The best part is the decreasing numbers of the beetles on his property which means his method is suppressing them helping the whole area not just his property
Good first step, more people will have to do this in order to make an impact tho, just one man with a few traps isn't going to reduce their numbers a whole lot. For every one that he caught, dozens more are hatching every day.
@@Nate-bn5kk yes absolutely right, if a lot of people use them they can make an impact. I've binged watched a lot of videos of people using these traps and almost all said they saw a decrease in the numbers of beetles.
@@Curly_Maple I think it makes sense because he disurupts their cycles. If more people around his property used the traps I believe they can make a dent in their numbers and reduce the beetle's impact significantly.
@@Curly_Maple Only around his property tho, the next property over might not notice much of a difference. This feed method will need to be standard practice for the public to effectively make a real difference, not everyone wants their chicken's bug fed.
Hopefully whatever liquid/bait is used in the trap is organic too. Gut-loading is an important concept to bear in mind when feeding the food of your animals.
This is actually pretty big brain, especially considering that bugs are actually cheap, reliable, and readily available sources of protein too! Mix it with grain and boom, perfect feed imo
Man gave his chickens the natural stamp, gets food for them for free and removes pests that'll negatively affect the environment if left unchecked. Can't get any better than that
@@Animezoa1yes, what you feed to your animals will determine the taste of the meat. It's no different for all animals. Even bear meat is never the same, different on each bear, and better when it just eats berries and meat other than just fish and rotting stuff...
I'm from down that way and these damn June bugs are all over the place, so he literally killed two birds with one stone by turning pests into chicken feed. Talk about a win/win!
@@toddburgess5056Yeah I'm glad someone pointed this out! Both are gross but totally different. June bugs are a solid lighter orange color around that size and more rounded, they become dark brown and much bigger. I freaking HATE June bugs 😂
Yes chickens/jungle fowls naturally eat bugs and worms in the wild those eggs are highly nutrtious full of vitamins and minerals and other trace nutrients
@@infj5196 yes they are beautiful creations of God but men has disturbed the local eco system by introducing foreign species that shouldn't have been there in the first place.
I do the SAME thing 👍 I USED to get so upset & frustrated at the horrendous damage these beetles used to cause in my garden every year. They especially like eating fruit trees and flowers… but at my place their favorite meal seems to be the leaves of a grape vine that just popped up on its own a few years ago. The grapes are terrible tasting, so I really don’t care. But the best part is, my chickens absolutely LOVE eating the beetles… So I set some beetle traps upwind from the grape vine and catch more than I can count. I’m able to fill several gallon size ziploc bags every summer and stick them in my extra freezer. Then during winter when no other bugs are around, I begin thawing and feeding the beetles to my chickens- rationing them out over the season 👍
@@godsofourland95not on purpose but chickens remember what they eat. its why if you feed them eggshells for calcium you need to crush them up so they dont look like eggs or else the chickens will start eating their own eggs because the associate eggshells with food
I put wood down or an unused garbage can on its side and before I lifted them, I called my chickens over. They loved the earwigs that would hide under those things. The eggs were great. This man is high scale trapping these beetles. Great job!
This is great, being able to reduce the amount of a invasive species so native flora and fauna can bounce back, but also giving the chickens a healthy diet, doing great work
This is literally amazing, not only is he just converting to feeding his chicken the beetles, but the beetles are high in protein and more healthy than the commercial feed, these chickens are going to grow strong!
@Freerider93 If you're think their poisoned because of the trap he uses, then you might be wrong as the video says that the traps use pheromones not poison, it also appears to be a live trap.
I've used fly traps, but the stink is terrible. The best I found so far is to put a $9 deer bait block in a five gallon bucket. Put it outside for two weeks and let the rain drench it a few times. Then, put the lid on and keep it closed for two weeks. Then, open it up, and you will find thousands of huge grubs eating the bait. My girls love the grubs, and they save me a ton on chicken feed.
Sounds like you're just creating grubs rather than capturing anything worth talking about. Not a horrible choice, and the cover probably decreases the odor. Almost there.
@gackmcshite4724 I agree. The grubs are not maggots because they are too big. They must come from eggs laid in the deer bait. All I know is that block produces thousands and continues to provide grubs for at least 6 months at one scoop of grubs a day. As far as the smell, it's not bad. It smells more like fermentation than rotting things. I tried the fly traps and the girls will stand around the traps eating flies that are attracted. However, the smell the trap gives off is like that of a putrid corpse, and if the girls get into the trap's liquid, they will feast on the drowned flies and wherever they poop it smells like a dead, putrid, body.
@jeanpierre72 I definitely got Mummy scarab vibes from these Beatles at least they don't eat people. When I saw the trailer for that movie is a little kid I swore I would never watch that movie. I didn't watch it until I was an adult and forgot that I'd promised not to watch it. Plus it has Brandon Fraiser in it, so couldn't be that scary. Meh, I was mostly right but The Beatles are really scary. Universal totally capitalized on that with their ride.
A big thank you to this guy the more he catches and feeds to his chickens the less of them there are to eat my roses flowers and vegetable garden again thank you keep up the great work
I do not grow certain fruit trees on my property because I know that they attract Japanese beetles which eat the leaves and damage the roots of other plants. This is good to know!
I think these beetles are similar to the beetles we call "Christmas beetles" here in South Eastern Australia. They especially love the gum/eucalyptus trees and come out in summer. During winter their larvae live underground, hibernate and emerge as the ground warms up. Researchers are trying to come up with new ways of eradicating them because they have ruined crops and they can be hard to get rid of. Just when you think they are gone, new beetles arrive (like locust plagues).
