Cricket Egg Laying and Incubation - Intro to Cricket Farming Video 5

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In part 5 of our Introduction to Cricket Farming video series, we discuss how to set up a substrate to ensure lots of cricket eggs. We then discuss how to ensure your eggs incubate effectively.

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@yaqdanz6085 3 жыл бұрын

better than the 25 vids I saw on. the subject. u went deep . cheers

@sirwhiskers679 5 жыл бұрын

dude don't be so nervous, they're just crickets ;) keep it up!

@cowabungaweekly3290 3 жыл бұрын

Dude don’t be nervous you did a great video!

@jamestomerlin3744 4 жыл бұрын

Sorry for being late to the party but I have to say that is a really cool logo for cricket farming! Thank you for taking the time to share this info.

@joshblick 4 жыл бұрын

I breed springtails as well as crickets and will sprinkle some in with the crickets to work on the mold (if any) around the soil.

@ceidelberg 2 жыл бұрын

Are you still in the cricket business? Was looking for advice. Thx

@joshblick 2 жыл бұрын

@@ceidelberg Now it's more of a hobby. I got into livestock and pretty much dropped the small critters but I still may be able to help.

@ceidelberg 2 жыл бұрын

@@joshblick Is it profitable for a small back yard farm these days?

@joshblick 2 жыл бұрын

@@ceidelberg Not unless you have a bunch of local bait shops that don't already have people for some strange reason. The short answer is no. Sorry.

@afalz06 8 ай бұрын

@@joshblickDid you ever try out online selling for live crickets?

@spencerkooyman13 2 жыл бұрын

Best video I've found yet! Very informative, thank you very much!

@paulcattrone3196 6 жыл бұрын

Great insight on the 24 hour egg laying time

@the_rat7363 6 жыл бұрын

Great video very helpful I got adult crickets and they have laid sooo many eggs I’ve got to get a new tub, THANKS😀

@jamiedruby9573 4 жыл бұрын

Hey thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos this is something that I really need and I’ve got to tell you that you have a nice choice of sweaters can’t wait to see what the next one’s going to look like :-)

@kimberlymarshall5674 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome job explaining about the care of crickets....Thank you

@56onfilm 6 жыл бұрын

Great video with lots of good info. Thanks for posting.

@2baSelkie 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you that was really so helpful. I put vermiculite down with a heat mat underneath. I put in earth containers, well the plastic square tubs they came in.Yes the females used the earth and I waited and waited.... Then when I noticed I had very few adults left I also noticed I had pin head size babies In fact now I have 3 large plastic containers with lots of tiny babies, duh :( I put in fruit a ground mix of quaker oates cat food, and a little milk powder and crumbled fish food. Now big problem, water ! I only have one exto terra plastic jar and base with a grill which I put cotton wool making sure it was on the other side of the little grill at the top. This seems the best solution as these wee beasties are suicidal. I even found a large dead female inside the jar. She must have pulled back the cotten wool and somehow managed to squeeze herself in there. It still is the best solution for me right now, but to buy a couple is not too expensive but the postage is 40 + euros !!!!! No way can I afford that. This by the way is all because I saved some tiny frogs and toads just before Christmas :) What should I do? with this bedding there is no smell from the crickets, they are easy to clean and I give them clen toilet rolls and egg cartons. I just cannot work out how to get the babies all together. Before when I have saved lizards I managed to breed crickets, but I did not use anything over the bottom of the tray. Even cleaning a couple of times a day there was still an odour. These little insects may be tiny but oh boy I have not managed to seperate one yet, they move so fast ! Help. Fran

@saltyslug. 5 жыл бұрын

Great Job! Very informative

@LGNT 5 жыл бұрын

Hey guys watching from Vietnam good job pro

@bradseidt1 3 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to keep cricket eggs too hot? I'm only asking because I live I live in florida and it's summer time and I've been keeping my eggs in the garage. Normal Temps right now are mid 90's during the day and 80's at night.

@mikewalters4994 Жыл бұрын

Great Video, thanks for sharing !!

@adiinbar993 3 жыл бұрын

10:54 It's not clear, are you saying that they won't hatch _while_ they're dry, or that if the ever dry out even once for a few hours then they die and won't hatch even if they're kept moist after that?

@the_rat7363 6 жыл бұрын

Great vid very helpful😀

@henryperez6972 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very helpful

@OLUSHOLAADEGUN 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for this piece of information however i do have reservations concerning incubation. @90⁰c isnt this too high for incubation? I assumed 30⁰c is sufficient for egg incubation.

@58Kym 6 жыл бұрын

I use vermiculite for egg laying.

@dominykasaleknavicius3155 6 жыл бұрын

Hello Craft Crickets, thanks for informative "Intro to Cricket Farming" videos. Do you measure accurate amount (grams or milliliters) of pinheads you release in to a bin?

@craftcrickets847 6 жыл бұрын

We do 25ml for the 30 gallon bin. We trialed and derided about 1,000 different amounts until we settled on that. The amount you should do very much depends on your setup.

