Urban Fly Maggot Farm for Chickens
Link to my site: alejandroerickson.com Post production warning: IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO THIS IN THE CITY MAKE A SMALLER VERSION OF IT! IT WILL SMELL ABSOLUTELY VILE WHEN OPENED. (nuff said ^_^) WARNING NUMBER TWO: The site I got this project from reports that some chickens have died from Botulism. This method should be used WITH CAUTION. I make a fly maggot farm as described on www.themodernhomestead.us I use a car shampoo bucket with holes drilled in it. I fill it with carrion and hang the contraption from a tree. Soon I will know if it works! If it doesn’t smell too bad I will be able to bring it to my the chicken house but for the moment the experiment is in my back yard. See our chickens at cluck-cluck-cluck.blogspot.com
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i do this in the local woods where i live for maggots for fishing and it realy does smell…. but effective:) goood vid
i sincerely wish i had made it smaller
. it works though. the meat is being consumed and the maggots come out the bottom. but 2 or 4 litre milk jugs would have been more manageable. new video to be posted soon. thanks for the comment.
Have you heard of the BIOPOD? You can google it I have one and it doesnt smell at all. It produces maggots as well as Black Soldier fly maggots they use the word larva since it sounds better than maggots LOL
Anyway it works and is really cool. I use mine for my chickens as well.
Thanks for the tip
You can make your own BSF breeder/harvister using rubbermaid tubs. Those biopods are expensive.
btw, your neighbors must love you.
that’s great, thanks!
I want to see the next video of this thing doing its thing! i had a dead bird in my garbage that was filled with maggots and i fed them to my chickens! they looooooove maggots!
You should staple some screen in the bottom bucket with the holes in the bottom so the liquid drains out. You may have noticed that alot of juice forms in the plastic bag and may drown the maggots. It may also help with the smell a little ?
Is there some reason why you think maggots would make such a better food source than, say, crickets or earthworms or something else with multiple uses that didn’t stink to high heaven and risk the spread of disease?
For that matter, even buying worms or crickets, as cheap as they are, would seem to make more sense, though to me would seem wholly unnecessary as well. This is an interesting set-up, but I would think it so problematic and time-consuming to be not worth it. Of course, if you just like testing theories and trying out new stuff, I have no argument with you on it. Earthworms or crickets would just make so much more sense, I’d think.
I pretty much agree with you ^_^. This was fun to do but not that useful. Might be good out in the country if you are often hunting or killing pests. I’m still suspicious of the liquid though – it contaminates the soil under the apparatus.
Hang your white bucket over your chickens, without the bottom green container. As the maggots fall to the ground, the chickens would collect them…..
i had about 500 wormies but im about to buy eggs
The trick to raising “clean” maggots, is to never use rotten meat. use rotting fruit instead,such as cantalope, etc. the yield should be the same, without the deadly bacteria associated with rotting meat, and the horribel smell.
@Nebakaaaa yes of course, but the chickens weren’t at my house… and the chicken people were chicken of my experiment ^^
The rubber thingy you made up, totally unnecessary…
Other then that, great video mate!
The smell has to be something out of this world
@ManicMindTrick the rubber was to prevent the tree from scarring when the bucket blows in the wind. it’s also to please my landlord.
nice pets you got! XD
Such a cool idea! You know Chickens also enjoy raw meat in their diet, gross but true.
David