numbers a whole lot. For every one that he caught, dozens more are hatching every day.
@@Nate-bn5kk yes absolutely right, if a lot of people use them they can make an impact. I've binged watched a lot of videos of people using these traps and almost all said they saw a decrease in the numbers of beetles.
@@Curly_Maple I think it makes sense because he disurupts their cycles. If more people around his property used the traps I believe they can make a dent in their numbers and reduce the beetle's impact significantly.
@@Curly_Maple Only around his property tho, the next property over might not notice much of a difference. This feed method will need to be standard practice for the public to effectively make a real difference, not everyone wants their chicken's bug fed.
Hopefully whatever liquid/bait is used in the trap is organic too. Gut-loading is an important concept to bear in mind when feeding the food of your animals.
Man gave his chickens the natural stamp, gets food for them for free and removes pests that'll negatively affect the environment if left unchecked. Can't get any better than that
@@Animezoa1yes, what you feed to your animals will determine the taste of the meat. It's no different for all animals. Even bear meat is never the same, different on each bear, and better when it just eats berries and meat other than just fish and rotting stuff...
I do the SAME thing 👍 I USED to get so upset & frustrated at the horrendous damage these beetles used to cause in my garden every year. They especially like eating fruit trees and flowers… but at my place their favorite meal seems to be the leaves of a grape vine that just popped up on its own a few years ago. The grapes are terrible tasting, so I really don’t care. But the best part is, my chickens absolutely LOVE eating the beetles… So I set some beetle traps upwind from the grape vine and catch more than I can count. I’m able to fill several gallon size ziploc bags every summer and stick them in my extra freezer. Then during winter when no other bugs are around, I begin thawing and feeding the beetles to my chickens- rationing them out over the season 👍
@@godsofourland95not on purpose but chickens remember what they eat. its why if you feed them eggshells for calcium you need to crush them up so they dont look like eggs or else the chickens will start eating their own eggs because the associate eggshells with food
Yes chickens/jungle fowls naturally eat bugs and worms in the wild those eggs are highly nutrtious full of vitamins and minerals and other trace nutrients
This is actually pretty big brain, especially considering that bugs are actually cheap, reliable, and readily available sources of protein too! Mix it with grain and boom, perfect feed imo
I'm from down that way and these damn June bugs are all over the place, so he literally killed two birds with one stone by turning pests into chicken feed. Talk about a win/win!
@@toddburgess5056Yeah I'm glad someone pointed this out! Both are gross but totally different. June bugs are a solid lighter orange color around that size and more rounded, they become dark brown and much bigger. I freaking HATE June bugs 😂
@@infj5196 yes they are beautiful creations of God but men has disturbed the local eco system by introducing foreign species that shouldn't have been there in the first place.
This is great, being able to reduce the amount of a invasive species so native flora and fauna can bounce back, but also giving the chickens a healthy diet, doing great work
This is literally amazing, not only is he just converting to feeding his chicken the beetles, but the beetles are high in protein and more healthy than the commercial feed, these chickens are going to grow strong!
@Freerider93 If you're think their poisoned because of the trap he uses, then you might be wrong as the video says that the traps use pheromones not poison, it also appears to be a live trap.
A big thank you to this guy the more he catches and feeds to his chickens the less of them there are to eat my roses flowers and vegetable garden again thank you keep up the great work
@jeanpierre72 I definitely got Mummy scarab vibes from these Beatles at least they don't eat people. When I saw the trailer for that movie is a little kid I swore I would never watch that movie. I didn't watch it until I was an adult and forgot that I'd promised not to watch it. Plus it has Brandon Fraiser in it, so couldn't be that scary. Meh, I was mostly right but The Beatles are really scary. Universal totally capitalized on that with their ride.
I've used fly traps, but the stink is terrible. The best I found so far is to put a $9 deer bait block in a five gallon bucket. Put it outside for two weeks and let the rain drench it a few times. Then, put the lid on and keep it closed for two weeks. Then, open it up, and you will find thousands of huge grubs eating the bait. My girls love the grubs, and they save me a ton on chicken feed.
Sounds like you're just creating grubs rather than capturing anything worth talking about. Not a horrible choice, and the cover probably decreases the odor. Almost there.
@gackmcshite4724 I agree. The grubs are not maggots because they are too big. They must come from eggs laid in the deer bait. All I know is that block produces thousands and continues to provide grubs for at least 6 months at one scoop of grubs a day. As far as the smell, it's not bad. It smells more like fermentation than rotting things. I tried the fly traps and the girls will stand around the traps eating flies that are attracted. However, the smell the trap gives off is like that of a putrid corpse, and if the girls get into the trap's liquid, they will feast on the drowned flies and wherever they poop it smells like a dead, putrid, body.
