Black Soldier Fly Larvae

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
Just had a call and was offered a "lot" of black solider fly larvae.

Can anyone give me a quick summary of the product and its use? Of all the random calls I have had, this is well up there for @Farmdeals
 
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Just had a call and was offered a "lot" of black solider fly larvae.

Can anyone give me a quick summary of the product and its use? Of all the random calls I have had, this is well up there for @Farmdeals

It's the future ........

As soon as we are allowed to, going to set up a hatchery for these critters as a protein source for our cows.
At present in the UK, you can "feed" the larvae to humans but not to animals thanks to BSE

Dutch are going big on these already


Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Just had a call and was offered a "lot" of black solider fly larvae.

Can anyone give me a quick summary of the product and its use? Of all the random calls I have had, this is well up there for @Farmdeals

It's the future ........

As soon as we are allowed to, going to set up a hatchery for these critters as a protein source for our cows.
At present in the UK, you can "feed" the larvae to humans but not to animals thanks to BSE

Dutch are going big on these already


 
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Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
It's the future ........

As soon as we are allowed to, going to set up a hatchery for these critters as a protein source for our cows.
At present in the UK, you can "feed" the larvae to humans but not to animals thanks to BSE

Dutch are going big on these already



So you can't feed to animals going into the supply chain then. Price was £5.87 per kg, so not cheap either, but very high in protein from the spec.
 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
So you can't feed to animals going into the supply chain then. Price was £5.87 per kg, so not cheap either, but very high in protein from the spec.

Be ok as fish food.
IIRC there is a Londin start up specifically for the fishing industry... salmon farming seems to be ok but not farm animals


And the London Co

 

Bald Rick

Moderator
Livestock Farmer
Location
Anglesey
Don’t agree with feeding it to cows hens or pigs makes sense

It will be the future.
Sustainable high protein source able to replace soya in diets.
As soon as we are allowed to feed it, I’m in

 

Poorbuthappy

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
It is legal to feed live them to chickens, but not processed.
I had a zoom meeting with a guy setting up a company whereby you rent a shipping container converted to a self contained larvae farm.
In that case they supply the eggs/larvae (can't remember what stage) for you to grow on, but put another stage of the process in the container and you could be self replicating.
The numbers didn't add up at my scale but I can see it working for big units as the price comes down.

Agree with @Cowmansam that it'll end in tears if fed to ruminants (not sure that'll be allowed any time soon anyway) but seems perfectly natural for poultry and pigs.
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
It is legal to feed live them to chickens, but not processed.
I had a zoom meeting with a guy setting up a company whereby you rent a shipping container converted to a self contained larvae farm.
In that case they supply the eggs/larvae (can't remember what stage) for you to grow on, but put another stage of the process in the container and you could be self replicating.
The numbers didn't add up at my scale but I can see it working for big units as the price comes down.

Agree with @Cowmansam that it'll end in tears if fed to ruminants (not sure that'll be allowed any time soon anyway) but seems perfectly natural for poultry and pigs.

I believe it is now approved to feed to poultry in processed form as well as live.
 

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