Thread: Getting back to living off the land.....

Well that's the maggot farm up and running again using the grotty offcuts and hooves from the goat. It is a bucket with large holes drilled all around it, suspended on a strip of wood across the top of the bin. Rolled oats (or bran) is put on the bottom of the bin for the maggots to drop into when read to pupate.

By the end of the week their should be some well grown maggots in the rolled oats to feed to the chooks. They have a crazy amount of nutrients and great for the baby chickens. It also reduces your fly numbers because they lay in the bin and their offspring are eaten by the chooks, because very few escape the bin. There is bugger all smell because the huge number of maggots "eat"everything so fast. A roadkill hare lasts about 10 days max, and all that is left are fur and bones.

Some maggot farms just use a suspended bucket in the pen. But any maggots that drop out at night wriggle off to pupate and worsens your fly problem. By suspending the bucket in a bin, with rolled oats at the bottom they drop into the it's and clean themselves out. You only need to scoop it all up to feed to the chooks.