I can already tell his eggs will be literally glowing Orange. I always noticed when buying eggs from normal feed-farm compared to organic feed/lots of bugs etc that the Egg-Yolk has just such a bright and deep Orange colour
Same thing, in my country they call it village chickens eggs. These chickens consume much higher amounts of protein and nutrients. Causing a deeper color of the yolk
The people who are screaming those chicken and eggs must taste like beetles, probably also believe ground beef taste like your lawn and forests should be replaced by machines that extract CO2 from the atmosphere.
@@dynamicworlds1 that this low quality AI video should be on TV every day and that farmers should adopt a practice that isn't even sustainable for a 13 acre operation.
Awesome!! With all that healthy protein and minerals in the beetles, those chicken eggs are going to be incredibly healthy! Wich means healthier humans and healthier chicken generations too! I'd love to try some chicken eggs from that farm!
AND the eggs layed by these chickens will contain something like TWICE the nutrients a "normal" egg layed by a grain fed chiken has. Grain is not the natural food of chikens, bugs are.
Not sure where you got that info, but the chickens that we domesticated spent most of their reproductive cycle eating bamboo seeds. Sure, they are omnivores, but to say that they mainly feasted on bugs is ridiculous. Try doing a simple Google search once in a while
@@Bigparr43 Any free range chicken will search for insects, mice, snakes, frogs, snails and any bug that comes across. If presented with the opportunity, it will also feed on seeds, grains and fruit, and if raised near humans, also human food waste. But they're opportunistic feeders, much like seagulls, bears and humans, so if they can ingest calories without spending much energy they'll come running to the chow whenever they get the signal, even if a fistful of cheap grain (domesticated chickens are business chickens, so fodder must be cheap and there's nothing cheaper than grain) not as nurturing as a mouse. Regarding the nutritional content of eggs layed by free range chickens (that are not purposely feed grain) vs. grain fed chickens, the studies have been made and free range wins by twice and even trice the quantities of the same nutrients, which to me confirms that grain is not optimal food for chickens.
Not true. Chickens are omnivors. I free-range my chickens, and they eat a variety of plants as the seasons permit. On my property, that includes: sorghum, wheat, oats, buckwheat, winter pea shoots, rape seed, and fruit that falls from trees in the summer, as well as bugs. They naturally eat a very balanced diet.
I do not grow certain fruit trees on my property because I know that they attract Japanese beetles which eat the leaves and damage the roots of other plants. This is good to know!
I put wood down or an unused garbage can on its side and before I lifted them, I called my chickens over. They loved the earwigs that would hide under those things. The eggs were great. This man is high scale trapping these beetles. Great job!
I’m just impressed that the man has been able to feed John, Paul, George and Ringo to his chickens over and over without any public backlash… unsurprisingly, the number of captured Beatles has decreased over the years, but he’s still managed to continue feed his chickens Beatles, and we should all applaud him for that.
Now if only they didn't breed so damned fast. My mother for at least 40 years have used those same traps and we'd have to change the three bags every few days. Though I'm calling BS on him filling those bags up till they were overflowing like that. They work because you put some water in the bottom and they fall in and drown. Being that full they'd just crawl out and fly off.
They are an invasive pest, hell my mother has been using those same traps for 40 years because they eat damn near anything. They'll destroy roses and crops alike.
I think these beetles are similar to the beetles we call "Christmas beetles" here in South Eastern Australia. They especially love the gum/eucalyptus trees and come out in summer. During winter their larvae live underground, hibernate and emerge as the ground warms up. Researchers are trying to come up with new ways of eradicating them because they have ruined crops and they can be hard to get rid of. Just when you think they are gone, new beetles arrive (like locust plagues).
Perahaps they should award the man for the idea, then pass a bill named after him to import and hand out beetle traps to farms across the states?@@zacharyhenderson2902
-Hows the chicken? -taste like beetle. Seriously, im amazed with this man. Controlling the pest while having a free chicken feeds rich in fresh protein.
Little known fact that this trap attracted the famous Beatle, John Lennon, who then was fed to the chicken. The general population heard another story to avoid embarrassment.
