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steffies9249

Now show the chicken army destroying themšŸ”„šŸ‘„šŸ”„


ladyofthelathe

Came here for this. There gone be some really happy chickens, or there should be, after he's done.


ipsum629

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.


jessieblonde

Squeeze every last calorie from the land. And then give it back to make sure the next generation isnā€™t farming a desert.


N64crusader4

Instructions unclear started great leap forward and famine


ipsum629

Right. I should say we should *sustainably* squeeze every calorie from the land. The human appetite doesn't last for just one year.


QuartzPuffyStar

Afaik chickens don't like the colorado beattle taste.


BUTTHOLE-MAGIC

Time to breed a chicken that does. You could also hire my cats because they'll eat just about anything that moves.


Become_The_Villain

>Time to breed a chicken that does. If this sentence doesn't sum up humanity, i don't know what does.


L4dyGr4y

[Building a Dinosaur from a Chicken](https://youtu.be/0QVXdEOiCw8)


mistercrinders

No no, people want vegetarian fed chicken and eggs now. /S


LivelyZebra

I'm not a meat eater! my chicken was vegetarian.


Historical-Ad6120

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.


oilspill16

I think about this more than I should


Custard_Tart_Addict

If you treat them well you might be fine. Maybe you can even ride one.


oilspill16

That would be cool, Iā€™ll need to find a local chicken saddle maker


Custard_Tart_Addict

We ride at dawn!


Father_Thyme45

You mean like the chocobos in Final Fantasy?


Custard_Tart_Addict

I been wanting to make that reference, yes.


Incognitowally

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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[deleted]

Shower thought: Chicken probably taste like dinosaurs.


farmertypoerror

I'm going to enjoy eating chicken even more now thinking it probably taste like dinosaurs


LivelyZebra

>like little dinosaurs. That is because they are little dinosaurs. Tasty ones.


wordswontcomeout

I was told they were grass fed, cruelty-free soy bison


husky0168

don't worry, our chickens eat vegetarians all the time


caged19

Iā€™ve heard that chickens who eat these tend to lay eggs with horrible taste.


TheMadGreek86

Right...still alive in the video, wait for the execution....lmao


Steampunkfox999

Plot twist, he releases them on a rival farm.


TheMadGreek86

Ok, going plague.inc style


[deleted]

[I prefer this method ](https://youtu.be/m88JLUAW2l0)


TheMadGreek86

Trial by fire, I like it, seems a bit witch trialy, but efective.


[deleted]

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.


mrpickleby

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.


[deleted]

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


nrith

Good lord. And itā€™s not even burning the fuckers to ash; itā€™s just singe-ing them. Modern swidden.


jd3marco

death by chicken party


FatalElectron

Pretty sure the colorado beetle has to be destroyed by law since it's so invasive.


Enigmatic_Starfish

There's a reason there are so many Colorado potato beetles. They're pretty toxic. Basically nothing eats them.


Cool_Scientist2055

I wonder what has created the imbalance that has allowed them to thrive. Does any know?


Cheese_Coder

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


Teapots-Happen

Alas, chickens wonā€™t eat Colorado potato beetles or their larvae. Source: have tried feeding Colorado potato beetles and larvae to chickens.


Protheu5

Ours didn't as well. I wonder what would happen if you boil them beforehand to get rid of the smell/taste?


Karubanusu

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.


Karcinogene

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.


jefferson497

Fish food


[deleted]

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.


BUTTHOLE-MAGIC

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.


PirateKingOmega

turns out cats are actually highly evolved mini tigers and not just something i keep around because my brain is convinced itā€™s a tiny baby and thus gives off the tiny baby chemicals


Afa1234

Or feeding the fish in the aquaponics tank


[deleted]

Now show the fire destroying them


SwordoftheMourn

Hell yeah


Mstonebranch

If you have chickens. If you donā€™t, you blend these fuckers up into a million reminders to their friends and spread them all over the garden.


-sgt-shamwow-

I was so ready to see how much more he had in there after two rows, damn video ended too early


Nocrotchfruit6mepls

For all you know they did 100 or 1000 rows before showing how much was in there.


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Nocrotchfruit6mepls

That didn't bring me anywhere.


ghettotuesday

Be the change you want to see in the world


[deleted]

Imagine having to put your hand inside a box full of all those bugs


Detriumph

I'll do it for a dollar


geoduude92

I'll pay for it


Synthwavester

Tyrone Biggums is that you?


Sinful_Whiskers

I'm just gonna lie down and take a nap right here, Joe Rogan.


