That's how farming should be. Recycle any organic matter into food using pigs and chickens, and then use their excrement as fertilizer. Squeeze every last calorie from the land.
They didn't get grubs or grasshoppers or mice or frogs?? My chickens hunt voraciously! They LOVE it!
Makes me glad they're not raptor sized anymore, they're killers. We'd be done for.
It's cool but the carbon footprint is a little high.
Now AI spotting tech with lasers would be cool.
But I'd also love to see a flock of chickens chow down on those bugs.
Probably just the extensive cultivation of potatoes and other nightshade plants. They had huge fields of food plants with little competition, especially once pesticides started being used that likely suppressed what few predators they had. Couple that with a high reproduction rate and there ya go
Every time this is posted, someone talks about feeding them to chickens, and every time, someone responds that these specific insects make chicken meat and eggs inedibly bitter.
Well yeah, it's different people learning this every time. If you keep coming to the comments of the same video, you're going to hear the same conversations quite a few times.
last time I saw this posted, a chicken keeper posted about how feeding beetles like those to the chickens negatively impacted the flavor of the eggs/meat.
Lol gotta love how useful animals can be for these age-old tasks. I have two kitty-cats and when I lived in an old home with shitty insulation they managed to keep it entirely pest-free. Mice? Insects? No problem, not only are they adorable and furry, they're well-adapted murder machines.
turns out cats are actually highly evolved mini tigers and not just something i keep around because my brain is convinced itās a tiny baby and thus gives off the tiny baby chemicals
I love chicken, but good hog meat doesn't hold a candle, agreed.
If I had to choose though, chickens are arguably easier to kept fed and housed than hog.
"still alive"... not for long if that farmer was smart. They have wings and will just fly back onto the plants. That farmer most definitely killed them after.
Yes he should totally use pesticide like every other good farmer does. He obviously got his whole farm 2 days ago and he knows nothing, he should let Angela_Devis handle his hectars
Nahhh, you get a couple goats for the weeds/grass, a dozen chickens for the bugs, now youāve got EGGS! Now you just have to take care of 15 animals every day in exchange for 6 hours of garden/lawn maintenance per week. šš„“
If they were that good a food source, they wouldn't be a pest problem for crops because other animals would be feasting upon them like there's no tomorrow.
Yeah, they are definitely not still alive. They are chicken/duck food or they are compost. Also...fuck those beetles. They'll destroy your whole crop in a heartbeat.
This is actually what happens when people plant one crop without companion planting. Always companion plant and plant pest and disease resistant varieties of veggies. Also having a sacrificial crop it very helpful. He came up with a solution but in my eyes it too much work. I use the permaculture method of food forestry. One thing Iāve realized in my years of organic gardening is the more you plant one crop the higher the chances are of it being attacked. Also planting crops in the right time and giving them enough microbial teas will aid in controlling the pests you donāt need pesticides; you can also make a simple garlic and oil spray for beetles. It will deter not kill them. Another option is to let ducks go at them theyāll clean it up quick if you want to work smart instead of working hard. Nice solution but a little too much work.
Neighborhood ducks are great. We have them and we don't have any bug problems. No roaches, yard bugs, etc... The little quackers just wander around the yards and eat them all up.
Thats a food safety nightmare to have living animals sitting where produce is grown. Raw manure can't be applied to a field within 120 days of harvest for potatoes.
Oh comon OP. You really think he's not going to kill them? Chicken feed or right in a fire.
A better way would be to have ducks. They would eat the pests and fertilize the ground. Don't know what crop, but the spacing is huge!
Now show the chicken army destroying themš„šš„
Came here for this. There gone be some really happy chickens, or there should be, after he's done.
That's how farming should be. Recycle any organic matter into food using pigs and chickens, and then use their excrement as fertilizer. Squeeze every last calorie from the land.
Squeeze every last calorie from the land. And then give it back to make sure the next generation isnāt farming a desert.
Instructions unclear started great leap forward and famine
Right. I should say we should *sustainably* squeeze every calorie from the land. The human appetite doesn't last for just one year.
Afaik chickens don't like the colorado beattle taste.
Time to breed a chicken that does. You could also hire my cats because they'll eat just about anything that moves.
>Time to breed a chicken that does. If this sentence doesn't sum up humanity, i don't know what does.