A perfect example of a "Win-Win-Win" situation. Triple Win!!! 😊😊😂😂 Win for the environment, win for the farmers, and most importantly win for the chickens
For those without chickens, two milky spore treatments in my lawn reduced the japanese beetle population the next year very noticeably. Now almost completely wiped out. The spores kill the grubs. Amazing natural deterrent.
@@HeIterSkelterdude was saying "why farm black soldier flies if you can kill off Japanese beetles instead", which to me doesn't have to be an either or.
@@michaelsorensen7567 That's true ive seen people feed those to their animals too, would be smart to do both. Would be nice to only decline the numbers of invasive species though.
I live in the city and I have several pet chickens. The first chicken I got was when Obama was in office and eggs went to five dollars a dozen. I figured one chicken one person that’s good but then you get addicted to chickens and you start buying chicks, turn out to be probably more than you want just cleaning up, poopy little things. But then they grow up the chickens at 4 to 6 months. All different personalities are fascinating to watch, and my chickens know their names and most of them come to their names.
When I was younger we purchased these traps to put next to our peach trees at our farm. They filled in an hour. We ended up modifying one and putting a 5-gallon bucket with a garbage bag under it, and that filled over the next day. Just a massive bucket full of bugs. I wish we had animals to feed with the bugs. Pretty sure we just ended up burning them instead.
It’s not scalable no but I’m sure the chickens don’t mind it they’ll eat anything and they love bugs. It’s probably not all they eat because chickens spend all day foraging (usually for more bugs lol)
Your not wrong. It's to much protein and the beetles are too high in potassium. It's an excellent feed supplement that's high in calcium, we do use beetle meal in our commercial feeds. I think it makes 1% of the supplements in my complete ration. But because it has the same protein value as meat the use has to be limited otherwise chickens develop problems such as fatty liver.
@PerfectCell.475 if the pond is stocked the money is already spent so not sure what you are referring to. This suggestion actually lowers feed costs for multiple animals in the poultry category and it can feed aquatic animals.
@@610Alpha Would fish be able to eat these things though? Chickens have a really hard beak and need the chitin for their eggs, beetles could possibly need processing to be fish feed.
@@alexkt3400 Fish aren't going to be picky eaters so long as you get the ones that do in fact eat insects and aren't bottom feeders or any such like that
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Ok. Sorry, mistake
He has 52,000 m2 × 3.3
So about 42acre
Just 4.2 hectare
Yeah not a big number .... I have leased shed bigger than that .
Google says 1 acre is 4840 yd.² 52,000÷4840=10.7438017 acres.😂
@@dogloverph501yup
About 4 football fields or 1 and half miles
The best part is the decreasing numbers of the beetles on his property which means his method is suppressing them helping the whole area not just his property
Good first step, more people will have to do this in order to make an impact tho, just one man with a few traps isn't going to reduce their numbers a whole lot. For every one that he caught, dozens more are hatching every day.
He said the number he catches has already decreased significantly. (That did surprise me.)
@@Nate-bn5kk yes absolutely right, if a lot of people use them they can make an impact. I've binged watched a lot of videos of people using these traps and almost all said they saw a decrease in the numbers of beetles.
@@Curly_Maple I think it makes sense because he disurupts their cycles. If more people around his property used the traps I believe they can make a dent in their numbers and reduce the beetle's impact significantly.
@@Curly_Maple Only around his property tho, the next property over might not notice much of a difference. This feed method will need to be standard practice for the public to effectively make a real difference, not everyone wants their chicken's bug fed.
Reducing the invasive species and giving livestock organic feed. A win win
Hopefully whatever liquid/bait is used in the trap is organic too.
Gut-loading is an important concept to bear in mind when feeding the food of your animals.
Those eggs gotta taste INCREDIBLE with the diet those chickens have.
What do you think they taste like?
@@scarx9151They will just be healthy becaude bugs are high on proteins etc.
MASSIVE amounts of protein
So much protein
Those chicken breast do be massive
Helping farmers to solve pest problems and finding food free for chickens of his farm.Hats off bro.
Humans should eat the beatles as well
@@SunGodSe🤢🤮
@@SunGodSego eat beatles then
Not only that, the chicken will taste 100 times better too than the grain feed or from the store
How much are the bags?
Not to mention Japanese Beetles are like crack for Chickens.
They go crazy for those Beetles
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Really? Lol
Those must be some delicious chickens...
don't let the crack heads find out
😂😅😀🙂😐😨😰😱
Man gave his chickens the natural stamp, gets food for them for free and removes pests that'll negatively affect the environment if left unchecked. Can't get any better than that
Also the chickens will taste 1000x times better than the store bought ones.
