A guide to how to cultivate crickets

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A guide to how to cultivate crickets

You can see the sequence of steps to start cicada breeding below :

• Determining the exact location of the Cricket Cage
• Construction of cages for breeding cicadas/houses where cicadas are kept
• Making a maintenance box/BOX
• Make a box cover
• Prepare the cricket's living media in the form of egg trays
• The main feed is pokhpan 511 (recommended) chicken broth/concentrate that is refined
• Supporting feed for the early days in the form of young papaya, sweet potato, white mustard (a little). nb. the feed can be supplemented with banana pulp, papaya leaves, cassava leaves, banana leaves, papaya trees after the age of 10 days or more (recommended food)
• Finally, for the addition of the food above there is to get a good result, then just wait for the harvest.

1. Start by determining the exact location of the cricket cage :

To breed cicadas it is best to choose the location and model of the cicada cage that fits the criteria of the cicada's living environment, because as we know cicadas can be considered seasonal animals, it does not mean that they only exist in certain seasons but this is more about the normal life/population only at certain times of the season . For example, many cicadas live in paddy fields where the soil is dry and the air is hot right before the rainy season. For example, out of about 100 plots of rice fields, only about 12-15 plots have a lot of crickets while the others are very rare and almost non-existent. This can also be a lesson that the cricket chooses a suitable location for its life,

This also applies to cricket breeding activities, different places have different results even in the same area. So we must be careful as Cricket Breeders must understand properly about a good living environment for Crickets if the location we have is like this then how should we arrange the enclosure! The point remains in selecting a location/arranging a less suitable location into a location that crickets like. If the Cricket is a seasonal animal then the design of the Cricket Cage is made so that the ambient temperature is the same as in the season of the Cricket in the wild. So that Cultivation activities can be carried out throughout the year and all the time without knowing the alternating seasons. This is PR that is difficult to adapt because we will go against the will of nature, but for the success of Cicada PDF everything can be arranged!

Conditions of the Cricket Environment and the Selection of the Right Location :

• The maintenance location should be quiet, quiet and shady and have good air circulation to adjust the room temperature.
• Look for a location away from crowds or sources of noise such as markets, roads, etc.
• The location should also be far away from human activities such as passers-by and those not related to cultivation activities.
• The room should not be exposed to direct sunlight.
• It's best to stay away from trees to be able to absorb the heat of the sun freely.
• Away from chicken coops or other disturbing animals.
• Try to avoid locations with many predators such as ants, lizards, geckos, and rats but this can still be minimized.

If some of the location conditions as above have been obtained then you have now started a step to run Cricket Farming Business. Next, you just have to make a cage/house for the cicada later. Here is How to Make a Complete Cricket Cage. 

2. Next Make a Cricket Cage/House where Crickets are kept

The way to make a really good and good cricket cage is to build a hut whose area can be adjusted to complete and simple needs, but if you have an empty location, for example, the terrace of the house, a relatively spacious back kitchen or an empty room/room, you can also make it a place cicada breeding as long as it is not damp or inundated with water/flooding when it rains. Well, for cicada breeding cages that are built like huts, they can be in the form of semi-brick wall construction with asbestos or just using bamboo bethek/woven bamboo with plastic tarpaulin on the outside. The purpose is to keep the temperature of the room warm even when it rains. Although it is not sturdy, the most important thing is to be close and avoid the incoming wind, because the wind can affect the life of the crickets that are kept. So the point is that a good cricket cage is in a closed room free from outside wind. However, if there is no suitable location, you can also make a Medium Cricket Cage which is important for the room temperature to keep crickets. So the problem of Cricket Cage Size is not a problem here.

Specifications of the Ideal Cricket Cage/Hut :

• The ground floor is enough plain soil that should not be coated with cast cement as long as it is dry and not too damp.
• The floor is kept high to maintain humidity, especially during the rainy season.
• A semi-brick wall, which is 1.5 meters of brick and on the upper part asbestos and wind2.
• Or a wall in the form of asbestos on the top of the bamboo bethek for the wind.
• The wall can also be made of bamboo and on the outside it is given a plastic tarpaulin as a cover to maintain the temperature of the environment.
• The roof is in the form of asbestos because with asbestos the temperature of the environment will be more stable and remain warm even when it rains.
• The height of the sloping roof is 2.5m - 3.5/4m, not too high so that the room remains warm and not too much wind enters.
• Further, the cage can be arranged according to the plans of each breeder! but work on the criteria as above to make it easier to adapt during the change of season.

3. Preparing / How to Make a Cricket Cage

The Cricket Cage / BOX model is made of plywood/plywood designed like a box but given legs to avoid ants. Later on the legs are given a container in the form of an aqua bottle that has been cut and filled with used oil as a barrier for ants and predators to climb into the cage. Why should used oil? because used oil can be obtained for free at no additional cost and you can find it at the nearest motor/car workshop from your home. This former oil functions as a predator killer that wants to enter and sink into it. If you use water, it does not guarantee that the ants that are trapped in it will die. Sometimes they swim and climb up the cage. But there are also Cardboard Cricket Cages and this method is a new type of Cricket Cage that I have never tried,

How to make a cricket cage starts with finding raw materials in the form of :

• Wood batten/wood to install the ginging which is installed on the peg. This wood is used for the frame of the box/cages for keeping cicadas.
• Triplex/plywood which will later be used for the walls or walls and base of the cage/box
• The nails used to assemble battens and triplex into boxes/cricket cages.
• White/mill cement used to coat the cage walls.
• Brown duct tape that is used as a barrier on the top of the cage so that the crickets cannot escape.
• Waring/fish net is used to cover the top so that predators such as moths and geckos and geckos do not enter the cage when it is open.
• The bamboo used to make the enclosure cover is combined with a plastic tarp.
• Plastic tarpaulin for enclosure cover, this Cricket Cage Model is the standard in our place.

After all the above materials are available, it is time to make a cage/box to keep cicadas. Here we will not discuss how to make a cage in detail because we assume you can already make it.

5. Media For Living In Cricket Cages

In addition to cages for maintenance in the form of boxes made of triplex, other equipment needed for cicada cultivation is the media where the cicadas live, namely TRE, a container of chicken eggs made of a material such as cardboard. Tre functions as a place for crickets to propagate and hide as they do in the wild. The trees are arranged in a preservation box / BOX by stacking them between the legs to form a space between the trees which will later become the living space of the cicadas from hatching to harvesting.

How to arrange tres in the cricket cage

The first thing to do is get the tray itself. Why should you use a used tre? This is to save costs because if you buy a new one, the cost you spend will be very high. To reduce the cost of breeding cicadas , a good alternative is a tray of chicken eggs.

Next, the wood that you have obtained is dried in the hot sun for at least 6 hours if it is hot, it is used to make it easier to clean the dirt and dust that sticks. After drying, the wood is beaten to remove dirt and dust, and stubborn dirt can be cleaned with a used toothbrush. This work must be done before you install the tree for cricket health reasons.

Once the tre is ready, it's time to arrange the tre in the cage. Start by arranging one level evenly enough, if one side does not fit it should be left empty temporarily. Then for the second stack of tres, they are arranged oppositely so that the tres don't come together, so a cavity is formed inside which the cicadas will later use to hide like in the wild. For the empty place, you can give a rather ugly tre bent and arranged in the empty place. You should adapt to the best conditions