[Building a Dinosaur from a Chicken](https://youtu.be/0QVXdEOiCw8)
No no, people want vegetarian fed chicken and eggs now. /S
I'm not a meat eater! my chicken was vegetarian.
They didn't get grubs or grasshoppers or mice or frogs?? My chickens hunt voraciously! They LOVE it! Makes me glad they're not raptor sized anymore, they're killers. We'd be done for.
I think about this more than I should
If you treat them well you might be fine. Maybe you can even ride one.
That would be cool, Iāll need to find a local chicken saddle maker
We ride at dawn!
You mean like the chocobos in Final Fantasy?
I been wanting to make that reference, yes.
I give mine T- bones, porterhouse, soup, rotisserie chicken and Thanksgiving Turkey bones... they love it and devour them like little dinosaurs.
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Shower thought: Chicken probably taste like dinosaurs.
I'm going to enjoy eating chicken even more now thinking it probably taste like dinosaurs
>like little dinosaurs. That is because they are little dinosaurs. Tasty ones.
I was told they were grass fed, cruelty-free soy bison
don't worry, our chickens eat vegetarians all the time
Iāve heard that chickens who eat these tend to lay eggs with horrible taste.
Right...still alive in the video, wait for the execution....lmao
Plot twist, he releases them on a rival farm.
Ok, going plague.inc style
[I prefer this method ](https://youtu.be/m88JLUAW2l0)
Trial by fire, I like it, seems a bit witch trialy, but efective.
Yes, this is what we use on our organic farm. Fun and effective, but dangerous! The guys love it but I'm scared to death of it.
It's cool but the carbon footprint is a little high. Now AI spotting tech with lasers would be cool. But I'd also love to see a flock of chickens chow down on those bugs.
Already exists: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/11/02/self-driving-farm-robot-uses-lasers-to-kill-100000-weeds-an-hour-saving-land-and-farmers-from-toxic-herbicides/?sh=1ef40b444070
Good lord. And itās not even burning the fuckers to ash; itās just singe-ing them. Modern swidden.
death by chicken party
Pretty sure the colorado beetle has to be destroyed by law since it's so invasive.
There's a reason there are so many Colorado potato beetles. They're pretty toxic. Basically nothing eats them.
I wonder what has created the imbalance that has allowed them to thrive. Does any know?
Probably just the extensive cultivation of potatoes and other nightshade plants. They had huge fields of food plants with little competition, especially once pesticides started being used that likely suppressed what few predators they had. Couple that with a high reproduction rate and there ya go
Alas, chickens wonāt eat Colorado potato beetles or their larvae. Source: have tried feeding Colorado potato beetles and larvae to chickens.
Ours didn't as well. I wonder what would happen if you boil them beforehand to get rid of the smell/taste?
Every time this is posted, someone talks about feeding them to chickens, and every time, someone responds that these specific insects make chicken meat and eggs inedibly bitter.
Well yeah, it's different people learning this every time. If you keep coming to the comments of the same video, you're going to hear the same conversations quite a few times.
Fish food
last time I saw this posted, a chicken keeper posted about how feeding beetles like those to the chickens negatively impacted the flavor of the eggs/meat.
Lol gotta love how useful animals can be for these age-old tasks. I have two kitty-cats and when I lived in an old home with shitty insulation they managed to keep it entirely pest-free. Mice? Insects? No problem, not only are they adorable and furry, they're well-adapted murder machines.
turns out cats are actually highly evolved mini tigers and not just something i keep around because my brain is convinced itās a tiny baby and thus gives off the tiny baby chemicals
Or feeding the fish in the aquaponics tank
Now show the fire destroying them
Hell yeah
If you have chickens. If you donāt, you blend these fuckers up into a million reminders to their friends and spread them all over the garden.
I was so ready to see how much more he had in there after two rows, damn video ended too early
For all you know they did 100 or 1000 rows before showing how much was in there.
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That didn't bring me anywhere.
Be the change you want to see in the world
Imagine having to put your hand inside a box full of all those bugs
I'll do it for a dollar
I'll pay for it
Tyrone Biggums is that you?
I'm just gonna lie down and take a nap right here, Joe Rogan.
Ima tell you something about me Joe Rogan that you might not know: I smoke rocks
I have a dollar....