You also forgot that their poop is a natural fertiliser too
@@Fourbeuractually no.
Truly beautiful ❤️
@@Animezoa1yes, what you feed to your animals will determine the taste of the meat. It's no different for all animals. Even bear meat is never the same, different on each bear, and better when it just eats berries and meat other than just fish and rotting stuff...
Price of feed has skyrocketed recently so this is a good and viable alternative. Excellent stuff
Genius, man found easy and cheap way to feed the hungry chickens, is win win situation
And help the environment at the same time. Those little bastards wreak havok on gardens.
Its not if he feed them regularly with that beetles..thier meat will be have bad taste that they get into the insects
@@johnroycarreon6601wtf bro ? That just Protein :))) Natural
I wonder how the chickens taste like? Beetles perhaps?🤷♂️😂😂
@@johnroycarreon6601 source?
I do the SAME thing 👍
I USED to get so upset & frustrated at the horrendous damage these beetles used to cause in my garden every year. They especially like eating fruit trees and flowers…
but at my place their favorite meal seems to be the leaves of a grape vine that just popped up on its own a few years ago. The grapes are terrible tasting, so I really don’t care. But the best part is, my chickens absolutely LOVE eating the beetles…
So I set some beetle traps upwind from the grape vine and catch more than I can count. I’m able to fill several gallon size ziploc bags every summer and stick them in my extra freezer. Then during winter when no other bugs are around, I begin thawing and feeding the beetles to my chickens- rationing them out over the season 👍
Great job!
Smart
Yes they are all over our fruit trees.
And when the apocalypse hits, you have ziploc bags of protein for smoothies or rice topping!!😂🤮
@@Ichabod_Jericho 😄
An added bonus, he trained his chickens to seek out the beetles.
They all do this naturally anyway.
No he did not.
they are chickens thats what they do
@@godsofourland95not on purpose but chickens remember what they eat. its why if you feed them eggshells for calcium you need to crush them up so they dont look like eggs or else the chickens will start eating their own eggs because the associate eggshells with food
They train real quick. Mine ride bucking Billy goats. I have other wonderful stories about the critters on the farm.😂😂😂😂😂😂
He has saved money on feed and helped the environment. I know his chickens have the best eggs.
Yes chickens/jungle fowls naturally eat bugs and worms in the wild those eggs are highly nutrtious full of vitamins and minerals and other trace nutrients
Those natural, bug fed chickens produce eggs with a beautiful orange yolk! I'd love what his farms produce
Probably pretty decent ones. Be better if he gave them greens as well, a pure bug diet is still fairly restrictive by chicken standards.
@@Santisima_Trinidad He probably does
Absolutely!!
This is actually pretty big brain, especially considering that bugs are actually cheap, reliable, and readily available sources of protein too! Mix it with grain and boom, perfect feed imo
I was curious if he’s mixing with grain at all or what else he feeds his chickens…
I'm from down that way and these damn June bugs are all over the place, so he literally killed two birds with one stone by turning pests into chicken feed. Talk about a win/win!
June bugs and Japanese Beatles are two completely different species.
Figuratively*
Fed two birds with one scone is my preferred phrase. Tends to get a grin outta folks. ;p
@@toddburgess5056Yeah I'm glad someone pointed this out! Both are gross but totally different. June bugs are a solid lighter orange color around that size and more rounded, they become dark brown and much bigger. I freaking HATE June bugs 😂
Fed 2 birds with one beetle 😁
Mans is single handling saving his local ecosystem
This is unjust. What about the credit that his army of chickens deserve?
Beautiful creation of God.
Earth has been programmed to be self-sustaining but corporations made us dependant on their expensive crap
@infj5196 idk what you're talking about but when it comes to invasive species the earth needs help fighting back.
@@infj5196 yes they are beautiful creations of God but men has disturbed the local eco system by introducing foreign species that shouldn't have been there in the first place.
@mr.serious4329 you don't know what she's talking about. Your response to her indicates that .
Its a win,win,win situation...
Feeds chickens, saves money, protects the farm.
It's a win for everyone except the beetles lol
And gives people parasites from The meat off his chickens
Better food source too
Also protects the ecosystem 🤍
eat chicken, dont forget
Man that is probably one of the smartest men that thought of his own way to feed his chickens and get rid of pesky bugs you're my hero
This man solved so many problems at once. He gets free food for his chickens, no more pest, and gets quality free fertilizer.
I thought chicken poo is bad for plants. I must have been mistaken.
