Step 1:
Get any plastic open container. Size should be according to quantity
of maggots you want to make.
Step 2:
Get any substrate that are non-smelly like Rice bran, wheat offal,
pkc, maize shaft from akamu, cassava shaft.
These materials serves as bedding and substrate for the flies to lay
their eggs.
Step 3:
Mix some quantity of water with sugar or molasses, then allow the
mixture to stay for 24 hours covering it in a cool dry place and,
Step 4:
Mix this water mixture with any substrate you have chosen till it
forms a mesh. Don’t waterlog the substrate. Leave the plastic containing the
substrate in an isolated place, so no much disturbance.
Step 5:
After 3 days you will notice lots of flies around the plastic
containing the substrate, but before then, make sure, daily you wet the mixture
by sprinkling water to the content, so it remains in a mesh form.
Note: Once the
content is dry...flies will only eat from the substrate and not lay eggs. This
will cause the system to produce very little or no maggots.
Step 6:
After 5 days you will notice lots of white clutches of materials at
different parts inside the mesh mixture. These are fly eggs.
So at beginning of day 6, close up the open part of the plastic with
a mosquito net so that nothing goes in or out of the system...But sprinkling of
water daily is important.
Step 7:
Remember that the plastic should be kept in a cool place. Some level
of shade like under a plantain or banana trees or any trees that form some
level of shade...to avoid direct sunlight heating up the system, could crash it.
Step 8:
Harvesting can start from day 7 till day 12 depending on the size of
fish or animal you want to feed. You can harvest by getting salt in warm water
in a bucket.
Usually maggots will stay under the layers of the substrate. So use
a Parker to get out the first layer...Then get the maggots with the substrate
and pour them in a different container.
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