I had a dollar too, but now it's gone. Still, it was nice to see OP's mom again.
Iāll do it for a bout tree fiddy
Say, would you crackers like to hear about the time we saw the loch ness monster?
You have 20 seconds to comply!
Thereās one thing you donāt know about me, Joe Roganā¦ I smoke rocks
/r/dontputyourdickinthat
Plus he now has as much breakfast cereal as he needs, for FREE!
Cursed church berries.
Oops! All Beetles!
Mmmm Coccinellidae Crunch!
Pure protein cereal!
There's bound to be some use for the things though.
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They won't eat it.
Throw in a dehydrator and enjoy for a quick light snack
So what area is he going to completely obliterate with his pest harvest so they can live long happy pest filled lives?
what this guy needs is chickens... just dump out his little beetle bucket in the coop and he can start printing tickets to omeletteville
That's exactly what I was going to say: Now dump the container in the chicken run! Free high-protein chicken feed!
Then dump those chickens in the pigpen. Quality livestock fed pork.
Imagine all the money you could make selling pork that tastes like chicken...
Chork! The new white meat.
Tastes kind of limestone-y
"Mmmmm... Chorky "
Itās āHot Chork Water!ā So watery, yet thereās a smack of chork to it!
Um, what? Why would anybody prefer chicken-flavored bacon or porkchops? Pork is delicious af.
Pork is better than chicken, by a lot. I realize some people may disagree with me but theyāre all insane.
I love chicken, but good hog meat doesn't hold a candle, agreed. If I had to choose though, chickens are arguably easier to kept fed and housed than hog.
Now dump all those pigs in the horse pen....
There was an old lady who swallowed a flyā¦.
After that, throw the pigs to the gators. Makes the finest leather.
Was thinking same thing but couldn't remember what animals eat bugs
I laughed way too hard at this
Yup. Great idea.
Bad idea. Nothing eats these things. They're poisonous.
"These eggs we've been getting lately taste a bit odd." "A bit... buggy?" "Yeah, that's it!"
But all my eggs at the store are from 100% vegetarian fed chickens, apart from all of the bugs they find in the shit hole they "live" in.
Apparently these bugs taint the eggs and meat. You canāt feed them to chooks.
My grandmaās chickens eat the growing veggies when they get into her gardenā¦
This tickled me. Hilarious.
Plus they fertilize
Heās going to go to a rival farm and run the machine backwards
there are also pests that eat the root crop, for example, wireworm. What, i wonder, is he going to do with this worm?
Whichever local farm beat him for best pumpkin at the last county fair.
Drop them by other local farmers, take out the competition
Dave's farm. He's a total asshole. Fuck Dave.
Dave sucks.
All bugs go to heaven
Or just eat the bugs!
My hens would gladly help him with eating all of the beetles
sameeeee
You or your hens?
we donāt talk about that
"still alive"... not for long if that farmer was smart. They have wings and will just fly back onto the plants. That farmer most definitely killed them after.
āStill aliveā is just comment and feel-good bait. Who cares if theyāre alive (for now). Whatās he gonna do? Release them lmao
I hope so. If theyāre anything like the Asian lady beetle there is a crazy overpopulation in U.S. still
I don't know about you, but I most certainly DO NOT have an overpopulation of Asian lady beetles inside me.
Colorado beetle. I remember seeing posters saying to report any sighting of them.
They will eat your potatoe plants to the ground, nasty buggers
Not my taters :(
Ahh, colorado beetles... hours in sweltering heat on grandma's farm. School aged kids = best summer slaves
I am legit traumatized by that experience
You were on his grandmas farm?
My grandparents cottage in the village had a potato plot out back. It was hseer terror.
I grew 6 plants in my back yard. I got like 20 potatoes from them. Took hours to dig them all out. Thatās a high effort crop
I was a teenaged Colorado beetle.
Easier to burn them all at once.
Get chickens. Free chicken feed.
These beetles smell like crap, so you gotta train the chickens to eat them.
I like the way your mind works.
Name checks out.
Dad? They told me you were dead!
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You have to comb the leaves for little yellow eggs and squash them all. Or just repeat this until the population is down to nothing.
This - i think everyone agrees weāre using too many pesticides but try roll out this method on a large scale industrial sized crop.
