CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Will chickens get parasites if they eat flies? (Video of Will Chickens Get Parasites If They Eat Flies)

1. Are flies parasites?

Flies are not parasites. Flies belong to the class of insects, arthropods, and the class of insects. Parasites rely on the host's body organs or skin to absorb nutrients to complete their growth, development and survival. For example, roundworms and pork tapeworms are parasites, while flies, although they can transmit some viruses, are not parasites. They can reproduce on their own and do not need a host.

2. How to feed chickens with maggots?

In order to better answer your question, let’s first understand the benefits of feeding fly maggots to chickens;

Why do we feed fly maggots to 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. In most cases, can we feed chickens with maggots only?

Definitely not. Fly maggots are 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?

Yes, 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. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

After sorting it out, this is the method of feeding maggots to chickens in professional farms. I hope it can help you!

3. What are the dangers of feeding maggots to chickens?

Generally, the total amount should account for 20% of the feed and should not exceed 30%. If the chickens eat too much, they will excrete the maggots after eating them and then eat them again. It may also lead to excess egg white, swelling of the chicken's abdomen and death.

It is not recommended to feed immature maggots to chicks, because the maggots have undigested bacteria in their stomachs and on their bodies, so mature maggots will no longer eat. At the same time, there are no black threads in their stomachs, and the dirt on their bodies has been wiped clean when they crawl out. In addition, empty-stomach chickens need to eat some other feed first, and then feed the maggots, so that the utilization rate is higher.

4. Do chickens eat flies and caterpillars?

It is natural for chickens to eat insects, and they won’t be poisoned. Chickens can eat centipedes without any problems, let alone small caterpillars. It’s a piece of cake!

You definitely didn't die from eating insects. There must be other reasons.

Did he get some disease?

5. What’s the matter with chickens eating flies?

There is nothing wrong with old hens eating flies. Flies are a kind of insects, which belong to the category of chicken food. After being eaten and digested, they are converted into meat. Hens are a kind of poultry with small heads, oval eyes, sharp and hard beaks, and dense and long hairs, so they are also called round-haired hens. They start eating late and eat slowly. In the same batch of chickens, more roosters are born after 20.5 days, and more hens are born after 21 days. Classification level: Animalia-Chordata-Vertebrata-Aves-Protoptera-Galliformes-Phasianidae, Gallus gallus, domestic chicken species.