Tips breeding Crickets

Tips breeding Crickets

Today during the economic crisis in Indonesia, the cultivation of crickets (Liogryllus bimaculatus) is very intense, as well as the seminars are held in many cities. This activity is mostly done considering the time required for egg production will be traded only takes ± 2-4 weeks. As for the production of crickets to feed the fish and birds as well as to take the flour, requires only 2-3 months.

Female crickets have a life cycle of ± 3 months, while males less than 3 months. In the life cycle of the female crickets are able to produce more than 500 eggs.
The spread of cricket in Indonesia is uneven, but for big cities that many fans of birds and fish, was initially very dependent to consume crickets that comes from nature, decreasing over time with the crickets caught from the wild will begin to try to cultivate nature and breeding crickets intensively and is mostly done business in the city-island of Java.

Expressed in front of that for now, the center is a cricket farm big city island of Java because of the needs of the crickets very much. While temporarily outside the island of Java is still widely found in nature, so not many ranches crickets.

There are more than 100 species of crickets found in Indonesia. Type the many cultivated at the moment is Gryllus Mitratus and Gryllus testaclus, to feed the fish and birds. Both types can be distinguished from the shape of her body, which Gryllus his Mitratus wipositor shorter Gryllus Mitratus besides that has a white line on the edge of the wing backs, and a calm appearance.

Fresh crickets well known to feed birds sang as poksay, kacer and hwambie and to feed the fish, good for the growth of shrimp and catfish in the form of flour.

LOCATION
1. Location of cultivation must be calm, cool and get good air circulation.
2. Location away from noise sources such as markets, roads and so forth.
3. Not affected by direct sunlight or excessive.

TECHNICAL GUIDELINES FOR CULTIVATION
According to Farry, 1999, cattle crickets are the types of business that if not planned carefully, will greatly harm the business. There are several steps that need to be done in the cattle business plan for the cricket, which is drafting a schedule of activities, determine the organizational structure, determine job specifications, determine the physical facilities, planning methods of the market approach, preparing a budget, looking for sources of funding and implementing the cattle business crickets.

1. Preparation Facility and Equipment

Because the usual crickets at night to day activities, then do not put a cricket cage under the sun, so place a shady place and the dark. Should be avoided by people passing by even more for nesting cages. To maintain stable conditions close to their habitats, the walls smeared with mud cage and given rice leaves like banana leaves, leaves arise, breadfruit leaves and other leaves in addition to hiding places to avoid cannibalism of the nature of the crickets. The wall of the inner cage should be lined with duct tape so that the cricket tour does not creep up until out of the cage. Blame one side wall of the cage created a screen-covered holes to provide good air circulation and to keep the humidity stable. To measure the maintenance box of crickets, there is no standard size. What matters in accordance with the requirements for the population of each cage of crickets.

