Best way to USE Japanese beetles

Problems with oriental or Japanese beetles? Turn them into animal feed! Great way of supplementing your chicken feed so you can be more self-sufficient.
Amazon links for the beetle traps
Trap 1: amzn.to/3bNLZ7c
Trap 2: amzn.to/3yL9ln8

[@sandysmith9764]

I had so many I froze them in freezer bags and had them all winter long to feed them. I called them green popsicle’s for the chickens 😂

[@katepaynedechavez]

That is disgustingly, amazingly clever. Love it!!! 🎉

[@Coolkid-1342]

NICE🎉

[@donnavorce8856]

Awesome idea. Thanks. I'll do that next spring. Cheers

[@ddaniel469]

You get an A++ for being a great chicken mom!

[@aerthman]

First time I sat my trap out the bag was totally full by days end. I feed mine to the catfish “pond chickens” AND the nasty bag comes mostly clean with a hose and nozzle spraying in a fan pattern. I like your idea of a smoothie rather than throwing them on the ground. 👍🏼

[@ericlawrence9060]

We get those beetles here in WI like CRAZY they eat nearly everything. We don't have chickens so we just knock them off into a large bucket and let them drown then bury them for fertilizer. I hate those bugs.

[@barnmetal3495]

My first year hens where snatching them out of mid air. Just hang the trap without the bag about 3-4 foot off the ground and the chickens take it from there, you don't have to touch anything all summer long. My birds on a hot summer day would dirt fluff in the shade under the bate trap and eat bugs all day.

[@JeffGray]

For me the chickens are pretty far away from the places the Japanese beetles are munching on leaves (orchard, garden, etc.). So I have to trap in one location and transport them to where the chickens are.

[@donnavorce8856]

Gotta love this networking. It's awesome. Thanks for sharing your experience and idea.

[@akzorz9197]

I have not laughed this hard at a garden video.. ever. Ty

[@universaluniverse8780]

What if you hung it inside your chicken coup, unzipped the bottom but had it hanging over a bucket of water so as they fall in, they eventually fall into the bucket of water and the chickens just go have a snack when they feel hungry?

[@donnavorce8856]

Damn great idea. Love it.

[@jpage1331]

That was my thoughts???

[@ivyz2741]

love your style! And simple solutions!

[@UncagedFighter]

This channel is pure gold. Subbed.

[@angel8fingers]

Does anybody else just want to hang out with this guy? Am I right or am I right?

[@lunabeta3516]

🤯That's alot of beetles. What a great idea. Thanks

[@lunabeta3516]

Gross but thanks.

[@kristinwood5191]

I’m so glad I found your channel!

[@kelcritcarroll]

Wild turkeys have been eating the tops of my bean plants because they have japanese beetles on them I discovered

[@brianhoppersr.3671]

Bobbing fpr beetles!

[@jasminequinones8521]

Brilliant idea!

[@lionelbanin]

You truly are a genius!

[@thorn9862]

Bobbing for beetles😝

[@KristyLeeVlogs]

Another awesome idea!

[@cisco5400]

Great idea, perhaps having the trap on top of bucket with water where the chickens are and have the botton un zipped. So all beetles go through the bag and directly land in the bucket. Then you dont need to move them?

[@kelcritcarroll]

That is awesome about the chickens because most birds dont seem to eat them

[@mindofmadness5593]

Starting my gardens on new property. My issue may be Stink Bugs. Moved here last Sept, saw the SB's and starting to see them now [[including the one I set my plate of Easter Ham on, well smelled it then saw what remianed.]]

[@ddaniel469]

Idk why this video made me so happy but it does 😁

[@gilflannigan3910]

My grandfather Moe, rest his beautiful soul loved to feed these beetles to his chickens. He passed away a few years back on his farm property out south. We all loved him anw were very close so it was a hard time for the whole Lester family 💔 He always trapped them in plastic bags and used milk jugs to have them fly into and fall in. One time i remember he harvested what must have been 20 thousand of those beetles. So many that his 30 chickens took more than a day to eat them. Smelt really really bad. Moe. r. Lester. Or as we just called him, Moe. rest in peace🙏❤❤❤

[@baldieman64]

Why not replace the bag with a pipe leading directly to the chickens? No need to empty the bag. No need to deal with re-sealing it.

[@JeffGray]

That would be assuming the chickens and the beetles are in the same location. However, the chickens are out in the pasture free ranging and the beetles are up near the gardens and orchard.

[@mfmr200]

cute chickens

[@threeowls369]

How old do your chickens have to be to eat them? FYI love 💕 your sound effects.

[@sharriceowens913]

Ur awesome

[@AJayK610-18]

What about your worm short video?? Were they maggots? I thought i could find it, but nope

[@FRWHELAN]

What do you do with the remaining....beetlejuice?

[@JeffGray]

Pour it into the chickens’ water. 😉

[@Pleurigloss]

Aw please come back to YT. Where are yoooouuu?

[@donnafoster2022]

Chicken sushi!

[@ichooselife1916]

More content!

[@carolecoyote960]

❤❤❤

[@katepaynedechavez]

Gratuitous beard scratching 😂

[@RonGay58]

Six of one, half a dozen of the other

[@nicholaspaz]

Have you heard of Dimethylformamide?

[@24mbronc]

Why did u mention this? Just curious

[@lunabeta3516]

Is there really a difference btwn a beetle trap and a fly trap? (Bags)

[@50dbo]

Big difference, different bait, different entrance to the trap

[@lunabeta3516]

@@50dbo ah thank you

[@sappir26]

Guineas will take care of all you Beatles if you raise them on your property. As long as you don't have neighbors close by, and you don't mind their noise, they can also be great watch dogs.

[@randallweaver3587]

I filled 13 of those bags during 2022! My chickens wouldn’t eat them!

[@albowrx]

did you feed right away to them? if you leave them until the bags get full chances are that theyre dead and smelly therefore them not eating them. Depending how fast they fill, I'd feed more often.

[@JeffGray]

@tubatuba Exactly. If they start to rot then chickens won’t eat them. Fresh and crawly is the way they like them.

[@transwomenaresexistmen]

I love animals and I love chickens but once I learned they love those beetles, I decided to get some chickens. Their run will be underneath the grape and Virginia creeper vines EAT THEM UP YUM

[@howardoller443]

These little stinkers attack my grapevines, but most of them pay with their lives.

[@allenwilson5235]

My eggs tasted like ribeye.

[@lunabeta3516]

😅Nice opening. 🤮🤣

[@raymondadrian5178]

Your intro got me wondering

[@kelcritcarroll]

I would empty it every two days as they avoid the bags yesif they really smell like their DEAD brethren

[@StaceyGriffin-nn7cq]

I toss the daily drowned beetles into the grass and my flock will eat them like that. No traps, just brushing into the jar of water with a bit of dawn.

[@50dbo]

You feed them beetles covered in dawn ?

[@novampires223]

Ewww, glad to be where they are not.. snails are bad enough..

[@thorn9862]

Disgusting, but good to know.