AND the eggs layed by these chickens will contain something like TWICE the nutrients a "normal" egg layed by a grain fed chiken has. Grain is not the natural food of chikens, bugs are.
Not sure where you got that info, but the chickens that we domesticated spent most of their reproductive cycle eating bamboo seeds. Sure, they are omnivores, but to say that they mainly feasted on bugs is ridiculous. Try doing a simple Google search once in a while
@@Bigparr43 Any free range chicken will search for insects, mice, snakes, frogs, snails and any bug that comes across. If presented with the opportunity, it will also feed on seeds, grains and fruit, and if raised near humans, also human food waste. But they're opportunistic feeders, much like seagulls, bears and humans, so if they can ingest calories without spending much energy they'll come running to the chow whenever they get the signal, even if a fistful of cheap grain (domesticated chickens are business chickens, so fodder must be cheap and there's nothing cheaper than grain) not as nurturing as a mouse. Regarding the nutritional content of eggs layed by free range chickens (that are not purposely feed grain) vs. grain fed chickens, the studies have been made and free range wins by twice and even trice the quantities of the same nutrients, which to me confirms that grain is not optimal food for chickens.
Not true. Chickens are omnivors. I free-range my chickens, and they eat a variety of plants as the seasons permit. On my property, that includes: sorghum, wheat, oats, buckwheat, winter pea shoots, rape seed, and fruit that falls from trees in the summer, as well as bugs. They naturally eat a very balanced diet.
I can already tell his eggs will be literally glowing Orange. I always noticed when buying eggs from normal feed-farm compared to organic feed/lots of bugs etc that the Egg-Yolk has just such a bright and deep Orange colour
Same thing, in my country they call it village chickens eggs. These chickens consume much higher amounts of protein and nutrients. Causing a deeper color of the yolk
Now if only they didn't breed so damned fast. My mother for at least 40 years have used those same traps and we'd have to change the three bags every few days. Though I'm calling BS on him filling those bags up till they were overflowing like that. They work because you put some water in the bottom and they fall in and drown. Being that full they'd just crawl out and fly off.
I’m just impressed that the man has been able to feed John, Paul, George and Ringo to his chickens over and over without any public backlash… unsurprisingly, the number of captured Beatles has decreased over the years, but he’s still managed to continue feed his chickens Beatles, and we should all applaud him for that.
@@dynamicworlds1 that this low quality AI video should be on TV every day and that farmers should adopt a practice that isn't even sustainable for a 13 acre operation.
A perfect example of a "Win-Win-Win" situation. Triple Win!!! 😊😊😂😂 Win for the environment, win for the farmers, and most importantly win for the chickens
No. I was so inundated. My garden looked like locusts had gone through. Unfortunately, as they are eating and mating, they are dropping eggs into the soil, which means they'll be another bumper crop this year. Since I do organic gardening, I will not be putting anything into the soil. So my plan is to grab them by hand and feed them to my chickens, but it will be a lot of work. Hopefully in the next year or two will have hatched, and then I will have captured them and fed them to the girls.
Perahaps they should award the man for the idea, then pass a bill named after him to import and hand out beetle traps to farms across the states?@@zacharyhenderson2902
They are an invasive pest, hell my mother has been using those same traps for 40 years because they eat damn near anything. They'll destroy roses and crops alike.
-Hows the chicken? -taste like beetle. Seriously, im amazed with this man. Controlling the pest while having a free chicken feeds rich in fresh protein.
When I was younger we purchased these traps to put next to our peach trees at our farm. They filled in an hour. We ended up modifying one and putting a 5-gallon bucket with a garbage bag under it, and that filled over the next day. Just a massive bucket full of bugs. I wish we had animals to feed with the bugs. Pretty sure we just ended up burning them instead.
For those without chickens, two milky spore treatments in my lawn reduced the japanese beetle population the next year very noticeably. Now almost completely wiped out. The spores kill the grubs. Amazing natural deterrent.
@@HeIterSkelterdude was saying "why farm black soldier flies if you can kill off Japanese beetles instead", which to me doesn't have to be an either or.
@@michaelsorensen7567 That's true ive seen people feed those to their animals too, would be smart to do both. Would be nice to only decline the numbers of invasive species though.
Such a fantastic idea brother all of American farmers should do this and sell them to poultry farmers and their own chickens too if they have any. Also it’s doing their country a great service
@@6DunJuan9and who will pay the people who make the feed if it's free, are we gonna do this the stalin way by taking control of all farms and controlling who gets what at the cost of 3 others so they can have "a little more?"
I came up with a similar method of collecting Japanese beetles several years ago. Recommendation to the farmer: Above the chicken coop cut a hole for a 6-inch stove pipe to be lowered down through. Set the pheromone on top of a vertically placed 6-inch diameter stove pipe about 6 feet in length. Bungee the vertical stove pipe to something solid. When the beetle hits the metal stove pipe, the chickens know food is soon to drop out the bottom. The chickens go nuts over this. Forget about the bags.
I forgot to mention in my post above that it is hilarious watching them fly toward the pheromone. It is almost as though the Japanese Beetles are prehistoric creatures. The pheromone is the smell of Japanese Beetle sex. So that odor draws them in for quite some distance.
I live in the city and I have several pet chickens. The first chicken I got was when Obama was in office and eggs went to five dollars a dozen. I figured one chicken one person that’s good but then you get addicted to chickens and you start buying chicks, turn out to be probably more than you want just cleaning up, poopy little things. But then they grow up the chickens at 4 to 6 months. All different personalities are fascinating to watch, and my chickens know their names and most of them come to their names.