According to field monitoring results and experiences. breeders, the stable form is usually rectangular with a height of 30-50 cm, 60-100 cm wide while the 120-200 cm in length. Box (cage) can be made from wood with a framework of rafters, but to mengirit costs, then the walls of the cage can be made from plywood. Cages are usually made compound, and the bottom cage has at least four foot buffer. To avoid interruption of animals such as ants, mice, lizards and other insects, the four foot cages covered bowl containing water, kerosene or even vaseline (fat) that dilumurkan ditiap foot buffer.
2. Seedling
1. 1) Selection of Seeds and Candidate Master
Seeds needed to grow up to be healthy, not sick, not disabled (whiskers or a broken leg) and the age of about 10-20 days. Prospective parent is a good crickets crickets from the wild catch, because it usually has a resistance body better. Even if the mother can not catch from the wild, then the parent can be purchased from the farm. While the father worked from nature, because it is more aggressive.
The characteristics indukan, dams, and the male parent is as follows:
a. Indukan:
whiskers (antenna) is still long and full. §
hind legs are still incomplete. §
can jump to the quick, agile and look healthy. §
body and fur shiny black crickets. §
choose a great parent. §
view chose crickets liquid issuing from the mouth and anus, if held. §
b. The father:
always chirping sound. §
surface of the wing or back rough and bumpy. §
not have the tail ovipositor. §
Mother: §
not chirp. §
back or wing surface smooth. §
There ovipositor under the tail to remove the eggs. §
2. Seed treatment and Candidate Master
Treatment of crickets that have been removed from the box 10-day-old hatchery should really be noted and controlled the food, because the very rapid growth. So if the food is less, then the chicks will be cannibal crickets eat the weak chicks. In addition to well controlled humidity and animal nuisance, namely, ants, mice, lizard, cockroaches and spiders. To reduce the cannibal nature of crickets, the food should not be less. Food is usually provided include yams, cassava, vegetables and herbs, and given alternately every day.
3. Pemuliabiakan System
Until now the known breeding crickets is to marry the father and mother, while there is a natural spawning and there is also a way of delivery. But the risk of delivery by the female parent most likely to die and the eggs obtained uneven tetasnya parents so low power.
4. Reproduction and Marriage
Parent can produce eggs that are high-power tetasnya ± 80-90% when given highly nutritious food. Each breeder has ingredients specifically given to the parent crickets include: corn bran, rice items, fish flour, egg yolk duck, kalk and sometimes supplemented with vitamins.
Besides the stable atmosphere should be similar to the wild habitat, barn walls covered with clay, white cement and wood glue, and given the dry leaves like banana leaves, leaves of teak, sugarcane leaves and wood shavings.
Crickets usually lay their eggs dipasir or soil. So in a special cage laying prepared sand media included a small dipiring. Comparison between females and males 10: 2, in order to obtain the eggs are high tetasnya. If the crickets are finished laying about 5 days, then the egg is separated from its mother so the parent does not eat later in bagiab cage sprayed with an antibiotic solution (cotrymoxale). In addition to natural nesting, nesting can also be done in sections. But the shortcomings are not uniformly mature eggs (hatching power).
5. Parturition
Before hatching eggs should be prepared in advance of the cage in the cage is covered with sand, chaff or a soft towel. In one cage enough to put 1-2 teaspoons of the egg where the egg one teaspoon of 1500-2000 is estimated to range eggs. During this process the egg color will change color from clear to cloudy look. Humidity should be kept with the egg spraying eggs every day and eggs should dibulak-back to avoid mildew. Eggs will hatch about 4-6 days evenly.
3. Maintenance
1. Sanitation and Preventive Action
As has been described above that in the management of this farm sanitation crickets are a very important issue. To avoid any substances or toxic materials contained in the cage, then before the cricket is put into the cage, there should first be cleaned cages and covered with mud fields. To prevent pests, then the cage was given legs and each leg of each is put into cans filled with water.
2. Disease Control
Jangkrikn magnification selected for the healthy crickets and separated from the sick. Animal feed should be kept in order not to get moldy because it can become a den of disease. A pen is kept moist but not wet, because wet cage can also cause disease.
3. Livestock Care
Treatment besides crickets stable conditions that must be cultivated together with the natural habitat, which is moist and dark, it is no less important is adequate nutrition so as not eating each other (cannibalism).
4. FEEDING
1-10 day old chicks given Voor (chicken food) made darikacang soybeans, brown rice and mashed dry corn. After this vase, puppies can begin to be feed vegetables besides corn and squash. As for the crickets that are paired, given the feed include: cabbage, carrot, baby corn, peanut, cassava leaves and cucumber for a high water content. Even some that add the feed to livestock other anatar forecasting: corn bran, fish flour, black sticky rice, duck egg yolk, kalk and some vitamins are crushed and mixed into one.
5. Maintenance Cage
The water contained in a tin shed legs, replaced every 2 days and the humidity must be considered stable and tried to be dangerous not to enter the cage.
7. PEST AND DISEASE
1. Diseases, Pests and Causes
Until now has not found a serious disease attacking crickets. Usually the disease is caused by the fungus attached to the leaves. While often annoying pests are ants or crickets, small insects, mice, lizard, frogs and snakes.
2. Attack Prevention Pests and Diseases
To avoid infection by the fungus, the food and shelter leaves contaminated mushrooms should be discarded. Crickets pest can be overcome by making by making cans filled with water, kerosene or rubbing fat on foot cage.
3. Giving Vaccinations and Drugs
For the time being due to pests and diseases can be resolved prefentif, crickets, the disease can be suppressed minimum. So the administration of drugs and vaccination is not required.
8. HARVEST
1. Main results
Breeder crickets can get 2 (two) main results of equal economic value, namely: eggs that can be sold to other breeders and adult crickets to feed the birds and fish and crickets for flour.
2. Catching
Eggs that have been placed by the parent on the sand or soil medium, filtered and placed on a wet cloth media. For each of the folds of a wet cloth can be placed eggs 1 teaspoon of the later to be traded. As for crickets mature age 40-55 days or 55-70 days in which the new body begins to grow wings, captured by hand and entered the shelter place for the sale.