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How Fish Meal is Made Fishmeal has been around forever! At the beginning of the fourteenth century a primitive form of fish meal is mentioned in the Travels of Marco Polo "They accustom their cattle, cows, sheep, camels and horses to feed upon dried fish, which being regularly served to them, they eat without any sign of dislike." The industrialization of fishmeal started as early as 800 AD when the utilization of herring as an industrial raw material took off in Norway. They had a very primitive process of pressing the oil out of herring by means of wooden boards...

As you're probably well aware the Black Solider Fly are packed with good nutrition and essential vitamin ratios. What you may not know is the nutritional content of these bugs depend on what they are feed and raised on. Most Black Solider Fly as of now are grow up on a starter of chicken feed then moved to spent breweries grains. This gives a little inconsistency to the variation in nutrients although these Black Solider Fly are still very high in nutrients. Furthermore some Black Solider Fly are now raised on food scraps from restaurants and waste from agriculture plants...

So, you have just bought your first Black Soldier Fly. Now you may be wondering what to do now. Sure, I can feed them to my animal, but they can only eat so much everyday right? What if they start turning into flies? Are you prepared to have your house swarming with flies? Of course not! That's why there is a handy care sheet that comes with a starter pack of 1000 Black Soldier Fly larvae on Amazon from Josh Frogs. The basic care guide provides information on storage, temperature, humidity and how to properly feed them to your pet....

It is important when rearing Black Soldier Fly to know how many females you have in a cage. A great quote by Peter Drucker is "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it".  Identifying males from females helps better estimate yields and production in Black Soldier Fly colonies. Identify them by their physical features is the primary way of sexing. You can only tell the sex of a Black Solider Fly once it has reached the end of its lifecycle and turns into the reproductive phase. This is the perfect time to estimate as you can either underproduce from...

 Throwing out leftover food scraps is never fun. A solution to this is having a composting area in your garden. Composting returns valuable nutrients to the soil to help maintain soil quality and fertility. But what to do if you don't have a garden or it's the winter ? Luckily a small little bug can help and they're called Black Soldier Flys. Black Soldier Flys are native to North America and are ferocious eaters. They start their lives off as very small 5-Dol (5 Day old) larvae worms. They eat twice their body weight every day over 6 weeks. At...