Just got it up and running, the shrimp market is nothing compared to this. There's so many people who will buy crickets you have no idea.
>pet stores
>pet owners
>idiot liberals who eat crickets
>food companies who use them
>fish/reptile farmers use them for food.
Hoping to expand soon to my next phase which is a 4'x10' enclosure.
Enjoy your pennies retard, I'm farming termites by the millions and selling them to shady pest control companies by the pound so they can infest entire neighborhoods. Only problem is washing all this dirty termite money that won't stop rolling in.
Nice desu. What do they eat? Are those carrots?
Are you faggots actually farming arthropods, or is this some kind of meme/metaphor? Either way is fine, really. I'm just wondering.
nice crickets will eat literal garbage so just dump all your household waste in there for them to eat
Carrots and lettuce. Need to get their feed costs down when I expand. Currently working on getting scrap bins from local restaurants.
You should start planting lettuce/carrots/veggies/etc. even if its just in pots, really get those costs down.
I'm working with veggie gardening too. Thing is I can make more just selling the veggies to people.
how do you cope with the noise?
Do you have to touch them? Can you put a blanket over the box so you don't have to look at them?
I want to believe
Oh,I heard it's risky bcs if you get a fungus infection, it wipes your stock.
Have fun watching them escape and crawl around your home infesting every orifice and reproducing until you are buried in crickets
Literally breeding cockroaches
this. crickets are literally impossible to contain. they will get in your closets and reee all night long
waxworms are the thinking mans insect farm
farming roaches is the easiest thing ever
Get plastic box
Buy a couple roaches
Close, with air holes but so they cant escape
Put a blanket over it/ put it in the closet
as long as its warm they will fucking breed like africans
literally x1000 in 3 months
It's 95% memes and 5% people actually doing this stuff. That's my best estimate anyway.
I can't imagine any pet stores who don't have their own cricket mills in the back. Every one I've ever worked at or been in had their own crickets, mealworms, brine shrimp, and rats/mice. Guppies too.
Thats a small part of the overall market. The cricket market is literally exploding with stupid hipsters and liberals that eat cricket products.
Well, if you want to profit off that insanity, go for it. I can't imagine it will last, it's a fad. But it's pretty cheap as an investment. But again, I wouldn't count on much income from pet stores, they tend to grow their own.
Wait I'm confused, how is eating crickets "stupid"? Being too much of a pussy to eat a bug doesn't make anyone who likes clean, efficient protein "stupid"
I live in a culture where literally every food type on the planet is available to me, at a reasonable cost. I don't need to eat insects. They don't taste good, and their nutritional value is negligible compared to the healthy foods our bodies have evolved to thrive off of.
Hipsters eating insects is literal virtue signaling, it's an offshoot of the ridiculous vegan movement.
Why not roaches my dude?
Remember sink threads user?
Fuck, thanks for the laugh. Have a (You).
Roaches are incredible. They are smart, fast, durable, efficient, and despite common belief very clean (while bred in captivity properly).
Nymphs are a valuable commodity for feeding reptiles, mammals, and larger arthropods.
This way the construction industry benefits from it too.
>compared to the healthy foods our bodies have evolved to thrive off of.
Lol, humans are omnivores, little buddy. We can thrive off anything. Also you seem to be implying that bugs aren't healthy to eat just because you're too much of a sissy girl to eat >an icky bug, ewwwwwww
That, or you don't wanna eat it because Teh Liberuhls do it which is far, far sadder
Don't use lol here fag, it's painful to read.
lol this fuckin snowflake go back to tumblr
Yeah sorry I usually use XD but it slipped :/
And you have proven our point for us.
I'm sold. ALL in.
>not making cricket burgers to sell to the chinese and africans
In Soviet Russia, crickets farm you
Kind of like cryptocurrency
ya I remember. Boomer
Reeee all night long, holy shit man, I’m fucking dying over here
dude i like you