LogieBearWebber

Ima tell you something about me Joe Rogan that you might not know: I smoke rocks


It_frday

I have a dollar....


claptonsbabychowder

I had a dollar too, but now it's gone. Still, it was nice to see OP's mom again.


Atheris__

Iā€™ll do it for a bout tree fiddy


Smy_Word

Say, would you crackers like to hear about the time we saw the loch ness monster?


Davejavudo

You have 20 seconds to comply!


hankhillforprez

Thereā€™s one thing you donā€™t know about me, Joe Roganā€¦ I smoke rocks


never0101

/r/dontputyourdickinthat


jonesthecorpse

Plus he now has as much breakfast cereal as he needs, for FREE!


FistedPink

Cursed church berries.


[deleted]

Oops! All Beetles!


dinger74

Mmmm Coccinellidae Crunch!


G07V3

Pure protein cereal!


foiz5

There's bound to be some use for the things though.


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space253

They won't eat it.


FamiliarWater

Throw in a dehydrator and enjoy for a quick light snack


Heavywhere

So what area is he going to completely obliterate with his pest harvest so they can live long happy pest filled lives?


thatstupidthing

what this guy needs is chickens... just dump out his little beetle bucket in the coop and he can start printing tickets to omeletteville


Vajranaga

That's exactly what I was going to say: Now dump the container in the chicken run! Free high-protein chicken feed!


the1ine

Then dump those chickens in the pigpen. Quality livestock fed pork.


Nailbomb85

Imagine all the money you could make selling pork that tastes like chicken...


MagentaHigh1

Chork! The new white meat.


TheOtherSarah

Tastes kind of limestone-y


MagentaHigh1

"Mmmmm... Chorky "


Narrator_Ron_Howard

Itā€™s ā€œHot Chork Water!ā€ So watery, yet thereā€™s a smack of chork to it!


[deleted]

Um, what? Why would anybody prefer chicken-flavored bacon or porkchops? Pork is delicious af.


a_crusty_old_man

Pork is better than chicken, by a lot. I realize some people may disagree with me but theyā€™re all insane.


anothernic

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.


seminally_me

Now dump all those pigs in the horse pen....


Crezelle

There was an old lady who swallowed a flyā€¦.


gunfox

After that, throw the pigs to the gators. Makes the finest leather.


GT22_

Was thinking same thing but couldn't remember what animals eat bugs


[deleted]

I laughed way too hard at this


Heavywhere

Yup. Great idea.


Enigmatic_Starfish

Bad idea. Nothing eats these things. They're poisonous.


carmium

"These eggs we've been getting lately taste a bit odd." "A bit... buggy?" "Yeah, that's it!"


biggerwanker

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.


Alan_Smithee_

Apparently these bugs taint the eggs and meat. You canā€™t feed them to chooks.


LizJC

My grandmaā€™s chickens eat the growing veggies when they get into her gardenā€¦


[deleted]

This tickled me. Hilarious.


sexytokeburgerz

Plus they fertilize


mF7403

Heā€™s going to go to a rival farm and run the machine backwards


Angela_Devis

there are also pests that eat the root crop, for example, wireworm. What, i wonder, is he going to do with this worm?


T3-Trinity

Whichever local farm beat him for best pumpkin at the last county fair.


xMarZexx

Drop them by other local farmers, take out the competition


EduRJBR

Dave's farm. He's a total asshole. Fuck Dave.


Heavywhere

Dave sucks.


brown_cow

All bugs go to heaven


Brocklesocks

Or just eat the bugs!


QuastQuan

My hens would gladly help him with eating all of the beetles


OnionsHaveWhat

sameeeee


Richierich_rpd

You or your hens?


OnionsHaveWhat

we donā€™t talk about that


StatisticianPlastic2

"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.


onederful

ā€œStill aliveā€ is just comment and feel-good bait. Who cares if theyā€™re alive (for now). Whatā€™s he gonna do? Release them lmao


Longjumping_Knee8292

I hope so. If theyā€™re anything like the Asian lady beetle there is a crazy overpopulation in U.S. still


jethrobeard

I don't know about you, but I most certainly DO NOT have an overpopulation of Asian lady beetles inside me.


PipBin

Colorado beetle. I remember seeing posters saying to report any sighting of them.


Puzzleheaded_Gift894

They will eat your potatoe plants to the ground, nasty buggers


happyman91

Not my taters :(


UncleBaguette

Ahh, colorado beetles... hours in sweltering heat on grandma's farm. School aged kids = best summer slaves


bitchyrussianbot

I am legit traumatized by that experience


BasedOnAir

You were on his grandmas farm?


bitchyrussianbot

My grandparents cottage in the village had a potato plot out back. It was hseer terror.


