CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How much profit is there in maggot farming?

1. Is it really profitable to raise fly maggots?

I have also seen the person you mentioned. He was once broadcast on CCTV. I personally think it is true. But to be honest, the development of this industry has reached a bottleneck period. Some superficial resources have long been exhausted, such as using fly maggots as feed. As long as you have some knowledge, you can learn it. The market space is not large. Some deep technologies are still being developed, such as the extraction of chitin from fly egg shells, etc., but the research and development of these extraction technologies requires a lot of investment, so it is reasonable for experts to say that it is not suitable to raise maggots now.

As for Professor Hu Jinlin's "Flies, Breeding and Utilization" that you mentioned, it is indeed not available on the Internet, but what is certain is that fly breeding does exist.

2. Can you make money by raising maggots?

As far as I know, many people have made money from this project. But not everyone can make money. It involves many aspects such as technology, fly breeding quality, finished product processing, and finished product sales. Therefore, you must be very careful before investing. Haha, personal advice. For reference.

3. How to breed maggots? What is the best way to breed maggots?

Outdoor simple fly maggot breeding technology Although the yield of outdoor fly maggot breeding is lower than that of three-dimensional fly maggot breeding, and it is not as stable as three-dimensional fly maggot breeding, it has the advantages of low investment, quick results, no need to introduce species, no need to feed flies, and low cost. It is the choice of most breeders at present. The suitable season for outdoor simple fly maggot breeding is generally from the end of April to mid-October each year. The construction site of the simple breeding house is chosen in a place far away from the living area, with shade but certain light, and more wild flies. The area should be determined according to the required output. According to production experience, the average output per square meter is about 0.5 kg. As long as the breeding house can shelter from rain, thatched houses, cement tile houses, and bark houses are all fine. The house should be surrounded by 1-meter-high screens to prevent animals such as chickens and ducks from entering. The breeding pool requires a simple cement pool, each pool area is 1.5 square meters to 2 square meters, and the pool edge is 20 cm high. Preparation and placement of manure: 70% fresh pig manure (within 3 days of excretion by pigs), 30% chicken manure (within one week); 100% fresh pig manure from slaughterhouse; 75% pig manure, 25% tofu dregs; 50% chicken manure, 25% pig manure, 25% tofu dregs. Mix the above manures, with a water content of 100%, pile the manure to a height of 20 cm, cover it with agricultural film, and it can be used after 24 to 48 hours. Since it is outdoor breeding, the manure can be directly sent to the breeding pond without fermentation. Send the fermented manure to the maggot house, and pile three in each pond, each 0.8 meters long, 0.2 meters wide, and 0.15 meters high. The time for placing manure is 4 to 5 o'clock every afternoon. Preparation and placement of egg-collecting materials Since it is outdoors, there are more choices for egg-collecting materials. You can put dead fish directly on the dung pile, or you can prepare it according to the following formula: Calculate based on 100 kg of dung: 1 kg of wheat bran, 2 liang of fish meal, 3 liang of peanut bran, and 1.5 kg of water. Mix well and put it on the dung pile. After placing the egg-collecting materials, it is forbidden to walk around the maggot pool. Daily management: Put the dung well, put the egg-collecting materials (preferably dead fish or fish viscera in the first few days to attract wild flies), and in places with more wild flies, a large number of flies will gather on the egg-collecting materials within half an hour to lay eggs. At 9 o'clock in the evening, use a small amount of egg-collecting materials to cover the egg masses laid by the flies with a thin layer to increase the hatching rate and reduce the damage of insects such as ants. The fly eggs will all hatch the next morning. After 36 to 48 hours, the maggots have already made the previously neatly stacked manure pile very messy. After 72 hours, the first grown maggots begin to crawl out of the manure pile and automatically separate and fall into the maggot collection bucket. Generally, the maggots in the manure have been completely separated on the seventh day. Assuming that you have 14 maggot pools, you should add manure to two pools every day. Fill them all on the seventh day. On the eighth day, shovel out the residual manure that has been completely free of maggots on the first day and put in new manure. This cycle of production continues. At 10 o'clock in the morning, collect the maggots from the maggot collection bucket, shovel out the residual manure that has been completely free of maggots, and shovel the manure in other pools that has been loosened by maggots and has been piled up on the edge of the pool into the middle of the manure pile to avoid blockage and maggots cannot tell the way when separating. It is not necessary to feed simple outdoor maggot breeding. However, in order to keep the flies around the maggot breeding room, new manure and egg-collecting materials must be placed every day. The main food of flies comes from manure and egg-collecting materials. Since outdoor maggots cannot be disinfected, the maggots raised must carry a lot of harmful bacteria. It is recommended to soak them in 70,000 parts potassium permanganate water for 5 minutes before feeding them to economic animals.

