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1. Is it good to feed garlic to chickens?

It is good to feed chickens with garlic. Garlic can increase gastrointestinal motility and digestion, prevent diseases such as accumulated heat, improve the immunity of native chickens, and enhance muscle quality. Its feces contains the spicy smell of garlic, which effectively prevents flies and mosquitoes, ensuring its health and environmental hygiene.

2. Is there anyone who feeds chickens with fly maggots? What is the effect? ​​Do you need to disinfect and sterilize the maggots from wild flies before feeding them to chickens? Can an expert give me some advice?

Feeding chickens with maggots combined with feed is very effective in improving the immunity of chickens and laying eggs better.

3. How to breed insects with pig manure to feed chickens?

There are two ways to raise insects and chickens in rural areas with pig manure roots

One method is to mix pig manure with a certain amount of soil, put it in a cement fixed pool, and then throw the earthworm seedlings in. It won’t take long before the earthworms grow fast under the nutrients in the pig manure. In addition, they have strong reproductive ability. This is the most effective way to feed chickens, and the chickens raised taste good.

Secondly, stack the pig manure in a fixed box, semi-seal it, and let it ferment to produce a foul odor. When flies smell it, they will come to eat and lay eggs. After about a week, maggots will be produced. The maggots use pig manure as food, and they can be taken out of the box and used to feed chickens in about two weeks. However, this method has a certain impact on the ambient air.

4. I want to raise chickens at home, and the cost is not too high, so I would like to ask how to produce insects for the chickens to eat at home?

[If you want to raise chickens at home, producing insects to feed the chickens and reducing costs is a good idea]

Feeding chickens with insects can reduce breeding costs and improve the immunity of chickens. The native chickens raised in this way are called insect chickens, which are delicious and very popular. At present, there are many ways to feed chickens with insects. What kind of insects should be raised to feed chickens? Let me share my experience and views with my partners.

The principles and standards for determining which insects to raise and what methods to use, based on my experience in exploration and practice over the past few years, are to save labor and effort, require less investment, have low costs, and produce enough to meet the daily chicken feeding requirements. I will share my experience and opinions with my partners below:

1. If you want to raise dozens of chickens, for example, 50 chickens, and calculate the daily food intake of 50 grams (one tael) per chicken (not all of them can be fed with insects, the chickens will get sick), the average daily production of insects is about 5 kilograms, and about 150 kilograms in a month. Then dig 7 to 10 earth pits in your chicken farm (well spaced, there are many specific methods, I won't go into details here), bury the pits with straw and rotten leaves, pour rice soup and cover them, and after seven or eight days, there will be white ants and other insects. You do this in turn, and it is basically enough for these dozens of chickens. This method is the simplest, and does not require any investment, and is very suitable for this scale.

Of course, there are many other ways, such as raising earthworms, maggots, mealworms, black soldier flies and other insects. This requires investment in facilities, mastering breeding techniques, breeding materials and labor, and the cost is not low. For people who raise such a large scale, it is time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly, and it is not cost-effective. Although it is simple in theory and experts say it is simple, you will know it when you actually do it.

2. If you want to raise chickens as a business, and want to earn tens of thousands of yuan or even more a year, and raise them all year round, the above method is not feasible. Raise 200 to 300 chickens in a batch, and 600 chickens can be slaughtered in a year. It takes about 1,000 kilograms of insects a month, an average of more than 30 kilograms a day. Such a large amount can only be met by artificial breeding facilities. So, among the four existing varieties of insects, earthworms, mealworms, maggots, and black soldier flies, which variety should be chosen?

1. Earthworms: The breeding technology is not difficult, but to reach a monthly output of more than 1,000 kilograms, the site must be large and the labor input is high. There is also a fatal point, fresh (live) earthworms cannot be fed directly to chickens. If you feed chickens directly with fresh earthworms, the chickens will get sick. They must be dried and crushed before feeding, which is very labor-intensive. It requires supporting drying and crushing facilities. Drying and spitting fresh earthworms into powder requires a lot of labor input and a lot of expenses (electricity, coal, and firewood costs).

2. Mealworms: The investment in facilities is too large (20,000 to 30,000 yuan), the breeding process is very labor-intensive, and the technical requirements are also high. I have bred them on a small scale, and the estimated cost is about 4 yuan per catty. It is not advisable to use this kind of breeding cost to raise chickens.

3. Maggots: The investment in facilities is smaller than that of mealworms, and can be obtained at 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. The breeding technology is also relatively simple, the breeding cost is not high (about 1 yuan per pound), the source of raw materials is wide and cheap, and the production output is high. It is not difficult to produce 1,000 to 2,000 chickens a year. The disadvantage is that the temperature is low in winter and it is difficult to raise them. In the southern region, it is barely possible with some heating facilities. There is no way in the northern region. In addition, the time for maggots to pupate (turn into flies) is short in summer (5 to 7 days), so the output must be planned well, otherwise it will cause damage to the environment.

4. Black soldier fly: A new type of insect farming developed in the past two years. It can be farmed all year round, and the investment in facilities is similar to that of fly maggot farming, but the farming management is easier than that of fly maggot farming, the technical requirements are not difficult, the yield is higher than that of fly maggots, the source of raw materials is more abundant, and it will not affect the environment. The farming cost is about 1 yuan/jin.

[Conclusion] For small-scale chicken farming, digging pits to raise white ants is the best method. If the site does not allow or cannot be done this way, raise black soldier flies (a small investment of 2,000 to 3,000 yuan in facility costs will be enough): For large-scale farming, black soldier flies are the first choice, followed by maggots. It is recommended not to raise other species, as you will regret it.

What kind of insects are best for raising chickens? I will share my practical experience in the past few years with my partners without reservation.

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