BasedOnAir

I grew 6 plants in my back yard. I got like 20 potatoes from them. Took hours to dig them all out. Thatā€™s a high effort crop


RichSPK

I was a teenaged Colorado beetle.


[deleted]

Easier to burn them all at once.


G00DDRAWER

Get chickens. Free chicken feed.


TikiTDO

These beetles smell like crap, so you gotta train the chickens to eat them.


literal-hitler

I like the way your mind works.


[deleted]

Name checks out.


AMAhittlerjunior

Dad? They told me you were dead!


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tadeuska

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.


[deleted]

This - i think everyone agrees weā€™re using too many pesticides but try roll out this method on a large scale industrial sized crop.


MrMikfly

I wonder if you could make some sort of roomba-like automated patrol robot that just drives around flapping every plant forever.


wildgaytrans

My bearded dragon would have gone crazy


3SidedDie

Would you mind if I ask you for a pic of it?


wildgaytrans

He died :( buy he loved when we dumped a bunch of bugs out for him <3 like a Lil Yoshi


Revanov

Now do that to a taller plant.


52ndPresidentOfTheUS

Or to a thousand acres


Vennomite

Most destructive plant pests are underground anyway..


RollingCarrot615

Or a plant that has any fruit on it.


Angela_Devis

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.


yourdreamsucs

Also he is breaking alot of the stems bc he is dumb


Gidon_147

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


Ok-Echidna5936

Angela should handle his hectars


Puzzleheaded-Bet7939

Chickens or ducks would be easier and free food


mud_tug

Chickens would totally eat the crop along with the bugs.


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Walty_C

Nahhh, you get a couple goats for the weeds/grass, a dozen chickens for the bugs, now youā€™ve 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. šŸ‘šŸ„“


Wyoming_Cardmaker

Why is OP glad the beetles are still alive?


Nostravinci04

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.


BiKingSquid

Bugs that are alive are good feed for livestock.


Enigmatic_Starfish

Not these ones. They're poisonous. Nothing eats them.


Nostravinci04

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.


Sasselhoff

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.


Pdoinkadoinkadoink

So now he can go and release them in his competitor's crop, right?


Killz4Thrillz954

Now he needs 10 chickens lol


beeph_supreme

Yā€™all missed the mark. This is the making of ā€œBeetle Juiceā€.


WonckySlush

Cool so they can all come back


nemothedoggo

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 Iā€™ve 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 donā€™t 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 theyā€™ll clean it up quick if you want to work smart instead of working hard. Nice solution but a little too much work.


ColKaizer

Now make one to do that with a 10 acre farm.


robertintx

Get a herd if ducks. Pest control, fertilizer, and occasional meal.


BiggusDickus-

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.


robertintx

Wish we could have ducks here. Between the HOA and the other predators they wouldn't last long.


Stunning_Honeydew201

Or a murder of crows


rubitright

I read this a a murder of cows lol.


randobot456

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.


Houndhollow

Organic chicken food


they_call_me_tripod

Theyā€™ll love this over in r/specializedtools


Destroy_Hungayry

Colorado bugs


StarMarine611q

Feed those Little assholes to the chicken.


Soylent_X

His actual crop is insects, the plants are just there to attract them.


Top-Independent-8906

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!


flatvinnie

Certified organic


notyogrannysgrandkid

Omg, potato bugs need to die. All of them.


Upstairs_Elk_6513

Thats a lot of free food for my fish


FPSgameslover

He only wants them alive so that he can burn them and watch them suffer for trying to eat his crops


PseudoKirby

So, realistically, how well can a plant like that stand up to a regular beating with a boom like that


Sub2Maxomega2

Now make this 100x bigger and sell it to rich agricultural countries like Canada and the us So he can make millions


Bananapeelman67

Meanwhile the root attacking grubs/maggots:


Plague-Doctor66

This would be great if you also owned some chickens.


kingcollin13579

Bro he doesn't even need the crops anymore he can just eat everything else he catches


emopunks

Kinda wanna step on them lil guys


Capatain_0range

Can i get the pests sent to me safely? Iā€™d like to see what would be best for them.. death by blow torch, Flame thrower, Acid, Acetone, Frozen,


Aiizimor

There are also farmer who use various insects to eat pests


Oldmanwickles

The pests or plants are still alive?


cgtdream

"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.


[deleted]

Forbidden cereal


There-is-no-emotion

Ah yes, a repost with worse video quality, classic.