(24 May 2013, 10:18)bigpaul Wrote: any reasons WHY crickets? and will you be buying them from somewhere or will you be catching them? I know there has been this thing in the news about eating insects but we have enough rabbits, squirrels and other vermin in this country to go around without resorting to insects and much more appetising too.
why don't you try cooking and eating roadkill instead. free food and someone else has killed it for you
Crickets because of the ease of reproduction.
If you have chickens or rabbits, or any other animal, the amount of food they use will produce a limited amount of meat/eggs/etc. The same amount of feed for those animals will produce over 5 times more crickets.
10 lbs of feed/grain produces 1lb of beef. However, 10lbs of feed/grain produces 9lbs of crickets!!! It's a brilliant natural resource.
Initially I'll be buying the crickets. If it goes to plan, and I make reasonable meals, then I'll look towards breeding. But for now, I just want to try and cook them.
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