@juleesandgren2504 2 жыл бұрын

How do you keep the incubator from collecting condensation which the hatchlings can drown in? I'm using an incubator that I built using a medium size ice chest and a digital thermostat and heat element. I have installed an additional fan which will control the condensation but it rapidly dries out the substrate. However when the fan is off the condensation rapidly builds and I start loosing hatchlings. Thank you for any advice you may have.

@afalz06 8 ай бұрын

Did you find a solution?

@kls9710 6 жыл бұрын

I am in Florence. TY for the info

@coreyblunt1147 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info, If pinheads are hatched can I rehydrate the soil if it dries without killing them

@bookworm8182 2 жыл бұрын

I user coconut fiber and soil I see the eggs so I covered my cricets with the top of the plastic cover and habe it wrapped in a heating pad it's been 4 days will they hatcg

@myartnft2840 Жыл бұрын

how long should I put the bowl of soil in the microwave?

@irThumper 5 жыл бұрын

My problem isn't fruit flies but fungus gnats laying eggs in my cricket breeding soil. Is it safe to use Gnatrol/BTI (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) in the egg laying tray, or will this be harmful to the baby crickets when they hatch?

@cattfishing 4 жыл бұрын

From what I know is the bt is more worm or grub/larvae focused. But I can't be sure. Fungus gnats are after the fungus/mold and aren't really known for being carnivorous. (That I know of) they wont be competing for food either so, they shouldn't be an issue as far as threatening to your crickets. The fn larvae will eat any mold, or decaying matter and thrive in very moist conditions. Which makes it a bit hard to control them by climate control. I use bt for mosquitoes and fn and have a water can that I dilute the bt and water my plants and fill dishes etc. I also water the substrate in my toads enclosure where crickets have laid eggs and hatched just fine. But there could be a number of reasons why they weren't affected. So I would always rather be safe than sorry.

@ohkaykaykayla2891 3 жыл бұрын

Weird question but I have adult bandit crickets and the regular like brown house type crickets. Can I breed them together? Or no?

@johnweinberg4625 6 жыл бұрын

Try jiffy pellets , i have had issues in the past with unwanted soil dwellers. Never use anything that is miracle gro brand!

@forreal7568 6 жыл бұрын

Have you tried to use vermiculite as lay medium?

@2baSelkie 5 жыл бұрын

Yes ! well no, rather not as I had planned things, but oh yes it works :) Comment at the topFran Not sure why they have used my pass word?!?

@sam-ch9mz 6 жыл бұрын

Do eggs need and uv or light, or is it just heat and moist?

@jenniferjohnson5648 5 жыл бұрын

It need heat and moist every week take the egg laying thing out a replace with a new and take the old on and put it in a different one so the adults won't eat them

@aaronphibianexotics1408 5 жыл бұрын

You moist the soil everyday to make sure it doesn’t dry up. Don’t need UVB, just need a light that’ll give out heat

@movkkk 3 жыл бұрын

Is there no ads on your videos?

@jonghyunlover10000 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, don't be nervous, otherwise you get a big gulp and say things like baughten

@incredibleedibledez 2 жыл бұрын

Ugh how do I keep the flipping fruit flies outta my bins?! I've been sick with covid all week and my husband was taking care of the bins, I only have 2. I usually transfer them to one bins every couple of days then alternate as I clean them. I know it sounds tedious but we're using a corner of our reptile room to breed them and they stink like shit lol I opened the bin tonight & the fruit flies and larva(flipping maggots) are everywhere. How do I keep them out of my bins?! I've got traps spaced around but because we keep the door open a lot in the summer we deal with pests.

@omarcano9097 5 жыл бұрын

hi, thanks for the videos, did you put any kind of food on the earth? thank you

@mill1627 5 жыл бұрын

I don't put any food in the substrate. I keep the food in a separate space.

@user-tp7ih9wo2q 2 жыл бұрын

Hello. I have questions: I have one kilogram how days for arrival 10 kg/day? See you later.

@ceidelberg 2 жыл бұрын

Are you still in the cricket business?

@goldpieceleo 6 жыл бұрын

How do you throw the old egg crates and used laying substrate? It might have some cricket egg that can hatch when expose into moisture then eventually become invasive. I got around 100 crickets now from my 10 crickets.

@craftcrickets847 6 жыл бұрын

I have my crickets hatch in a separate place from the old, adult crickets. The new crickets are placed in a bin with new, clean egg cartons. For the older crickets, I typically only replace the egg cartons after I have harvested all the adults. But if moisture forms and make the cartons unusable, I will remove the crickets from the egg cartons (oftentimes the crickets will remove themselves from the moist egg cartons) by hitting the cartons against the side of the bin, and then replace the egg cartons with new ones. I'm not sure if I answered your question, but please clarify if you were asking something else.