@@GhilliedWDB you can make fertilizer out of it but it's extremely rich in nitrogen. Some plants like that, some don't.
My chickens and turkeys love these things to the point of chasing them down through the yard to eat them
Chickens will practically eat anything they can but free protein will always get them going hard at it 😂
This is great, being able to reduce the amount of a invasive species so native flora and fauna can bounce back, but also giving the chickens a healthy diet, doing great work
There are no invasive species 😂 except dmb people.
My goodness, I hope he has a forum to share this around the country with other property owners. This is brilliant!
I love seeing farmers win and they also come up with smart ideas that are natural and sustainable.
If I eat his chickens, I’d be eating beatles indirectly, because his chickens 🍗 are just beatles - rearranged
@@dadonweIfarebut the beetles ate eating flowers. Does that mean you're also a flower?
@@iamtruth6056 humans are just rearranged flowers
This is the most interesting TH-cam comment conversation. Lol
The inventiveness and ingenuity of Americans is off the chart fantastic.
Them beetles started catching on🤣 man’s was wiping out generations
Pure genius , protecting the environment and feeds his chickens the best food. He is an agro forestry role model.
Shino from Naruto will be pissed, join Akatsuki and finally say "And now, this world shall know true pain"😂😂😂😂😂
His Chickens are now seek and destroy beetle hunters 😂
yes but only within a few square meters then they stop caring or noticing and do something else... otherwise he'd let them free range hunt them
I have sworn by these traps for 20 years! I wish my neighbors would use them too!
Excellent use!
Any particular reason why your neighbors haven't switched yet? I feel like it's to good of a thing to turn away lol
What is the name and di those attract any beetle? We have colorado beetle here in ireland
Give your neighbors a few for free and see if they like it
Are the beetles covered in any kind of poison from the trap that might be bad for the chickens?
@@philipdove1705 No
The Japanese Beetle was also responsible for a massive amount of damage to the forest in the Utah/Colorado area.
How's the killer bee or japanese hornet situation, heard anything? I heard you have them too -.-
@@broadbandtogod I've not seen or heard anything of substance.
@@alanrobinson4318 Hopefully it will stay that way!
Most hornets died off very quickly since the environment here I vastly different
Let’s deport them!
This needs to become a thing for ALL pests. This would really help a lot of farmers.
Pure organic. Better this way than to use store bought feeds.
You think the beetles aren't munching on pages and trees that have been grown from GMO seeds and treated with RoundUp?
"Are these chickens grass fed?"
"Beetle fed."
"What?"
"What?"
😂
This is literally amazing, not only is he just converting to feeding his chicken the beetles, but the beetles are high in protein and more healthy than the commercial feed, these chickens are going to grow strong!
J̌ust like humans in the near future 😂...!!!
The AI voiceover calling him a "tik toker" had me thinking he was growing weed on his farm. The name, Grassy", just adds to that impression... 😅
Those chicken eggs must be really orange and high protein
Eggs are poisonous too
@Freerider93 If you're think their poisoned because of the trap he uses, then you might be wrong as the video says that the traps use pheromones not poison, it also appears to be a live trap.
@@Freerider93 sorry for ur loss 😭
@@Freerider93????
@@Freerider93go check your mommy's womb, she had one every month
A big thank you to this guy the more he catches and feeds to his chickens the less of them there are to eat my roses flowers and vegetable garden again thank you keep up the great work
You should buy those beetle traps the guy uses.
I think there is a heart fairy on this channel
Lol
Better than beetles 😏
I wondered why the Zelda fairy fountain music started playing when I clicked the video 🎶
Good catch, you really hear it toward the end of the video 🧚♂️
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”
That is a "The Mummy" level of beetles
@jeanpierre72 I definitely got Mummy scarab vibes from these Beatles at least they don't eat people. When I saw the trailer for that movie is a little kid I swore I would never watch that movie. I didn't watch it until I was an adult and forgot that I'd promised not to watch it. Plus it has Brandon Fraiser in it, so couldn't be that scary. Meh, I was mostly right but The Beatles are really scary. Universal totally capitalized on that with their ride.
I've used fly traps, but the stink is terrible. The best I found so far is to put a $9 deer bait block in a five gallon bucket. Put it outside for two weeks and let the rain drench it a few times. Then, put the lid on and keep it closed for two weeks. Then, open it up, and you will find thousands of huge grubs eating the bait. My girls love the grubs, and they save me a ton on chicken feed.
Yout daughters deserve better than grubs.😌
So no smell ?