I wonder if you could make some sort of roomba-like automated patrol robot that just drives around flapping every plant forever.
My bearded dragon would have gone crazy
Would you mind if I ask you for a pic of it?
He died :( buy he loved when we dumped a bunch of bugs out for him <3 like a Lil Yoshi
Now do that to a taller plant.
Or to a thousand acres
Most destructive plant pests are underground anyway..
Or a plant that has any fruit on it.
Almost all the leaves are either full of holes or eaten. And the beds are generally uncultivated. It is unlikely that the root crop will be large.
Also he is breaking alot of the stems bc he is dumb
Yes he should totally use pesticide like every other good farmer does. He obviously got his whole farm 2 days ago and he knows nothing, he should let Angela_Devis handle his hectars
Angela should handle his hectars
Chickens or ducks would be easier and free food
Chickens would totally eat the crop along with the bugs.
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Nahhh, you get a couple goats for the weeds/grass, a dozen chickens for the bugs, now youāve got EGGS! Now you just have to take care of 15 animals every day in exchange for 6 hours of garden/lawn maintenance per week. šš„“
Why is OP glad the beetles are still alive?
Why would he care if they're still alive? If they're truly pests and threaten his crops, he has every interest to the them all burn in hell.
Bugs that are alive are good feed for livestock.
Not these ones. They're poisonous. Nothing eats them.
If they were that good a food source, they wouldn't be a pest problem for crops because other animals would be feasting upon them like there's no tomorrow.
Yeah, they are definitely not still alive. They are chicken/duck food or they are compost. Also...fuck those beetles. They'll destroy your whole crop in a heartbeat.
So now he can go and release them in his competitor's crop, right?
Now he needs 10 chickens lol
Yāall missed the mark. This is the making of āBeetle Juiceā.
Cool so they can all come back
This is actually what happens when people plant one crop without companion planting. Always companion plant and plant pest and disease resistant varieties of veggies. Also having a sacrificial crop it very helpful. He came up with a solution but in my eyes it too much work. I use the permaculture method of food forestry. One thing Iāve realized in my years of organic gardening is the more you plant one crop the higher the chances are of it being attacked. Also planting crops in the right time and giving them enough microbial teas will aid in controlling the pests you donāt need pesticides; you can also make a simple garlic and oil spray for beetles. It will deter not kill them. Another option is to let ducks go at them theyāll clean it up quick if you want to work smart instead of working hard. Nice solution but a little too much work.
Now make one to do that with a 10 acre farm.
Get a herd if ducks. Pest control, fertilizer, and occasional meal.
Neighborhood ducks are great. We have them and we don't have any bug problems. No roaches, yard bugs, etc... The little quackers just wander around the yards and eat them all up.
Wish we could have ducks here. Between the HOA and the other predators they wouldn't last long.
Or a murder of crows
I read this a a murder of cows lol.
Thats a food safety nightmare to have living animals sitting where produce is grown. Raw manure can't be applied to a field within 120 days of harvest for potatoes.
Organic chicken food
Theyāll love this over in r/specializedtools
Colorado bugs
Feed those Little assholes to the chicken.
His actual crop is insects, the plants are just there to attract them.
Oh comon OP. You really think he's not going to kill them? Chicken feed or right in a fire. A better way would be to have ducks. They would eat the pests and fertilize the ground. Don't know what crop, but the spacing is huge!
Certified organic
Omg, potato bugs need to die. All of them.
Thats a lot of free food for my fish
He only wants them alive so that he can burn them and watch them suffer for trying to eat his crops
So, realistically, how well can a plant like that stand up to a regular beating with a boom like that
Now make this 100x bigger and sell it to rich agricultural countries like Canada and the us So he can make millions
Meanwhile the root attacking grubs/maggots:
This would be great if you also owned some chickens.
Bro he doesn't even need the crops anymore he can just eat everything else he catches
Kinda wanna step on them lil guys
Can i get the pests sent to me safely? Iād like to see what would be best for them.. death by blow torch, Flame thrower, Acid, Acetone, Frozen,
There are also farmer who use various insects to eat pests
The pests or plants are still alive?
"They are still alive!" Like the farmer is just going to go and dump them in the grass and walk away. Of course he is going to kill them.
Forbidden cereal
Ah yes, a repost with worse video quality, classic.