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    This document outlines a project to implement black soldier fly breeding and use the larvae to produce chicken feed at Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute. It discusses using BSFL to manage waste, provides details on their life cycle and nutritional benefits. An experiment was conducted to determine ideal feeding and housing conditions. A "Grub Tub" structure was designed and recommendations were made to operate BSFL off-season and advocate for wider implementation. The project aimed to meet the protein needs of 45 chickens on site.

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    Implementation of Black Soldier Fly Breeding

    and Chicken Feed Production at Pickards


    Mountain Eco-Institute
    Neill Bullock, Emily Chapin, Blake Elder, Austin
    Evans, Matthew Givens, Nathan Jeffay, Betsy Pierce,
    Wood Robinson

    Spring 2013

    April 30th, 2013


    Outline
    • Waste Management and BSFL
    • BSFL 101
    • Project Planning
    • Experimental Design
    • Structure Setup at PMEI
    • Deliverables
    • Final Recommendations
    • Acknowledgment

    ` 1
    Waste Status Quo
    • Lagoon system from CAFOs
    • Major environmental and health issue
    • Smithfield Settlement

    Image http://www.doveimaging.com/picturelibrary/hurricanefloyd.html Image taken by Matt Givens 2


    Black Soldier Fly Larvae

    3
    BSFL: Closing the loop

    Animal Feed Animal Waste

    4
    BSFL: Closing the loop

    Animal Feed Animal Waste

    Compost BSFL

    5
    The Client

    • "Healing the Human-Earth Relationship


    through Earth Literacy and Local Economy"
    • Educational sustainable farm
    • Raise chickens, cows, bunnies, and horses

    Image from pickardsmountain.org


    6
    BSFL 101 - Life Cycle

    7
    BSFL as Biological tools
    • Waste Management
    o Nitrogen reductions up to 25%
    o Overall mass reductions of 56%

    • Animal feed
    o Swine, chickens, catfish
    o Nutritional content

    8
    BSFL as Biological Tools cont.
    • Pest Control

    • House flies and blow flies


    o Oviposition prevention
    o Larval competition

    9
    Project Planning: PMEI Visit
    • Met with the clients at PMEI
    • Set project goals:
    o Meet the protein supplement need of 45 chickens
    o Off-season production?

    10
    BSFL Experiment
    • Goal: Determine conditions and resources
    necessary to breed Black Soldier Flies
    indoors
    • ~100 BSFL ordered online,
    feeding begins
    o High mortality

    11
    Redesign
    • Reevaluation: focus on feeding first,
    breeding later
    • Experimental Design
    o Vary food sources
    o Maintaining constant temperature and humidity

    12
    Experimental Results
    • Observations
    o Food scrap/coffee: largest
    o Coffee: most active
    o Food scraps: burrowed under tape

    • Greenhouse temp highly variable: 57-108 oF


    • Humidity maintained close to optimal (50%)

    13
    Structure Design: "Grub Tub"
    Basics:
    • Structure & Design
    • Scale

    14
    Structure Design: "Grub Tub"

    Source: Newton, G.L. et al. (2005) Black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens, as a manure management/resource recovery tool 15
    Structure Design: "Grub Tub"

    http://www.thebiopod.com/page http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Home
    s/pages/products.html made_black_soldier_fly_bins/

    http://www.redwormcomposting.com/the-
    share-board/vermimans-diy-bsfl-bin/ 16
    Structure Design: "Grub Tub"

    17
    Structure Design: "Grub Tub"
    Final Design:
    • Small dish tub (1x1.5 ft) with tubing
    extended
    • Shed near chickens to protect from weather

    18
    Deliverables
    • How-To-Guide for BSFL
    production in the
    Piedmont bio-region
    • Poster to be presented
    at the Association for
    Environmental Studies
    and Sciences 2013
    conference
    • Grub Tub
    • Final report with
    complete account of
    research
    19
    Final Recommendations
    • Off-season BSFL operation

    • Advocacy for implementation

    • Closed system vs. Natural breeding

    20
    Acknowledgements
    • Clients: the Tobens, John Mattox
    • Advisors: Elizabeth Shay, Susan Caplow
    • Wes Watson
    • Buttercup and Daisy
    • The chickens
    • Kofi the dog

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    References
    “Black soldier fly larvae”. Photo. Sustainablog.org. August 2011.
    http://sustainablog.org/2011/08/composting-food-scraps-black-soldier-fly-larvae/

    “Black soldier fly pupae”. Photo. Helpfulgardener.com November 2012.


    http://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49346

    "BSF Egg Clusters". Photo. Blacksoldierflyfarming.com


    http://www.blacksoldierflyfarming.com/galleries/category/9-bsf-egg-clusters

    Karim, Muhammad Mahdi. “Black soldier fly”. Photo. Micro2macro.net January 2009.
    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_soldier_fly.jpg

    Newton, L., Sheppard, C., Watson, W., Burtle, G., Dove, R. Using the Black Soldier Fly, Hermetia
    illucens, as a value-added tool for the management of swine manure. June 6, 2005.

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