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Get a 5 gallon bucket with holes in the bottom -- about one inch round. Suspend it from the ground by a few feet. Put the road kill in. Cover top to keep out scavengers. Let the maggots fall to the ground.

Oh yeah, you need chickens.

Chickens eat maggots and make eggs -- the best quality and more portable, sanitary and safe protein there is.

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Cool idea----my chickens thank you! Probably be a good idea to put the bucket bucket down wind!!

Ideally, it would be nice for the eggs to be free. I fear for the birds if he becomes difficult to obtain corn. You can supplement calcium, and with roadkill, protein. But, there are other things they need.

We may possibly have deterred some predators. We have to lock up at night and have been lucky once or twice with no visits. A raccoon was run over right in front of the house. That was doubly gratifying.

Ideally, it would be nice for the eggs to be free. I fear for the birds if he becomes difficult to obtain corn. You can supplement calcium, and with roadkill, protein. But, there are other things they need.

We planted a bunch of corn for our chickens. They love it!

We may possibly have deterred some predators. We have to lock up at night and have been lucky once or twice with no visits. A raccoon was run over right in front of the house. That was doubly gratifying.


We free range ours and they come back to the coop at night. So far no predator has gotten to them. (knocking on wood)

You want me to eat, WUT?!?

I never thought about it much for chickens since they're so proficient at bugs in general but I've been doing this for years over my fish pond to feed the blue gill . I use one of those nylon mesh onions shipping bags and tie it to a pole over the water---mostly put squirrels in it but occasionally a cotton tail--no road kill for MY fish! I've had a few swallows and bats get stuck in it but the maggots eventually take them as well.

My brother lived in BFE and had chickens running around.

If they ever breed silent chickens, I'm going to buy me a few. One of the drawbacks of living in a neighborhood.

Dude, help me out here. I read somewhere about using cantilope for raising maggots. I tried it and my cantilope turned into a moldy soup. The reason behind cantilope was the smell wont be as bad as if you used meat. The maggots also have a smell, and they wont smell as bad either if you use the cantilope.

I just cut up some cantilope and put it into a metal popcorn can and drilled some holes are the top so the flys can get it. But like I said, it just turned into a soup. I saw some little maggots swimming around but it was not what I was hoping for.

My old man said just buy a dead chicken and hang it up by the legs, and put a bucket underneath and theyll just fall right in. I live in a condo,soooo.... that idea is not very neighbor friendly, and Im sure one of the old Nazi jews living here will taddle on me.

Id like to be able to produce enough maggots to fish with. Perch season opens again in August.

I borrowed this from another forum. This one guy cuts out the middle man, err chicken/fish.






Speaking of eating "Road Kill", one time during cold weather, I came home on my daily commute. There was nothing on the country highway as the sun went down. The next morning before sunrise, on my return to work commute, there was a nice road kill White Tail Deer doe laying in the middle of the road. I felt sure it wound be fresh, yes tenderized, but fresh. Unfortunately, I had to get to work on time that day due to a project deadline, or else I'd have loaded it up, turned around, and gone home to butcher it out.

It’s just a guess on my part, but I think that you also needed a few small holes in the bottom to let the soupy part run out. The remaining rotten fleshy part would probably be ideal for the maggots.

I can recommend the 'Shake 'n Bake Snake' or the 'Smear of Dear', bon apetit!