Are they maggots?
Sounds like you're just creating grubs rather than capturing anything worth talking about. Not a horrible choice, and the cover probably decreases the odor. Almost there.
@gackmcshite4724 I agree. The grubs are not maggots because they are too big. They must come from eggs laid in the deer bait. All I know is that block produces thousands and continues to provide grubs for at least 6 months at one scoop of grubs a day. As far as the smell, it's not bad. It smells more like fermentation than rotting things. I tried the fly traps and the girls will stand around the traps eating flies that are attracted. However, the smell the trap gives off is like that of a putrid corpse, and if the girls get into the trap's liquid, they will feast on the drowned flies and wherever they poop it smells like a dead, putrid, body.
Several bags worth of Beatles a day is insane lmao
Yeah yeah yeah
Welcome to dealing with Japanese Jewel beetles. They breed like flies, and are extremely destructive to the habitats they've invaded
It's okay to leave your beetles in a hot car.
Him and his chickens wiping out those pest 😂
I can already tell his eggs will be literally glowing Orange. I always noticed when buying eggs from normal feed-farm compared to organic feed/lots of bugs etc that the Egg-Yolk has just such a bright and deep Orange colour
I'm guessing that means there are more nutrients in the yolk?
you know you can make orange yolks just by feeding them carrot
Same thing, in my country they call it village chickens eggs. These chickens consume much higher amounts of protein and nutrients. Causing a deeper color of the yolk
@@Empyrean_Enigmayes and they also taste so much better the yolk itself is much richer in flavor
@@MikeY-nh2weWay more nutrients and twice the price usually 🤑
Hey, Old MacDonald what do you feed your chickens ?
Old MacDonald : Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice !!!!
You done messed it All up, He's gonna come out of that little model town now!!! WHAT DID YOU DO???!😂😂❤❤ 🪲
NOOOOOO!! 😂😂😂
Best comment ever😂😂😂
What color is a carrot?
'The number of captured Beatles' oh no, John, we've been caught.
John Lennon?
Currently dead right now - but it’s a comforting thought.👍🏻
Hahaha I was going to comment on the captions too but you said it better
The people who are screaming those chicken and eggs must taste like beetles, probably also believe ground beef taste like your lawn and forests should be replaced by machines that extract CO2 from the atmosphere.
Now this is what I call RESOURCE MANAGEMENT! That the resource is an invasive pest that is being eliminated is pure gold.
Fr
Chickens are so dope.
Eggs are probably the world's best food.
That’s what should be on TV every day, farmers, please adopt
What are you talking about?
adapt
@@zacharyhenderson2902I'm confused what you're confused about.
@@dynamicworlds1 that this low quality AI video should be on TV every day and that farmers should adopt a practice that isn't even sustainable for a 13 acre operation.
Awesome!! With all that healthy protein and minerals in the beetles, those chicken eggs are going to be incredibly healthy! Wich means healthier humans and healthier chicken generations too! I'd love to try some chicken eggs from that farm!
AND the eggs layed by these chickens will contain something like TWICE the nutrients a "normal" egg layed by a grain fed chiken has. Grain is not the natural food of chikens, bugs are.
Not sure where you got that info, but the chickens that we domesticated spent most of their reproductive cycle eating bamboo seeds. Sure, they are omnivores, but to say that they mainly feasted on bugs is ridiculous. Try doing a simple Google search once in a while
@@Bigparr43 Any free range chicken will search for insects, mice, snakes, frogs, snails and any bug that comes across. If presented with the opportunity, it will also feed on seeds, grains and fruit, and if raised near humans, also human food waste. But they're opportunistic feeders, much like seagulls, bears and humans, so if they can ingest calories without spending much energy they'll come running to the chow whenever they get the signal, even if a fistful of cheap grain (domesticated chickens are business chickens, so fodder must be cheap and there's nothing cheaper than grain) not as nurturing as a mouse. Regarding the nutritional content of eggs layed by free range chickens (that are not purposely feed grain) vs. grain fed chickens, the studies have been made and free range wins by twice and even trice the quantities of the same nutrients, which to me confirms that grain is not optimal food for chickens.
Not true. Chickens are omnivors. I free-range my chickens, and they eat a variety of plants as the seasons permit. On my property, that includes: sorghum, wheat, oats, buckwheat, winter pea shoots, rape seed, and fruit that falls from trees in the summer, as well as bugs. They naturally eat a very balanced diet.
So the eggs Are safe to consume..of chickens eat bugs ?
@@missyTL Perfectly safe.
