Been looking into this the past few days and it seems like you can get a cheaper cost per gram of protein than like chicken per se if setup correctly. I’m looking to essentially replace much of my caloric intake with crickets or mealworms and slowly move away from traditional protein sources, for a better cost effect.
Anyone have experience with this? Or is there a better insect that I can farm for meals?
Does anybody have experience setting up a mealworm / cricket farm for human consumption?
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Peanut butter is only 99¢ a jar near me, so there’s that
If you do go down this path, I encourage you to consider how you can use the waste stream early on because the amount of detritus and mess you have to throw away will be an issue for your neighbors otherwise
Mealworms are easy but requires sorting and is slow
Crickets are hard and have massive die-offs, noisy, and stink… plus they’re expensive to feed unless you have that from another source
have you considered black soldier flies? Personally I’m still here for the 99¢ jars of PB
EDIT: sorry for the PB suggestion after hearing about your allergy!
Soy, peanuts, beans.. why would you go for worms🤢
There are people who use worms to help in their gardening. I think it’s called r/vermiculture maybe they have some idea of how to set up an edible worm operation.
/r/mealworms
I have a mealworm bin for chickens and fishing bait. They eat a potato or two every couple weeks. If you want to scale it, you need to get into sorting the different life stages. If you just want some to throw to the chickens now and then, one bin is fine.
I’ve heard crickets can be a pain, plus they smell. I think mealworms are the way to go.
Some guy on shartank was doing this but turning the cricket into a “protien flower”. He was saying that’s our future, it’s the most cost effective animal protein to grow per sqrft.
Bruh this sub 😭
man i thought i was cheap