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How to raise maggots to feed chickens, the benefits of raising chickens with maggots

The culture medium for fly maggot cultivation can be made from livestock and poultry manure, wine lees, saccharin, bean curd residue, slaughterhouse waste, etc. 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, and inoculate 200,000-250,000 fly eggs per square meter, 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.

Additional information:

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.

1. Why do we use fly maggots to raise chickens?

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.

2. Can chickens be fed only maggots?

No. Fly maggots are indeed a very good chicken feed, but if you want your chickens to grow fast and healthily, simply feeding them maggots will definitely not work.

3. Is it feasible to raise chickens with maggots?

This is feasible, but not all flies can produce maggots to feed chickens. You need to buy flies that are specifically designed to raise maggots. You can also raise earthworms to feed chickens.

4. Related experiments

Zhang Guoqing, 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 kilograms 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 induced to lay eggs with chicken manure, which were naturally hatched. Fresh maggots were collected 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%.

5. How to feed maggots to chicks?

Feed chicks with fly maggots. Feed 4 grams of fresh maggots per chicken per day from 0 to 6 weeks of age, 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 in 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.

6. Examples prove that raising chickens with maggots is very good

Can fly maggots be used as chicken feed?! Li Ming from Dongjingling Village, Dongjingling Township, gave the answer through practice. In the past four months, the nearly 100 cages of flies he raised brought him a net income of more than 7,000 yuan.

Li Ming, a villager in Dongjingling Village, was the largest egg-laying chicken breeder in the village more than 10 years ago. In recent years, due to factors such as market supply and demand, the price of eggs has fluctuated, and the unpredictable price of feed has made Li Ming's income from raising chickens very unstable. Sometimes he can't make much money even after working hard for a year. Should he give up raising egg-laying chickens or find another way? Li Ming chose to find a way to reduce the cost of raising chickens.

At the beginning of this year, Li Ming accidentally learned from CCTV's "Into Science" program that a villager in Hebei Province raised chickens with maggots and achieved good economic benefits. For this reason, he searched for a lot of relevant information on the Internet and went to Hebei for a field investigation. In early April, he brought the purchased fly species home. After more than two months of dedicated research and trial production, he determined the fly maggot chicken farming project and officially put it into production. At present, he has developed nearly 100 cages of fly species, with a net profit of more than 7,000 yuan. At the same time, the fly maggot chicken farming project he introduced has also filled the gap in our city.

7. Methods for breeding fly maggots

During the fly breeding season from May to October every year, the pig manure is dried half-dried to the point where it can be dispersed, and then mixed with some sugarcane residue or bran or sprinkled with some rice washing water, and spread into a flat bed 7-10 cm high and 60-70 cm wide on a cement drying floor or a concrete drying floor. Cover it with straw or tarpaulin 5-6 cm above the bed surface to prevent sun and rain, and make the bed slightly darker. After more than 10 days, fly maggots will appear, that is, lift the cover to let the chickens peck freely. Then cover it as it was. Prepare pig manure once to cultivate fly maggots twice. Pig manure cultivated twice can also be used as fertilizer.

How to feed fish, livestock and poultry with maggots?

The protein content of fly maggots in dry matter is 50% to 6%, and the fat content is 10% to 15%. It has obvious effects in fish, livestock and poultry farming. It is reported that the average weight gain of one-year-old grass carp in one month is 20.9 grams per fish, which is 25.1% higher than the weight gain of 16.7 grams in the fish meal group. The cost of producing one kilogram of fish is 29.8% lower than that of the fish meal group.

(1) Fish farming and special aquatic products

Fresh maggots can be fed directly, or mixed with other feeds for feeding, or dried and ground into maggot powder and mixed with other feeds to make pellet feed for feeding. When feeding fish directly, the feeding table should be far away from the bank of the pond to prevent individual maggots from swimming to the bank and becoming pupae after landing. The dry weight of the feeding amount should account for about 10% of the mixed feed.

(2) Chicken farming

After scalding the fresh maggots with boiling water, dry them and grind them into powder, then mix the maggot powder into other feeds and feed them. The daily feeding amount (dry weight) for each chicken is 0.3-0.5 grams for young chickens, 0.8-1.2 grams for growing chickens, and 1.7-2 grams for adult chickens.

(3) Pig farming

Kill them with boiling water or mix maggot powder with feed and feed them.

1. For fish farming and special aquatic products, fresh maggots can be fed directly, or mixed with other feeds for feeding, or dried and ground into maggot powder and mixed with other feeds to make granular feed for feeding. When feeding fish directly, the feeding table should be far away from the bank of the pond to prevent individual maggots from swimming to the bank and becoming pupae after landing. The feeding amount should be about 10% of the mixed feed in dry weight.

2. For chicken farming, use boiling water to kill fresh maggots, dry them, grind them into powder, and then mix the maggot powder with other feeds for feeding. The daily feeding amount (dry weight) for each chicken is 0.3-0.5 grams for young chickens, 0.8-1.2 grams for growing chickens, and 1.7-2 grams for adult chickens.

3. For pig farming, kill them with boiling water or mix maggot powder with feed and feed them.

This article is from: China Agricultural Press "Diagnosis and Control of Pests and Diseases"