I do not grow certain fruit trees on my property because I know that they attract Japanese beetles which eat the leaves and damage the roots of other plants. This is good to know!
I put wood down or an unused garbage can on its side and before I lifted them, I called my chickens over. They loved the earwigs that would hide under those things. The eggs were great. This man is high scale trapping these beetles. Great job!
Imagine being a farmer and having people refer to you as a tiktoker
I’m just impressed that the man has been able to feed John, Paul, George and Ringo to his chickens over and over without any public backlash… unsurprisingly, the number of captured Beatles has decreased over the years, but he’s still managed to continue feed his chickens Beatles, and we should all applaud him for that.
Imagine😉
He’s quite clever! Pest control and feeding the chickens… Great ways to care for two things at once! 😊
Epic and genius, both eliminating invasive bug populations and properly feeding chickens not on corn
Now if only they didn't breed so damned fast. My mother for at least 40 years have used those same traps and we'd have to change the three bags every few days. Though I'm calling BS on him filling those bags up till they were overflowing like that. They work because you put some water in the bottom and they fall in and drown. Being that full they'd just crawl out and fly off.
Eating their eggs means indirectly eating bugs
Freely you have received, freely give. God bless those who have ears to hear.
They are an invasive pest, hell my mother has been using those same traps for 40 years because they eat damn near anything. They'll destroy roses and crops alike.
Saving on feed, getting rid of pest and feeding your chickens is a win/win/win
AND selling more JB traps while inspiring other chicken moms... win/win!
I think these beetles are similar to the beetles we call "Christmas beetles" here in South Eastern Australia. They especially love the gum/eucalyptus trees and come out in summer. During winter their larvae live underground, hibernate and emerge as the ground warms up.
Researchers are trying to come up with new ways of eradicating them because they have ruined crops and they can be hard to get rid of. Just when you think they are gone, new beetles arrive (like locust plagues).
Chickens are the answer
@@karenwellington8569Poultry in general.
Free range chickens. I tried that but there were too many coyotes and hawks that damn near wiped out my flock.
hes fixing the enviornment and feeding his chickens. Dope
Dept of Agriculture should give him a bonus.
... The department of agriculture doesn't just pay farmers. You know that, right?
@@zacharyhenderson2902 did I say pay? No, pay attention.
Perahaps they should award the man for the idea, then pass a bill named after him to import and hand out beetle traps to farms across the states?@@zacharyhenderson2902
Fellow Hoosier here, i can confirm these dang things are always in my yard my garage and always on my screen porch . Get em chickens
My dad used to sell these traps he had a small feed store in the middle of Town. We also are from Indiana.
free chicken feed with the added benefit of decreasing the population of an invasive pest in your surrounding area ….what a genius honestly
Bud found infinite food supply for his chicken
It's a finite source of food, unless he devotes time to grow a colony of beetle`s himself, eventually the population of beetle`s will suffer deeply
@@brunosoares8063 Excellent, they're invasive lol.
With the colony he can control the population, have infinite amount while overall population of the beetle dwindles
More people should do things like this. Saves money and helps out the area.
-Hows the chicken?
-taste like beetle.
Seriously, im amazed with this man. Controlling the pest while having a free chicken feeds rich in fresh protein.
Little known fact that this trap attracted the famous Beatle, John Lennon, who then was fed to the chicken. The general population heard another story to avoid embarrassment.
A perfect example of a "Win-Win-Win" situation. Triple Win!!! 😊😊😂😂 Win for the environment, win for the farmers, and most importantly win for the chickens
This man is a genius I support him and any farmer willing to go the distance
This short film here deserves an award. Smarter than using pesticide drones to control pests
My man single-handedly eradicating an evasive species 😂😂
What an awesome idea this man had. I don't know anything about farming, but this is so beautiful, truly circle of life
For those without chickens, two milky spore treatments in my lawn reduced the japanese beetle population the next year very noticeably. Now almost completely wiped out. The spores kill the grubs. Amazing natural deterrent.
Do they only kill Japanese beetle grubs or all grubs?
I used it this summer and have noticed my traps are barely even used. It’s amazing
Dude will single handedly get rid of the invasive pest in his area🤣🤣🤣
Give that man a beer, now !!!
Smart for the Farmer+Chickens+Environment=Outstanding 🇨🇦
His chickens are very healthy and their eggs are rich in vitamins and omega fatty acids. Great stuff.
You can also create a soldier fly larva farm, it's pretty easy too and they breakdown organic matter for you making a great mulch.
