A         Breeding Container– This is the engine room of the system, housing crickets for breeding. This container contains the breeding trays which are used by crickets to lay their eggs. This container contains food and water bowls/dispensers and cartons to house the crickets.

B          Breeding Tray (close up)– has a mesh covered lid to prevent dirt from being thrown out.

C         Breeding Tray (end of container)-shows how the breeding tray is placed to opposite end to food.

D         Breeding trays in Incubation Container.

E          Pinheads– that have hatched within incubation container- breeding trays removed.

F          Pinheads are moved to grow out container each week. Repeat this for 5 weeks until pinheads are large in size. Typically one containers will have small crickets, two containers will have medium crickets and two will have large crickets.

G         5-10% of the crickets from the grow-out container are returned to breeding container to replenish breeding stock.

Conventional wisdom says that you place a container of soil or similar material (Breeding tray) in with a large container of crickets (Breeding container), which then lay their eggs into this material. You then move the breeding trays into an Incubation chamber and wait for the young crickets (pinheads) to hatch, which is normally around 11-14 days at 91 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius). To stop the eggs from dying you need to spray the soil every second day or so.

Every second day you move the crickets from the incubation chamber by tapping them to one end, and move them to a grow out container where they mature. All the crickets you collect over a week go into the same container and are from the same batch. You repeat this process every week for 5 weeks, which is the approximate time your first crickets have become adults. Of course you will need to do maintenance activities such as adding wet and dry food every second day, cleaning of containers to remove detritus etc.

Method 2- Low Maintenance Small Scale Cricket Breeding Method (Hobbyist, Small Scale Commercial)

How would you like to replace all the 7 containers described above and replace it with one container…yes just a single container. This new cricket breeding method:

• Needs no active management (No spraying, no rotating crickets etc);
• Collects waste for you;
• Only requires one container  (not 7 like conventional methods);
• Food/ water dispensers  which attends to your insects for 7-14 days or more;
• Requires only 3 minutes maintenance every 7-14 days (less time than standing in line at the pet store)
• Each 20 Gallon (70 L) breeding container can produce one container of adult crickets from a pet store each week.
• The average 2 child family can produce enough scrap vegies to feed 4 breeding containers, which is enough crickets to feed 4-12 bearded dragons (depending of feeding rate). That’s around $1400/year (Au) you are currently throwing away!!.

Introducing the most productive and low maintenance cricket breeding system in the world….the Zega Substrate Breeding System.

3) General Cricket Breeding Methods and FAQ

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• How a conventional cricket breeding system works
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• Cricket biology
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