Obiagelli:

The bolded is why i dont try it on my birds, the only non conventional thing i do with my birds is feeding them water leaf in very hot weather to boost vitamins and minerals.

GURION:



Lols...remember those vegetables also grow well on soil enriched by dead and decomposing animals/human beings.
Whichever way u look at it...its a cycle.

jeckin205:
Farm Tech@ Will it be hygeine to Mix maggot with poultry feed and feed its to chickenWill it be hygeine to Mix maggot with poultry feed and feed its to chicken

FarmTech:
.. With this my method, there is no need to fear botulism.

Obiagelli:
Do you mean feeding water leaf? no

FarmTech:

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With this mtd of raising maggots.

Obiagelli:

I only feed my fishes with the maggot, i have never had problems doing. I even feed them with chicken mortality atimes, i just burn the feathers off the dead birds and throw the slightly roasted chicken in the pond.

FarmTech:

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The simple solution for such people is to change the way they think. Don't try to follow follow what vegetarians are doing. It is an unhealthy way to live and a kind of self-imposed bondage.

FarmTech:

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A lot of people do it that way. But for me, I'll prefer cooking it first for 2 reasons: to kill dangerous bacteria and to make it more digestible. Most time it is impossible to know whether something is working if u did not try it the other way. And one thing with bacteria and viruses is that they may not strike ur fish immediately until after weeks have passed. They can also slow down growth without u noticing.
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Many pigs farmers are also making this mistake. They believed that a pig is a pig and so u can feed them any dirty scrap and get away with it. Farmers like that don't usually succeed bc by the time u go large scale and continue feeding them as before, diseases will soon close down the farm and frustrate u out of the business. I don't joke with dangerous bacteria and viruses. Respect them and u'll go far in agriculture.

whirlwind7:


Sincerely, I don't think the purpose of this thread is to answer ridiculous questions or respond to statements about how unhealthy or even poisonous this practice could be. Let those who see the massive opportunity in this idea learn from it.

These arguments remind me of a certain haughty lady at a grocery who was about to buy meat. when the butcher suggested she can buy some cow tongue, she took offense, and said she is above eating anything that comes from inside the mouth of an animal. The butcher then asked her: do you eat eggs? Her reply: of course I do!

Get it? She won't eat something that comes from the mouth of a cow, yet she eats something that comes from the ass of a chicken.

If all these guys haven't still realized that everything we eat comes from a cycle of nature-recycled plants, animal and even human beings, what are they doing in the agriculture section?

Obiagelli:

You have some point, but when dealing with between 10 to 20 mortality everyday, its a bit of work to defeather and boil. Anyways i dont expect bacteria to survive the heat from burning/roasting, the fluid in the bird is already boiling at that point.

FarmTech:

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Pls don't be offended, how many birds do u have? I find the mortality frightening. What is the overall mortality like?

Obiagelli:

Couple of thousands, don't want too much info on a public forum, i hope u'll understand.

FarmTech:

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Yes I do. Check the overall mortality, if it is greater than 5% something is wrong. And as for feeding them to fish after roasting, that's not very efficient because some microbes can survive that - like those in the intestine and in the flesh.

Obiagelli:

It is way less than 0.1%. Thanks for the advice on the feeding method

xqeypoo:
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FarmTech:

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Once you dry it very well and store in an airtight container or nylon, it will last for years.

FarmTech:

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You're all wlcm.

I've come across articles on black soldier flies, but mainly from white men. Are these flies in Africa?

joborskill:



i smell lies

I have been doing this for year, i feed my fish with them.
I normally use mortality from the chicken farm, never fed maggots to my birds though.

FarmTech:

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You're all wlcm.

I've come across articles on black soldier flies, but mainly from white men. Are these flies in Africa?

bamdexfarms:



defattening will increase the protein density of the maggots.

peterbabs:


Yes, they are, Sir!
https://www.nairaland.com/3148746/black-soldier-fly-larva-bsfl

oladimejioo:

In as much the defattening will increase protein density, it should not be forgotten that the oil is also important. So why remove something will need to buy when you want to compound your feed. Also adding hot water will result in reduced oil level and hot water will dissolve the oil, thus reducing the oil level especially knowing fully well maggot has high moisture content.

midastouch:
@Farmtech,

This is admirable. You can also try it with Black Solder Fly (BSF), the flies do not have mouth openings and are therefore considered more sterile (safer) and non disease transmitting.