CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to raise maggots to feed chickens? What are the benefits of raising chickens with maggots?

How to raise maggots to feed chickens? What are the benefits of raising chickens with maggots?

Fly maggots are a type of high-protein larvae. Feeding them to chickens can increase their protein content, make them grow faster, and increase their egg production rate. Since chickens themselves like to eat insects, feeding maggots to chickens is a good idea.

How to raise maggots to feed chickens?

The culture medium for fly maggot cultivation can be made from livestock and poultry manure, wine lees, saccharin, bean curd residue, and butchery scraps. The water content of the culture medium is 65%-0%, and the pH value is 6.5-7. Pour 35-40 kg of culture medium into each square meter of the breeding pond, with a thickness of 4-5 cm. Inoculate 200,000-250,000 fly eggs per square meter of Dongsen Rock, weighing 20-25 grams. When inoculating, the fly eggs can be evenly spread on the surface of the material.

Keep the culture room dark and the culture medium temperature at 25℃-35℃. After a few days of culture, the culture medium temperature drops and the volume shrinks. At this time, fresh feed should be added according to the number and growth of fly maggots. Fly maggots are a kind of high-protein larvae. Feeding chickens can increase the protein content of chickens, make chickens grow faster, and increase egg production, because chickens like to eat insects.

How to feed fly maggots to chicks?

Feed chicks with fly maggots. Fresh maggots are added from 0 to 6 weeks of age, with each chicken fed 4 grams of maggots per day, 8 grams from 7 to 12 weeks of age, and 10 grams after 13 weeks of age. The crude protein content of the basal diet for the above three stages is 19%, 15%, and 16%, respectively. The experiment shows that feeding chickens with fresh maggots during the growth stage can make the chickens gain 0.75 kg more weight for every 1 kg of fresh maggots fed, and the chickens start laying eggs 28 days earlier than the control group. The total egg production and average egg weight are significantly higher than those of the control group.

Feed laying hens with 10% fly maggots and 10% fish meal respectively, with the same basic diet. The egg production rate of chickens fed with fly maggots is 20.3% higher than that of chickens fed with fish meal, the feed return is increased by 15.8%, and the feed cost is reduced by 31.2%. Fresh maggots are directly sprinkled into the trough or on the ground, and fed twice a day. When producing fly maggots, there is a small amount of fly maggots in the residual material after each batch of feed is finished, and the residual material and maggots can be fed together.

Examples of the benefits of raising chickens with fly maggots:

Zhang, a professional chicken farmer in Xinzhou District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, has been conducting experiments on feeding maggots to laying hens since 1987, with remarkable results. The test subjects were 120 22-week-old Ross laying hens, randomly divided into two groups with the same basic diet. Each chicken in the experimental group was fed 10 grams of fresh maggots every day. The entire experiment lasted 125 days, including 15 days of pre-feeding (observation, adjustment, and deworming of the entire flock), and 110 days of formal experiment. A total of 66 kg of fresh maggots were fed at a cost of 18 yuan. The chickens in the experimental group laid 396 more eggs than the control group, worth 100 yuan, with an input-output ratio of 1:5.5, and significant economic benefits.

According to a test conducted at a chicken farm in Baoshan District, Shanghai, two groups of chickens were fed with 10% fly maggots and 10% fish meal, respectively, with the same basic diet. The fly maggots fed were lured with chicken manure to lay eggs and hatched naturally. Fresh maggots were picked up and rinsed with clean water, poured into the feeding trough of laying hens, and fed twice a day with live bait. The test results showed that the egg production rate of the chickens in the test group was 20.3% higher than that of the control group (the group fed with fish meal), the feed reward increased by 15.8%, the feed cost decreased by 31.2%, and the average sales income per kilogram of eggs increased by 45.4%.

Note:

Never feed dead maggots after using insecticides to prevent young birds from being poisoned. Fresh maggots should also be rinsed and fed on the same day to prevent them from spoiling and causing poisoning. After feeding maggots to ducks, do not let them go into the water at will. They should be allowed to fully digest and fresh, fishy-smelling white feces can be seen on the ground before letting them go into the water. Otherwise, it is easy to cause indigestion.

The dry maggot powder in the chick feed should be added in proportion. Too low will have a bad effect, too high will cause waste, and even cause digestive tract diseases in roosters. If ducklings and chicks eat too much and have indigestion, they can take dry yeast (0.1-0.2% of the feed amount) or drink soda water, cooking oil, etc. to help digestion and eliminate food accumulation.