Idk man, iron farms are much easier to set up, and I don't like the thought of having to install the black soldier fly mod.
Why would you do that if you can eliminate an invasive species instead?
@@gabrieledean8225 What species you thinking? I think soldier flys are just super prevalent so it's a constant food source.
@@HeIterSkelterdude was saying "why farm black soldier flies if you can kill off Japanese beetles instead", which to me doesn't have to be an either or.
@@michaelsorensen7567 That's true ive seen people feed those to their animals too, would be smart to do both. Would be nice to only decline the numbers of invasive species though.
Ingenious, and keeps his chickens free from additives in the feed.
Great job.
Healthiest looking chickens I've ever seen
Had to rewatch this twice cause i coulda sworn he wrote Beatles instead of beetles in the captions and i was right
I lost it at tick toker, like dudes smoking ticks or something 😂
Yeah "pheromones to attract the Beatles" 😂😂😂
😂
Maggot buckets, soldier flies, June beetles and they're grubs plus grasshoppers and grass. A natural diet.
Thinking outside the box 👍👍.
That’s not clever, thats freaking genius!
So farmers having beetle problems should get a few chickens to keep them under control
Who measures farms by the yard 😂
@@ChantelJordan-fm7kxmuch less measure a farm using chickens🤣
I live in the city and I have several pet chickens. The first chicken I got was when Obama was in office and eggs went to five dollars a dozen. I figured one chicken one person that’s good but then you get addicted to chickens and you start buying chicks, turn out to be probably more than you want just cleaning up, poopy little things. But then they grow up the chickens at 4 to 6 months. All different personalities are fascinating to watch, and my chickens know their names and most of them come to their names.
@carolannroberts damn my girlfriend doesn't even come to my name.
This is the definition of one stone kills two bird
These beetles loved my mom's irises to death in the 70s. She had to give up on them
Gardeners revenge!! Now I need chickens!😊
amazing. If you feed the birds expired greens from the supermarket you get orange eggs
When I was younger we purchased these traps to put next to our peach trees at our farm. They filled in an hour. We ended up modifying one and putting a 5-gallon bucket with a garbage bag under it, and that filled over the next day. Just a massive bucket full of bugs.
I wish we had animals to feed with the bugs. Pretty sure we just ended up burning them instead.
Those chicken provably sing really good😅
Haha the government knocks on the door..
“We’re just here to assist you sir!”
🙌😳
That's purely organic food and he's doing it for free for the chickens.
He just used it as an opportunistic feed, when his farm became infested, it's definitely not scalable and his chickens frankly weren't eager either
It’s not scalable no but I’m sure the chickens don’t mind it they’ll eat anything and they love bugs. It’s probably not all they eat because chickens spend all day foraging (usually for more bugs lol)
Have you ever seen a live chicken?
You might want to learn what eager means...
Your not wrong. It's to much protein and the beetles are too high in potassium. It's an excellent feed supplement that's high in calcium, we do use beetle meal in our commercial feeds. I think it makes 1% of the supplements in my complete ration. But because it has the same protein value as meat the use has to be limited otherwise chickens develop problems such as fatty liver.
Chickens naturally eat bugs. What are you on about
That’s great 👍🏼
He can sell the surplus to his neighbors too.
Hope his Food glitch never gets patched
KFC gonna love this man
Sounds like he's wiping out the local population of beetles.
That's... his goal..... Those beetles are invasive.
That’s the idea!
What about when the ones in his area are gone?
@@anonymousperson6462 then he will have to find another method to feed them, but they will never be truly gone.
We'll cross that egg once it's hatched @@anonymousperson6462
He could set it up so that the bugs fall down a pipe into a pan of water.
Same setup but over a pond...feed fish
Brilliant. Feed fish in an aquaponics setup. It could be a minimal input system for pest control, fresh fish, & vegetables
You would need a filter and occasionally actually feeding them food,Fish are pricy if you don't wanna buy a goldfish and shove it in a small bowl
@PerfectCell.475 if the pond is stocked the money is already spent so not sure what you are referring to. This suggestion actually lowers feed costs for multiple animals in the poultry category and it can feed aquatic animals.
@@610Alpha Would fish be able to eat these things though? Chickens have a really hard beak and need the chitin for their eggs, beetles could possibly need processing to be fish feed.
@@alexkt3400 Fish aren't going to be picky eaters so long as you get the ones that do in fact eat insects and aren't bottom feeders or any such like that
Way better than feeding the beetles to us in the long run…👏