Maggots may not look very attractive, but they are an excellent food for fish and poultry. In order not to buy maggots in the store, an angler or poultry farmer can grow them on their own.
Instructions
Step 1
Maggots are usually called blue meat fly larvae. Maggot looks like a small white or light yellow worm, has a thick, elastic body, reaches a total length of 8-10 mm.
Step 2
It is worth breeding maggots in the warm season, best of all in summer. Take a piece of meat or some kind of offal, make a lot of not very deep punctures on it with a knife. Place the meat on a hook, hang it near the area where the flies live. For example, not far from trash cans. Place a large bowl half full of flour or bran on the floor under the meat.
Step 3
You don't need to do anything else. Flies will flock to the smell of meat, lay eggs in the slots you left, and after a few days maggots will hatch from them. The worms will crawl out of the holes, while falling into the exposed basin. You just have to collect them, using them as intended.
Step 4
You can also breed maggots on fish. Make several deep cuts on the carcass, salt it well and leave for 10-12 hours. Rinse the fish from salt, cut into small pieces, put in a jar, put in the habitat of flies. After 6 hours, sprinkle the fish with sawdust, close the jar with a lid, having previously made several holes in it for air access. If the flies had time to lay eggs, then after 3 days maggots will begin to appear in the jar.
Step 5
Maggots can be stored for up to 3 weeks by keeping them in the refrigerator. The cold temperature will not harm them, but it will also prevent the larvae from turning into pupae. The larvae can sometimes be fed with cottage cheese, this will make them thicker and more elastic.
