CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Flies feeding chickens (What to do if there are too many flies feeding chickens)

1. How to deal with flies when raising poultry?

Flies come here because they are looking for smells. It cannot be said that there is feces. As long as there is an environment suitable for flies to lay eggs, flies will come here. Fly prevention and control measures:

1. Put domestic garbage in plastic bags and clear them out every day. Do not let them stay in one place for a long time to prevent flies from coming into contact and laying eggs.

2. Trash bins (boxes, carts) must be covered and removed in a timely manner.

3. Timely eliminate garbage and sanitary dead corners in front of and behind houses, inside and outside units.

4. Restaurants, stalls and places where food is available should have fly prevention and fly killing facilities.

5. Residents in urban areas are prohibited from raising poultry and livestock.

6. Do not use chicken, duck or fish viscera or bones as flower fertilizer.

7. Hotels, restaurants and bars should have complete fly prevention and control facilities, and garbage should be sealed and removed in time. 8. Natural enemies can be used for prevention and control. For example: spiders, geckos, etc.!

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. Too many flies affect daily life! Mainly because the chicken farm is too close to the residential area! ?

Yes, chicken farms are indeed unsanitary and easy to attract flies, but now the state stipulates that the breeding industry must meet the standards before it will be approved, and it must be a certain distance away from residential areas, not too close, otherwise it will directly affect the daily lives of the surrounding residents. If it seriously interferes with the lives of others, it must be rectified or relocated to another place to avoid affecting the people.

4. 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.