Hello this time I want to give an easy way to cattle crickets.
This is what paved the way and encourage the emergence of cicada cultivation that currently has developed rapidly in various corners of the country. Easily breeding hundreds of species of crickets in Indonesia also support for the ease of cultivation of crickets that are living in the tropics and very suitable in Indonesia.
Crickets are one of the most common types of insects used as bird feed and reptiles. As interest in raising animals that consume crickets increases, demand for crickets increases.
Cultivation of Crickets to Harvest
In the cultivation of crickets to feed the birds or laiinya there are some important things to note. Among them is the condition of the cage where the cage should have the appropriate level of humidity and free from the beast.
You should control the moisture, especially during the dry season by spraying or closing the cage using a wet sack. Pests or enemies of crickets are actually many, such as cockroaches, ants, spiders and mice. In addition, crickets can also become cannibals if food availability is insufficient.
Media of Cricket Cultivation from Kardus
In cultivating crickets there are several ways of cultivation most easily and practically with the media of cultivation of cardboard can also sand.
First of all you have to prepare equipments for cardboard as cicada culture medium.
Ingredients:
Used CaseKayuPakuLakban Chocolat plastikLem Wood Cutter and Scissors
How to make:
If you have purchased a large cardboard box then you can immediately make it a cage cricket. If small you can assemble with size 50cm x 60cm x 120cm.Kardus with small size can be spliced up to fit the size of the above or slightly larger. Tape on the corners and the top of the box so the crickets do not creep out.Create the foot of the cage from as a pedestal and on each foot is given a bowl of salt water. This is to avoid disturbance of ants and the like.Jaraj feet from the ground ranging from 20cm to 30 cm.
Breeding: How to Cultivate Crickets (Marrying Cicada)
In general, the cultivation of crickets is very dependent on the breeding of crickets themselves, for example by marriage. The cradle of a cricket should be made separately from the enlargement or growth of the tiller.
The conditions of the cage used to marry the crickets should be made similar to the habitat of crickets as in the wild. The walls of the cage can be smeared with white cement, clay and given dry leaves such as banana leaves, teak leaves and wood shavings.
In addition, the crickets that are about to be mated must have the same species. If the male and female parent come from a different species, then the marriage fails. How to marry it is by entering the male and female parent with a ratio of 2:10.
How To Incubate An Egg In Cultivation Of Crickets
After the marriage takes place, which needs to be considered in the cultivation of crickets that incubate the eggs. The eggs of cricket marriages usually hatch after about 7-10 days from the day of marriage. Separate the crickets eggs no more than 5 days after the mother lay eggs.
Egg cultivation of crickets
Move the eggs to the hatching enclosure which is also an enlargement of the tillers. Will change egg color that was changed to become cloudy. Within 4-6 days the egg will hatch. At the time of hatching, keep the moisture of the cage by using water spraying or closing the cage using a wet burlap sack.
Feeding On Cricket Cultivation Should Be Noticed
Eggs have hatched but that does not mean the stage of cultivation of crickets has ended just like that. You should still pay attention to feeding to continue the cultivation of crickets until it is really harvest.
After the eggs hatch, about the age of 1-10 days you can feed the crickets with chicken feed or we are familiar with voor, from brown rice, dried corn and brown rice that has been mashed.
After more than 10 days, you can start feeding young corn and vegetables. Next you can add cassava, yam or cucumber.
After going through these stages, now comes the time to harvest the results of the way cultivation of crickets you have practiced. Output that you can get from the cultivation there are two eggs crickets and crickets adult.
Egg crickets in general have a more expensive price if sold when compared with the crickets. You can sell the eggs to the cultivator of cricket enlargement.
Civet cattle can be harvested after the age of about 30 days from the start hatching eggs. That is what we can convey so that it can be your guide in starting the way of cicada cultivation to feed the birds and others.
That's the practical way to cultivate crickets
