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#533903 04/14/2021 7:36 PM
by jim100
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I made the mistake of suggesting to my wife and daughter that I wanted to try the dead animal (road kill) on a coarse screen over the pond to feed the fish maggots that fall into the water.
Cant remember where I read about this method. Oh yeah it was here! They both looked at me like I was sick in the head and promptly vetoed anything like it. Not a "well lets talk about it" Nothing.
Flat out veto with threats!
Damn.
jim
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#533907 Apr 14th a 08:36 PM
by Quarter Acre
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Here's a couple I know of...

https://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=503702

https://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=123254
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#533904 Apr 14th a 08:22 PM
by Jim Wetzel
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I have attempted it with raccoons, opossums and armadillos my dogs kill. Instead of fish, chickens where the consumers. A problem was the juices dripped out of the carcass too quickly as did the maggots before mature resulting in about half of the carcasses mummifying rather than converted into edible biomass. If I were to do it again, then carcasses would be placed on a cookie sheet with a little soil added. The maggots would then stay with carcass until the final instar before moving away from carcass to pupate. Then they fall to ground to be consumed. You want to keep carrion beetles away as they eat most of the maggots. Having carcass elevated reduces odds the carrion beetles will start working carcass.

Consider doing Black Soldier Flies as they can grow on a mix that is based on plant offal.
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