The Complete Cricket Breeding Manual

Please note people who have access to this content (Partners and consultancy clients) can also access the information in Part 4- Commercial Production (Standard).

15.0 General

15.1 Large Scale Cricket Breeding Methods

15.2 Marketing Tips (Coming soon)

16.0 Farm Design

16.1 Summary of farm Design

16.2 Insect Farm Design Concepts

16.3 Estimating Insect Container Numbers

16.4 Estimating Cricket Production Rates

16.5 Breeding Stock for Cricket Farming

17.0 Case Studies

17.1 Cast Study 1

17.2 Case Study 2

17.3 Case Study 3

18.0 Electricity Usage

18.0 Electricity Usage from 20 Foot Caravan

19.0 Automated Dispensers (Food & Water)

19.0 Automated Food and Water Dispensers

20..0 Diseases

20.1 Cricket Diseases

20.2 Causes of Mass Deaths

photo of a large cricket farm in a warehouse. Long isle in the center with hundreds of red cricket containers on shelves on both sides.

Part 6- General

12.0 Other Insect Breeding Resources

Breeding Other Species

12.1 Mealworm Breeding Learning Center

12.2 Cockroach Breeding Learning Center

12.3 Soldier Fly Breeding Learning Center

12.4 Commercial Learning Center

Other Insect Breeding Books

12. 5 Crickets and Cockroaches

Other

12.6 Partnerships and Consultancy

13.0 Reptile Husbandry

Feeding Insects

13.1 Balanced Diet for Reptiles

13.2 Reptile Meat Mix Recipe

13.3 How often to Feed a Bearded Dragon

1634 Bearded dragon Diet

13.5 Gut Load and Dusting Insects

Husbandry

13.6 How Do I Heat My Reptile

13.7 Thermometers for my Reptile

Glossary and Appendix

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List of Tables and Diagrams

Part 1- Choosing a Breeding Method and Introduction

Table 1- Advantages and disadvantages between Breeding Crickets and Cockroaches

Table 2- Conversion between Imperial and Metric Units

Diagram 2.3- Anatomy of a Cricket

Part 2- General Techniques- For Both Breeding Methods

Table 3- Growth Rates

Figure 3.3- Air Flow through a Container

Table 4- Design Summary for Constructing a Container- Efficient Method

Table 5- Detailed Instructions Constructing a Container- Efficient Method

Table 6- Nutritional Comparison between Different Dry Food Types

Table 7- Making a Food Tray

Table 8 How to Make a Small Scale Food Dispenser

Table 9- Making a Large Scale Food Dispenser

Table 10- Making a Large Scale Water Dispenser

Table 11- Making a Large Scale Water Dispenser with Pebbles

Table 12- Temperature Ranges for Crickets

Table 13- Cleaning Food and Water Dispensers

Table 14- Making an Ant Guard for Power Cords

Table 15- Grading Crickets

Table 16- Counting Crickets- Large Scale

Table 17- Transport Methods

Part 3- Small Scale Cricket Breeding

Figure 9.1- Diagrammatic Representation of a Substrate Breeding System

Table 18- How to Make a Substrate System

Table 19- Removal of Detritus from a Substrate System

Table 20- Maintenance Schedule for a Substrate System

Part 4- Large Scale Cricket Breeding

Figure 10.1- Diagram of a Batch Breeding System

Table 21- Summary of a Batch Breeding System

Table 22- Detailed Instructions to Make a Batch System

Table 23- How to Make Food and Water Dispenser for a Pinhead Grow out Container

Table 24- Cleaning a Batch System (No Substrate)

Authors Notes (not available)

Table 25- Maintenance Schedule for a Batch System

12.0 Other

11.7 Authors Notes (not available)

11.8 Cricket Template

The Complete Cricket Breeding Manual

Videos

General Methods and Zega Substrate Method

Part 1- Getting Started (Must Read)

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1.0 Introduction

Part 2- General Techniques (Hobbyist and Commercial)

2.0 Biology

3.0 Housing (Containers, Storage)

4.0 Food Requirements

5.0 Food and Water Dispensers

6.0 Climate (Temperature, Humidity etc)

7.0 Pest and Disease

Part 3- Small Scale Cricket Breeding (Hobbyist)

8.0 Zega Substrate Breeding System (Small Scale Production)

Part 4- Commercial Production (Standard)

9.0 Batch Breeding System (Large Scale Production)

10.0 General

11.0 Production

12.0 Selling

13.0 Marketing

14.0 Consultancy & Partnerships

Part 5- Commercial Production- (Advanced-Large Scale)- Partners/Consultancy Access Only