Yesterday I just visited a place of cicada cultivation that has my own uncle. the cultivation of crickets is now becoming a trend among the middle and above, Business cattle crickets is a business opportunity that in the past few years had this boom had dimmed, Starting a civet livestock business, it would be nice if the crane breeding is derived from the original and also in good condition in other words parent is not disabled. Indeed, to get crickets directly from the nature is very difficult to obtain, for that as an alternative substitute is you can make the breed certainly with more care.
The price of crickets in the market is very expensive because it is used for bird feed for birds have a beautiful voice, because the cricket is also a bird's feed. The selling price of own crickets starts from Rp. 40,000 up to Rp. 50,000 per kilo gram. or about $5 to $6 dollars.
Preparing Means and Equipment of cage crickets
Because crickets usually do activities at night, then the cage crickets should not be placed under the sun, so place in the shade and dark. because by being in a dark spot the crickets become more calm and not restless.
caged crickets are usually square and made of cardboard and inside have been given wood husks and do not forget to feed the crickets a lot. feed crickets is corn that has been smoothed and placed in the cage cicadas in large numbers.
cage cricket made of plywood
feed crickets in the form of corn that has been smoothed and shaped flour grains
Seed crickets
Seeds of crickets needed to be raised should be healthy, not sick, not disabled (abrupt or broken legs) and aged about 10-20 days. Good cricket parent candidates are crickets derived from wildlife catchments, as they usually have better body resistance.
Crickets usually lay their eggs sandy or ground. So in a special cage laying prepared sand media that is inserted in small dishes. Comparison between female and male 10: 2, in order to obtain eggs with high hatchability.
egg crickets
In the process of hatching the egg should the mother be separated from the egg and placed in another cage, otherwise the egg will be eaten by its own parent. Egg moisture should be maintained by spraying eggs every day and eggs must be bunched back to avoid moldy. Eggs will hatch evenly about 4-6 days.
Maintenance of Crickets
As explained above that in the management of this cricket sanitation farm is a very important issue. To avoid any substances or toxins contained in the cage material, then before the crickets are inserted into the cage, it is better to clean the cage first and smeared the mud and given rice husk or rice husk
and fed in large quantities
Feeding of crickets
Babies aged 1-10 days are given Voor (chicken food) made from soybeans, brown rice and dried maize are mashed. After this vase, the seedlings can start feeding vegetables in addition to young corn and gambas. As for the crickets that are mated, given the feed among others: mustard, carrots, corn, peanuts, cassava leaves and cucumbers because of high water content. In fact there is also a feed for cattle that mated other anatar: corn bran, fish flour, black sticky, duck egg yolk, kalk and some vitamins are mashed and blended into one. even crickets must also provide vegetable feed.
Cage maintenance
the cage should always and must be kept clean at least 2 or 3 days cage cleaned so as not to arise bacteria and pests that bring disease to crickets.
Harvest Crickets
Cricket farmers can get 2 (two) main results that have the same economic value, namely: eggs that can be sold to other breeders and adult crickets for bird and fish feed and for cricket flour. in this harvest time we are not allowed to sell all the crickets because some of it because if want to continue the sale of crickets need not complicated selection of seeds and others. so therefore sell crickets some of them all.
So my brief explanation of the cultivation of javanese thank you read and I apologize if there is writing wrong ang or words that you do not understand and read. 