@goldpieceleo 6 жыл бұрын

Craft Crickets thank you for your reply. What I mean to ask is how do you dispose the old egg cartoon which may contain cricket eggs that may hatch if the egg cartoons are expose to moisture? Do you burn it or just throw it away in a garbage can? I don't want newly hatch crickets running loose in my house. As for my newly hatched crickets I put them in a container where they can grow before I transfer them into a bin.

@craftcrickets847 6 жыл бұрын

Good question. For all my used egg cartons, I compost them. They work as great compost, especially as the cricket frass adds nitrogen to the compost. I mix my egg cartons in with my compost, and they break down fairly quickly. I imagine the eggs either get destroyed or eaten by other things that inhabit my compost piles. However, I live in a different climate from you where I don't think these eggs would hatch on their own. I have never seen baby crickets hatch in my compost. Plus, my crickets aren't invasive where I live, so it wouldn't be an issue. Sorry I don't have a great answer. Perhaps somebody else on here has an idea?

@goldpieceleo 6 жыл бұрын

Craft Crickets nope, you've been a great help man. Many of my new cricket knowledge came from you. How to dramatically increase your crickets and all the new stuffs about cricket farming that I never knew before came from you. Hahaha! Maybe I'll just use them to feed my animals but now I am confident to say that my crickets are safe for human consumption all because of those new things that I learned from you. Thank you very much.

@cattfishing 4 жыл бұрын

@@craftcrickets847 I know this is really old, but I think he meant to ask how he can dispose of the egg laying soil or substrate when all the laying and hatching has been done. He may be worried about the possibility of starting an infestation of non native species into the environment or possibly just his house.lol

@goldpieceleo 6 жыл бұрын

I have 10 pieces of black crickets to feed my taratulas. Only 1 of them is a confirmed male because most of them are females as they have a ovipositor even the juveniles. Now that I had watched your videos I am torn between feeding them to my animals or just use them to make a colony. My question is how many crickets do I need to start up a colony? I'am not decided yet since I have a mealworn colony and I'm planning to buy a dubia to start up a colony maybe a week or so. What I don't like about crickets are they are not as nutritious as other feeder insect like roaches and superworms, they are very smelly, they have a short lifespan, they are noisy and most of all they kill each other.

@craftcrickets847 6 жыл бұрын

You could start a colony with just one or two males, but you have little room for errors inevitable with the learning curve. If you wanted to rely on having crickets all the time, I’d buy another bag from the pet store to start with, ensuring you have enough males. The crickets shouldn’t smell if you keep their environment dry and clean though with excessive moisture they can create a horrendous odor. Yep, the nutrition isn’t quite as good as other feeder insects. If you are already successful maintaining a colony of other feeder insects it may not be worth the extra complexity to have crickets as well. I would go with whatever your tarantulas prefer.

@goldpieceleo 6 жыл бұрын

Craft Crickets oh, thank you. It's good to have a variety of food every now and then because it helps tarantulas to learn how to hunt a variety of prey giving them mental stimuli and making them more flexible when it comes to food. This is based on my experience on keeping tarantulas that if you give only one kind of prey item to a tarantula sometimes if you introduce another prey item they sometimes consider it as a threat, instead of eating it they'll start throwing threat posture towards it. Thank you very much for the reply. One more question, how long it will take to for a cricket egg to hatch and how long will it take for a newly born nymps to get to maturity? I live in a tropical country in Asia. The temperature here is 77.9 to 82.9 degrees Fahrenheit and the humidity is around 71% to 85%.

@craftcrickets847 6 жыл бұрын

The quickest they can incubate is in 9 days. At your temp and humidity, I'd expect it to take about 14 days. As for getting to maturity, the quickest is about 6 weeks. At your temp and humidity, I"d expect it take about 10 weeks. Thanks for sharing the info about the having variety of food for the tarantulas. Very good to know as I get questions like yours from time to time. Thanks!

@goldpieceleo 6 жыл бұрын

Craft Crickets thank you very much for your help. I decided to give a laying substrate to the crickets since I saw them trying to lay their eggs on the carrot and in the chicken feed. I hope to see nymps in 2 weeks. I'll get more crickets because I read that inbreeding will make the males sexually unproductive and I'll make them a bigger enclosure since I only keep them in a topper ware for now. Thank you.

@stevestanley5183 6 жыл бұрын

do you keep the heat lamp on 24 hours?

@craftcrickets847 6 жыл бұрын

When it is cold I have been keeping it on 24 hours. It may be preferable to give them some dark time and light time, but because it is so cold right now, I'd rather make sure they have heat than darkness. In my commercial farm I had it lit naturally (i.e. light during the day and dark at night).

@herro51 6 жыл бұрын

Are you using Acheta Domestica?

@craftcrickets847 6 жыл бұрын

Gryllodes sigillatus

@herro51 6 жыл бұрын

Craft Crickets all other places ive been researching suggest the acheta domesticus. Do you have a video discussing the differences? Love your channel!!

@craftcrickets847 6 жыл бұрын

Video 2 of the Intro to Cricket Farming series discusses some pros and cons of each. Glad you like the channel!