4. What is the prospect of maggot farming?

I hope my answer can help you

At present, fly maggot farming in China is mainly used as bait for other farming, and there is no real fly maggot market in China. This is mainly caused by the following reasons:

First, the deep processing technology of fly maggots is still not perfect

Fly maggots are indeed useful from head to toe. For example, the antimicrobial peptides in fly maggots are very good bactericidal protein substructures. Because they do not cause any toxic side effects to the human body, and at the same time have a highly effective sterilization ability, only a concentration of one ten-thousandth is needed to kill all germs, and they will not produce drug resistance. There are also thrombins in fly maggots that can stop bleeding in the shortest possible time. The chitin on the surface of fly maggots is an important raw material in the medical and health industry. In addition, the protein content of fly maggots is as high as about 60%, which is sometimes a very good animal protein bait.

However, we do not have the supporting technical facilities in our country to completely separate and purify them from the fly maggots. The raw materials for these products (or the production of these products) used in our country are mainly imported from European countries.

Second, the market space is small

Since there are no large-scale fly maggot deep processing enterprises in China, there are naturally fewer channels for fly maggot sales. The only sales channels for fly maggots are breeding farms for use as bait and sterile maggots for sale as food. It is difficult for large-scale fly maggot breeding farms to meet such market space.

Third, consumption concepts are changing slowly

At present, the consumption concept of consumers is still relatively conservative, and the consumer market of sterile maggots is mainly concentrated in the coastal areas, and there are few large sterile maggot markets in inland areas, because it is difficult for consumers to accept this form of goods.

Combining the above points, I personally think that it is best not to blindly make large-scale investments in camp production before finding a suitable sales channel.

5. What are the costs and profits of maggot farming?

The cost of producing one pound of fly maggots is more than 2 yuan. If the scale is several hundred pounds, it is difficult to achieve and the cost will increase rapidly, at least 4 yuan per pound. There are about 700 fly maggots in one pound. Fly maggots are not only rich in protein and have a full range of essential amino acids, but also contain lysozyme, lectin, antibacterial skin, antibacterial protein, ergotins and other active substances. Therefore, it is an excellent feed with a new type of protein source.

6. Can you make money by raising maggots?

There is a market, but you can only make money if you can sell live maggots. If you process them into dry powder and compete with fish meal, the advantage is not obvious. There are two sets of breeding technology, one is to use feces to breed and the other is to use feed raw materials to breed. The cost is different, and the cleanliness of the maggots and social opinions are also different.

7. How many maggots can be produced from one ton of pig manure when breeding maggots using pig manure?

Generally, the temperature is 35 degrees Celsius and the pH is around 6.8.

In an environment with a relative humidity of 85%, the production can be completed in 7 to 15 days, and one kilogram of fermented pig manure can successfully hatch about 60 grams of fly maggots.

If it is fresh, it can reach more than one kilogram.

Fly maggots are high in protein and can be used as live feed for other aquaculture. They have a short production cycle and considerable profits. The waste produced is still an excellent organic fertilizer that can be provided to fruit trees, flowers and other planting industries.